Bone Lord 5 by Dante King

Author:Dante King [King, Dante]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

I gazed into the crystalline pool near our camp and took a good look at my reflection. I was wearing the same gear I’d been wearing way back when I’d first set out on this journey: my trusty lightweight assassin’s armor. As it had been when I’d stepped into the crypt from which I’d freed Isu’s spirit, Grave Oath was in its sheath on my hip.

The only visual differences now were the Tree God’s mini crossbow on my wrist, the Dragon Gauntlets on my hands, and the Dragon Sword strapped to my back. The rugged-featured face staring back at me from the mirror-like surface of the water was the same, but a new vigor and determination burned brightly in the eyes that stared back at me.

I was going back to my roots for this final mission, but I would never be the same. How could I, now that I was not only the God of Death, but on the verge of becoming the ruler of all the other gods?

“We’re ready to march, Lord Vance,” Rollar interrupted these thoughts of mine. “Well, fly.”

“All right, Rollar,” I said. “I’ll be with you all shortly.”

I bent down and took a long drink of the cool, clear water, then walked over to my party. The sun was setting, and its reflection burned like magma, shimmering in brilliant hues of orange and red on the surface of the mountain lake.

I closed my eyes, but saw no darkness behind my eyelids. Instead, I saw the world through the eyes of Talon, leading my army of undead harpies. In their hundreds, the undead beasts swooped in an enormous loop, a circle that, from afar, would have looked like boiling storm clouds over the distant ocean. Now that the sun was setting and darkness would soon fall, I was ready to fly the army over harpies in from the sea and bring them onto land under cover of night.

In preparation for the pickup, my party and I had hiked up into some nearby mountains. The harpies would pick up my party members and fly them through the night across the land. They would roost during the day, and my party would sleep, and keep flying every night until they reached Brakith, which would take a few days.

I, on the other hand, would be heading off in another direction. Riding on Fang with me would be Friya and Yumo-Rezu, the only two members of my party who would be accompanying me on the mission to Luminescent Spires. We needed stealth and cunning to break into the deepest and most secure vaults of Luminescent Spires. I would have ventured there on my own if I hadn’t needed the pair of them to resurrect the dragon once I obtained the Dragon Heart.

When I looked at the group of people assembled in front of me, my heart swelled with pride. These men and women had been with me through thick and thin. Not once had any of them ever given me any less than their very best.

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