Kordan the Wizard by David Nos

Author:David Nos
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RebelBooksPress.com
Published: 2023-01-14T00:00:00+00:00

Kordan’s immediate attention went to the Princess. “Alicanth, are you alright?”

“Yes, you had some kind of barrier all around us. I’ve never seen anything like it. You saved us,” she said, as she jumped off her horse ran to Kordan and threw her arms around him.

“Alicanth you should have left, the larger the spell, the less chance of it holding, you could have been injured or killed,” said Kordan.

“I couldn’t leave you,” said the Princess. “I...I couldn’t. I heard Stelth and you speak and then you and the dragon just stared at each other as if you were talking. He spoke and flew away.”

Kordan took her hand. It was trembling. He looked at the guards and said, “Please escort the Princess back to the castle. There are a few things I must look into.”

Alicanth started to protest, and Kordan interrupted. “No Princess, you must return where you are safe. I must try to find answers to what happened. I need to understand why Stelth stopped his attack and did not kill us. I will see you in the morning.”

That night back in his room, Kordan prepared to perform a ritual which would allow him to project his spirit form back to Peltor’s Temple and library. He needed to research and understand what had happened between him and Stelth.

Sitting in a chair, he found it difficult to clear his mind. All his thoughts were of Alicanth. Her face, the wind in her hair, the tone of her voice. How his incantation weakened. If that had failed, she would have been injured or killed. The thought made him wince painfully.

Slowly he cleared his mind and started reciting the incantation “a corpore io animum ad spiritum” over and over. Kordan began to feel his spirit traveling and in a matter of seconds he was inside the library of Peltor’s Temple. Something didn’t feel right, he felt thin and kept fading in and out. He tried concentrating harder to hold his spirit in place. The spell was taxing him. It took all his energy to hold himself in place. He moved quickly before he lost his connection altogether. He located the book he was looking for and levitated it over to a table. Once there he used his mind to open the book and turn the pages. Every time he used more power he would blink in and out. He could feel himself slipping back. He read the pages and understood now what had taken place between he and Stelth and what it implied. He also now understood why there were so few dragons and wizards. “We are dying,” he thought.

He had finished and none too soon. He faded out of the Temple Library and woke up in his room. He was drenched in sweat and exhausted. He got up from his chair and staggered over to his bed and collapsed. “I’m falling in love with Alicanth, and I’m losing my powers.” Those were his last thoughts before he passed out.

Deep in the forest, laying among the fallen leaves, a stone figure began to glow.

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