Bastial Steel (The Rhythm of Rivalry: Book 2) by B.T. Narro

Author:B.T. Narro [Narro, B.T.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2013-08-21T00:00:00+00:00

The land in Zav wasn’t too different from that in Goldram. The hills were sparse, grass came in either small patches or vast fields, and sightings of other people were limited to about one or two a day.

Lysha had explained that there weren’t any small towns along the route she’d chosen. Because their group was more than two, they were likely to be met with aggression.

With war starting up again, spies were on the move. When their identities were revealed, they would relocate, meaning trouble often would follow them. People knew this, so they didn’t treat strangers too kindly.

“That’s what happens when four territories have touching borders,” Cleve remembered Danvell saying. He’d recently learned more about the history of Greenedge from Lysha and Jek. He’d already heard that desmarls had taken over both the north and south, pushing everyone to the center of the continent, but he never would’ve guessed it was the fault of Humans that it had happened.

Back when people slept in huts, insects were a big annoyance and an even bigger issue for their crops. But there was a simple solution: desmarls. Back then, desmarls were small, not growing bigger than a hand. Just like now, they produced Sartious Energy clouds, and they ate only meat, meaning they didn’t kill the plants around them.

Most people either lived in the north or the south, and they bred and traded desmarls, making them a form of currency. Over hundreds of years, the desmarls thrived with Human assistance, growing much larger and more quickly, and producing many offspring. But by the time it became clear that Humans were being attacked, it was already too late.

There were too many of the creatures to fight against then, so the Humans battled their way through the less dense clusters of desmarls to the middle of the continent, leaving the north and south to the beasts. It was how the term “common tongue” came to be. There were several languages before then. But when everyone came together, common tongue took over as the main language.

“Why didn’t people fight back against the desmarls and clear them out while they were still small?” Cleve had asked after Lysha and Jek finished telling the story.

“People weren’t powerful enough,” Lysha answered. “They couldn’t fight what they couldn’t see.”

“How do you fight against desmarls now, then?”

Cleve looked to Jek, hoping he wasn’t eliciting any traumatizing memories for the mage. Cleve couldn’t tell by Jek’s calm expression.

“Mages can blow the Sartious Energy out of the way with Bastial wind. Or if they’re Sartious mages like me, there’s plenty we can do. The desmarls produce it, but they can’t manipulate it once it’s in the air. With enough time and caution, we can slowly make our way toward their bodies, which is when the archers finish them with arrows.”

“That’s how you killed each of them?” Cleve asked.

Jek seemed lost in thought for a moment. “There was too much chaos for me to really know what we did to kill the first desmarl.

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