Rise of Magic Boxed Set One: A Kurtherian Gambit Series (The Rise of Magic Boxed Sets Book 1) by CM Raymond & LE Barbant & Michael Anderle

Author:CM Raymond & LE Barbant & Michael Anderle [Raymond, CM]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2018-02-07T22:00:00+00:00

PROLOGUE

“This is the chaos created by Unlawful magic!” Jedidiah the Prophet screamed as he pointed to the incinerated house.

He stood on a hastily constructed platform in front of the rubble that had once been Hannah’s home. It was his favorite prop. “Let this spot forever remind you what happens when the people of Irth ignore the restriction—when they ignore the commands of the gods!”

The sermon wasn’t a new one. The Prophet had been reciting it almost word-for-word for weeks now. Jedidiah read the names of the Hunters who had been killed trying to apprehend Hannah.

After finding her brother dead, she had nearly taken out an entire city block while blasting their bodies to hell with the magic she had not yet mastered. The Prophet loved to emphasize the fact that she had shredded them. It made his testimony that much more powerful.

“Law without magic is impotent. However, magic without law is bloody deadly. Our world has learned that lesson time and again. That is why the Matriarch and the Patriarch put people like the Chancellor in the world as its gatekeepers. Someone who has a mastery of the craft, but also self-control. Our submission to his will is in itself an act of adoration of our Good Parents.”

Jedidiah’s voice had grown hoarse from shouting. The crowds grew larger as the days ticked past. Since the death of his disciples in the noble district, he expected them to get bigger still.

“Preach it!” a voice yelled from just a few rows back.

The disciples filling those first ten to twenty rows were completely committed to both message and mission. They would do anything for the Prophet, and nearly a dozen of them had proven that recently by dying while searching for Unlawfuls on the streets of Arcadia. Jed would have preferred it if they had been successful, but their loyalty pleased him nonetheless.

In the first year of his ministry, Jed’s disciples had been wayward folks who were looking for meaning anyplace they could find it. Most were outcasts, gathering peacefully on the Capitol lawn. But now they were all armed with clubs, pitchforks, or whatever else could do some damage. They were his little army, and they made Jed feel like a god himself.

Behind them were the curious, and still farther back, the onlookers. Since the girl named Hannah had nearly blown up the Queen’s Boulevard, the heckling had stopped. Jed’s disciples had made their influence known, and one stood a better chance tangling with a Guard at the Arcadian gate than pissing off a zealot with a homemade spear.

“The Mother and Father have spoken through the Chancellor, and he remains the regulator of magic. But friends, Adrien and his people cannot do all the good work, which is why we gather in devotion to the calling of the Parents. You have done so well pointing out and taking down the Unlawfuls among you. It is hard work. It is dangerous work. But there could be no more Holy…”

Movement near the back of the horde drew Jedidiah’s attention, and he lost his train of thought.

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