Dragon's Chosen Mate by Riley Storm

Author:Riley Storm [Storm, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: High House Press
Published: 2020-02-19T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Altair

He lay still for several moments, contemplating everything that had just happened.

First, his plan had worked.

The many hours of research had finally paid off. It had taken him some time to figure out just what it was that Master Erlinger had done so differently, that had allowed her to single-handedly banish a demon lord back to the Abyss. Given that only a handful of people had witnessed it, and the exact actions had occurred within the span of a few seconds, it hadn’t been easy. Piecing together the information from accounts that were three-hundred years old had been tedious, to say the least.

Eventually, he’d figured out that she must have breached its skin somehow. The physical form demons took on the mortal plane were incredibly tough, and no matter how much energy he flung at it, nothing worked. That was when he’d stumbled upon a bit of information that tickled his mind into thinking about attacking from a different direction. Inside.

And if it worked on this demon, it should work on a demon lord. They’re apparently not much different, other than size, strength and speed.

The second thing that Altair contemplated, was the sound of footsteps heading his direction. He wasn’t alone in the chamber as he’d expected to be. Who else was there? It was supposed to be unmanned this late in the day; he’d checked the schedule.

The spell that bound him to immobility faded as the arena finished shutting down, telling him that he was no longer ‘dead’, as the simulation viewed it.

He glanced around as the landscape disappeared, revealing nothing but the empty, flat arena.

And Christine.

Damn. Why her?

Getting to his feet, he brushed his clothes off from where he’d been lying.

“Can I help you?” he asked, stealing the initiative before she’d had a chance to speak.

She sputtered in surprise, trying to both answer him and speak whatever line she’d had ready to go. It tripped her up so badly, that nothing but a bunch of gibberish came out of her mouth.

“Do go on,” he said, earning himself a glare that would have pinned him to the wall several hundred feet away if it had been a physical thing.

“What the heck was that, Altair?” she finally got out.

He shrugged. “That was me testing a theory. Nothing more.”

“A theory. So, like, an experiment?” she asked, hands on her hips, staring up at him incredulously.

“Yes. Precisely like that. You told me this place was designed to replicate the real world. To mimic how creatures from the Abyss act and react, based on all knowledge over hundreds of years.”

Christine nodded. “It’s a lot of work, so many spells cast atop one another, records being updated with each new encounter. It’s one of the biggest drains on our resources. But that doesn’t matter to what you just did. I saw you, Altair. I watched you.”

“Well I didn’t ask you to spy on me,” he fired back.

“What did you scream at the end there?” she asked softly, her anger fading. “Talk to me, Altair.

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