Queen of Midnight: A Dark Fae Fantasy Romance (Court of Lies Book 3) by Olivia Hart

Author:Olivia Hart [Hart, Olivia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2021-05-26T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Sebastian

I’d collected all the shadow walkers from the Trader’s Guild and brought them outside the Dark Court walls. Somewhere with a warren beneath my feet. They were so much softer than the Assassin’s Guild had been. Their lives had been easy. Take goods from one area of the world to another and be paid handsomely for it. Shadow walking allowed them to move things in days or even hours instead of months depending on how often they had to resurface in the Immortal Realm.

Several of them had even begun crossing over to the Mortal Realm to trade for goods. These were obvious for they wore the superior Mortal style clothing. Made of fabrics that were impossible to create here, they were extremely valuable.

Yet, none of these wealthy merchants had more than a moderate amount of experience in battle. That was about to change because there was no force so deadly as shadow walkers with a warren under their feet.

“I am going to rebuild the Assassin’s Guild,” I stated to the group, “and I would like as many of you to join it as possible.”

There were laughs at that statement, but I had known that would be the response. “And it will be the most profitable decision you ever make.”

“How is dying profitable, Prince? There’s a reason the original Assassin’s Guild is all dead.”

“You’ve all heard that there will likely be war soon. What will profit matter if the Dark Court is crushed? All the gold in the world won’t save your families if Seraphina wins.”

“There are less than a hundred of us, Prince,” another fairy called out. “What can so few do against thousands? Shouldn’t you have us gathering supplies?”

I smiled and touched a shadow. Sliding into the warren beneath us in less than a second, I touched a wall and found the fairy’s shadow. When I reappeared, I was directly behind him, and my obsidian blade pressed against his neck.

“Dead,” I whispered before sliding back into the warren. I moved to the first man who had spoken, pressing the blade into his back and whispering, “Dead” to him as well.

“In less than thirty seconds, I’d have killed you both. Two valuable soldiers, but also, two soldiers who were being protected by walls of troops. Fairies that can rain fire on our troops. Giants that can hurl boulders into our back lines. The operators of siege equipment.”

“In an hour, you hundred could kill thousands, and there is absolutely nothing that the Court of Light could do to stop you. They have no shadow walkers. They have no way to predict where you’ll appear.”

The traders glanced at each other as they realized their value. “What do we get for it?” the first man asked.

“You mean that you don’t want to volunteer?” I asked with a smirk.

There were soft chuckles before I continued, “You’ll be paid as elite soldiers. We’ll work out the specifics, but I consider you to be the most valuable troops in our arsenal, and you’ll be paid your worth.

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