Desolation by Jarod Meyer

Author:Jarod Meyer [Meyer, Jarod]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Autumn Arch Publishing
Published: 2019-03-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter eleven

The Field of Souls

Nearly dropping the crate she was carrying, Angelica felt as if someone was pinching her chest. The feeling couldn’t possibly have stemmed from her work. The pain seemed to attack her almost violently. She decided that a break would do her some good. Sitting along the side of the street, her eyes began to wander along the new sites that the city of Ovaria held. Its onyx buildings, sharp and sleek, stretched into the sky. The stab hit her again, and her concern grew.

Angelica rubbed her chest, gingerly, looking up to see one of the postings that she had seen a hundred times already in Helios. It was a war council decree that all Archonian souls be moved Ovaria, so the armies of Valhalla were not divided in their defense.

Angelica volunteered to aid in the relocating process. Being a healer, she was as close as you could be to being in the military without actually joining. The whole week since William had departed on his latest mission, she and the other volunteers kept busy stocking the Obelisk city with accommodations. The entire populous of Archonia would be crammed into one city. For the sake of morale, they would need to be kept comfortable.

Ovaria was the only clear choice because the last remaining obelisk stood here providing the world with its small amount of protection. The walls of the city were already being fortified to a ridiculous proportion. All of Archonia’s foremost builders, and even its finest projectors, were working day and night to make an impenetrable fortress. Even the souls that made the sun rise and imitated the weather had come, using their power for more pragmatic purposes. Their aid in the building of the fortress meant that the normally pristine blue sky was replaced by a sea of yellowed clouds. A dimness now hung over the days and nights, never the light or the darkness of the normal cycles.

Walls went up around even the tallest structures of the city, and eventually they would enclose the obelisk in a hive-like cocoon.

Radiant energy still hummed from the great stone pillar in the center of the city. Angelica looked up at the Obelisk, admiring the handy work of the great Archon Ammun. The stone rose to the sky like a long teardrop, its pinnacle reaching above the tallest buildings. The constant sea-foam green energy pulsed steadily away from the shimmering onyx monolith.

The pain in her chest faded momentarily as she watched the energy flow freely from the ancient Obelisk. But then a new stab cut in as the light flickered. She quickly looked away, assessing the surrounding crowd. Nobody seemed to have noticed the momentary flux.

Did I just imagine that?

Rising, Angelica picked up the crate full of supplies quickly moving toward her destination with her head to the ground. Fear prevented her from looking at the great stone pillar again. Instead, she looked past it to another Ovarian building that loomed to its right. The tall black and gold structure appeared square and deliberate.

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