Dragon Rage (Blood of the Ancients Book 10) by Dan Michaelson & D.K. Holmberg

Author:Dan Michaelson & D.K. Holmberg [Michaelson, Dan & Holmberg, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2023-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Rob was tired. He’d been working with Netheral for the better part of an entire day. At that time, he felt a growing awareness of Netheral, which he knew was there to begin with, but it wasn’t just the awareness of Netheral; it was also an understanding of him. That left Rob unsettled because he didn’t know if he wanted an understanding of that power. And he didn’t know if such a thing was even safe for him to do. Having empathy for something like Netheral, something that did everything Netheral had done, left him and his people, he suspected, in danger. It meant Netheral was corrupting him differently than he corrupted others, and probably differently than he corrupted the ice king.

Rob hovered above the land and used the opportunity to make sense of what was down there. Everything seemed so small from above. He felt the different essences, and smatterings of isolated powers, though the unification he formed across the land seemed to have blended their boundaries. Rob had shifted things, so everything blurred together. Over time, Rob hoped things would continue changing, and the people would continue working together.

Wasn’t that what he wanted?

And he thought it was necessary, but why would it be destructive? Maybe it wasn’t.

The essence Rob commanded was destructive, at least in how Netheral taught him to use it, but that didn’t mean essence was destructive. The lands were interconnected at once, and Rob remembered how that interconnectedness was essential for life from the essence of memories. That was the reason people survived in otherwise uninhabitable places.

That thought gave him hope.

Maybe Netheral wasn’t trying to tear away his hope, but he couldn’t help but feel like Netheral knew the implications of what he was teaching. Netheral had to know Rob would find the destruction unappealing and that teaching Rob about those instructions and about how the essence could tear things apart, would lead Rob to a place he didn’t want to go.

But he also couldn’t deny the fact that the essence Netheral was teaching him had helped him gain more power than he had before. He understood how to unify the essence in a new way. Before, Rob used one after another, and while that might be essential for what he’d need to do, helping him learn how to use the individual essence, the unification had its own power.

Destructive power, he reminded himself.

And that was the problem. Rob couldn’t help but feel like that destructive power was the issue for him, as he only felt the energy when he unified them. He didn’t want to. Rob wanted to blend power in a healthy, wholesome way, but he wasn’t sure that was possible, given everything he’d done. Maybe there was no unification without destruction.

Rob hated to believe that and hated that it meant Netheral might be right.

As he floated, he drifted above the icy northern realm, reminded of when he faced Netheral. Every so often, when he visited that part of the realm, he could still feel the effect of Netheral’s attack.

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