Magium by Chris Michael Wilson

Author:Chris Michael Wilson [Wilson, Chris Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

“There you are!” Melindra says, once we all get within hearing range of her. “Just in time. Tell me, are you all ready to begin our adventure?”

“If by adventure, you mean waiting in line for an hour, then yes,” Daren says, as he points towards the city’s northern gate.

There seem to be at least a few dozen groups of people currently lined up on the main road leading to the northern gate. Some of them are just travellers, like us, but most of them appear to be merchants, with carts full of wares that need to be inspected one by one by the guards at the city’s exit, before they are allowed to pass through the gate. Judging by how long it’s taking the guards to inspect each cart, I’d say that Daren’s estimation might actually be a bit optimistic. We’re probably going to be stuck here for a lot longer than one hour.

“Ah, yes,” Melindra says, as she takes a glance towards the very long line of carts in front of her. “I forgot that the northern gate is primarily used by merchants in this city. It would have been so much nicer if they actually made more than one gate on their northern wall, to solve their traffic problems.”

“More gates means more vulnerable areas that need to be protected,” Daren says. “It would not be a good idea in times such as these, when monster attacks are rampant. Let’s just line up like all the others. The sun is barely up, so we’ll have plenty of time to travel even if we waste another hour in this city.”

“Actually, I have a better idea,” Melindra says. “We’ll be taking a shortcut!”

“A shortcut?” Hadrik asks, confused. “You mean, like an underground tunnel, or…”

“Oh, no, no…” Melindra says, with a smile. “I wasn’t talking about a tunnel.”

She then snaps her fingers, and we all begin to slowly get raised into the air, higher and higher, as I feel several currents of air moving around me, in a similar fashion to how they used to move when I was using air magic to fly, during my battle with the skeleton stillwaters.

“No way…” Daren says, as we keep getting raised higher into the air. “You’re not seriously considering doing this, are you?”

“Doing what?” Melindra says, with a coy smile.

“Don’t play dumb with me!” Daren says. “You’re going to fly us over that whole damn wall! Are you out of your mind? This is against the law! Those guards stationed on the wall are going to start shooting at us the moment we go over them!”

“So, what?” Melindra says. “You’re a white mage and an enchanter, aren’t you? You can just use that shield of yours to create a barrier around us, and we’ll be fine.”

“I don’t have any barrier spells that deflect regular arrows!” Daren shouts.

“Wait, seriously?” Melindra says, while raising an eyebrow.

“And besides, that’s not the point!” Daren says. “We don’t want to make this whole city into our enemy just because we were too lazy to wait in line!”

“You don’t?” Melindra asks.

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