Battle Mage Broken Empire by Donald Wigboldy

Author:Donald Wigboldy [Wigboldy, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-12T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18- Passing the Test

Holdy sensed the signal stone had been crushed, but the apprentice waited to bring the hunters back. He had been walking with his mother and uncle from his mansion to the open building that wasn't rented. As Poultus had warned him, the second building was quite messy with supplies scattered throughout the building. Crates were stacked in a garage space under the house. More could be found in the rooms upstairs that were meant to be bedrooms. If his uncle ever planned to rent this house again, it would take some time to empty the heavily filled rooms.

His uncle hadn't said much when the boy left a pair of lodestones in the back room of his house. Holdy had said that they were markers for his magic and the older man had left it at that. Since Poultus knew nothing of magic, it was less important to explain; though the apprentice thought it was a simple enough concept even if the other man had no ability in magic.

Like he had done in the mansion, Holdy had dropped another pair of lodestones in the largest room of the second building. As a living room space, it was at the front of the house, while the crowded bedrooms would be in the way if he used them for his project. The stones would act as a beacon for him when he needed them, so Holdy performed another bit of magic and created a portal door.

"I'll see you both later. This will take a little while," the apprentice started forward and another idea came to mind. He reached into the pouch which had held the prepared lodestones before pulling out two of the soft kind. "Keep these with you. If there's trouble, I can return to where you break them. Try to not open it where I'd run into someone. This magic has actually killed people opening in the wrong place and I will likely be blinded for a few seconds as I come through also."

They looked at him curiously, but the apprentice didn't have time to go over it more. Hopefully there would be no more orc attacks anytime soon or other dangers to his family, but the doorway was being held by his magic still and he couldn't hold it open forever after all.

Holdy stepped through knowing the other side of this doorway was an unfamiliar place to him.

It took only a short time for the boy's senses to catch up and he shivered. Turning around, a mountain rose up behind him but to the south the hills gently rolled into the distance. To the west, Holdy thought that he could make out some buildings. Since he hadn't chosen to go very far, there had been some danger to opening this gate.

This was the mountain which held Ensolus inside of it. The opening to the cave city was over a mile away, but the bend of the stone obscured the outer fortifications. To the east, he could make out one of the scout towers.

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