Conrad Edison and the First Power_Urban Fantasy by John Corwin

Author:John Corwin [Corwin, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Raven House
Published: 2018-02-06T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

The fear in Ambria's voice froze me to the core. "What's happened?"

"A woman just slit a man's throat in the hallway, and a dozen thugs are waiting outside the ballroom door!"

Mournful howls sent chills down my spine. Huge forms flashed through the curtains on the other side of the room. Claws flashed and cut down the nearest Arcane. Screams. Shouts. Arcanes rose to their feet. Spells flashed and blood splashed. Arcanes fell before the massive werewolves.

"Edison betrayed us!" One of the Arcanes swung his wand toward me. Galfandor punched the man in the face and shoved him away. A mottled lycan sprang on the man's back and bit his head. Blood sprayed.

I focused Fireblade and slashed the head off the lycan. My vision faltered and my knees went weak. I still hadn't recovered from all the magic use in the fight against the wandslingers.

"Try the bloody windows!" Geron shouted above the fray, even as he fired bolts of jagged green light at the lycans.

Galfandor threw a chair against one of the windows. Glass shattered. We ran over and looked out, but it was a three-story fall to concrete.

"We might have to jump," Galfandor said. "Use a levitation spell."

"Well, Geron, it appears your little venture has been nipped in the bud." We turned. Lycans growled before a tight circle of wounded Arcanes. Melinda stood near the door, a smirk on her face. "Did you not think Victus could infiltrate your pathetic little Night Watch?"

"Are you an infernus?" Geron said.

"I am. The real Melinda rots in a mass grave." She put hands on hips. "And now, I rip you stem and root from the ground." Melinda thrust her hand forward.

The lycans pounced. Explosions shook the room and plaster dust rained down as Arcanes responded with shields and spells. Geron put a hand on Galfandor's shoulder. "Get the boy out of here. If we survive this, I'll contact you."

"I won't leave you all behind." Galfandor whirled his wand in a pattern I didn't recognize and unleashed a torrent of silver flames on the lycans. The wolves howled in pain, but Arcanes still died.

I summoned all my willpower, but it refused to coalesce into a spell. Melinda's gloating smirk settled on me. "I will take you alive, child. Your father has plans for you. He—" Her back arched. Blood spewed from her mouth and she went down in a heap. Ambria stood behind her, wand glowing with malevolent energy.

"Why am I not surprised to see her?" Galfandor pulled me along the wall, avoiding the bloodbath in the middle of the room. When we reached the other side, he pushed me toward Ambria. "Go with her, Conrad. I can't leave my companions."

"You can't!" I shouted. "We need you."

"Duty is an oath." Galfandor turned back to the fray and blasted a lycan with a gout of silver flames.

Ambria dragged me out of the room. My legs and arms felt limp as wet noodles.

"We've got to go." She looked up and down the hallway. "I think there are more people on the way.

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