Mortal Gods by Benjamin Medrano

Author:Benjamin Medrano
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2019-07-07T22:00:00+00:00

“What did you say?” Isalla asked, her fingers trembling as she held onto the table.

“Kitania is in the Forest of Sighs,” Rose repeated carefully, stepping closer as she continued. “I’m not sure of her exact circumstances, but she’s alive and well, and the elves are fairly sure that she hasn’t been mistreated. They said something about her being a guest.”

“I… that’s wonderful! I was starting to wonder… wonder if it was possible that Estalia was wrong, about her being immortal,” Isalla stammered, barely sparing a glance for Vinara as she swallowed hard, trying to blink back her tears. Her emotions were in knots, but she was relieved to hear that Kitania was alive, as well as more than a little incredulous that they’d found out because the elves had come to visit. “I just… how did they teleport her there? That’s so far away from here that it’s…”

“I don’t know,” Rose said, her smile fading a little as she took a few steps closer, then pulled Isalla into a hug. Isalla hugged Rose tight, taking several deep breaths, trying to control herself.

Vinara’s interruption was soft, and her voice almost made Isalla jump. “The amount of mana it would take to pierce the barrier between worlds, then to skip all the nodes between Hellmount and the Forest of Sighs is immense. More than any normal enchanted item could contain, in fact. Whoever created it had a master artificer working for them, someone as skilled in the art of enchanting as Veldoran is with divination magic.”

“I… is it really that difficult?” Isalla asked incredulously, turning to look at Vinara, one arm still wrapped around Rose, and one of Rose’s arms around her waist. “We used a teleportation ring to get us to the palace, after all.”

“Yes, you did. However, that alone would take only a quarter of the mana it would take to teleport from the mortal world to the hells, in approximately the same spot. We’re talking about something that would require five times as much mana at a minimum, and that was just for a willing target, and with an item that takes a few minutes to activate,” Vinara replied, frowning deeply as she leaned against the wall, drumming her fingers on her thigh. “For it to have pierced her shields and teleported her against her will… I don’t even know how much mana that would take, Isalla. While I don’t believe it would take as much power as forging your armor, I think that it would come frighteningly close, and we’re talking about an item that can only be used once.”

“Oh,” Isalla said, her eyes widening slightly. After her practice with mana, she’d quickly realized just how little she had, and how much even basic spells took to cast. She knew enough to know that more powerful spells took immensely more than that, and enchanting was even harder. The idea that someone had spent a mind-boggling amount of mana on something to only be used once, and it’d been used on Kitania… that chilled her blood.

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