Seeds of Ruin (Sacred Continent Book 1) by Petra Landon

Author:Petra Landon [Landon, Petra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

The Past

Imperial Alcazar

Calixto strode down the hallway, his face like thunder. The news out of Kraat and Badrok was bad and verging on terrible. The day after the floods, everything had gone to hell in a handbasket. The Order was commanded to stand down, and the Druids had returned home. He suspected the Element-Wielders were more than happy to abandon the quest. Though initially euphoric at their success, nerves had clearly been jangling at the prospect of wreaking greater devastation on the local populace. Sig had been right in his assessment. The Magi did not have the temperament for this. Despite the shortcoming, they’d excelled at the mission until Lavender Biriot had leaked the entire playbook.

With the Druids out of the game, it fell to the Sacred Defenders to deal with the treacherous Lords. From the beginning, the mission began to come apart at the seams. Sig’s hand-picked teams were about to unleash two precisely targeted stealth operations to simultaneously take both Principal Lords into custody, when the Shadows in the field reported a disturbing new development. A rumor was rapidly gaining ground suggesting the Sovereign had sent in his Element-Wielders to incite a war. The theory was that their Emperor had let loose an avalanche of devastation on the Kraatians and Badrokis with the goal of outright conflict between the two neighboring rivals.

Fury against the Sovereign began to erupt in pockets, and tempers were running high. Sig decided they couldn’t wait any longer to expel the Principal Lords. However, stealth was no longer an option. Thus, two contingents of Defenders, already stationed in the area, were redeployed instead, converging on the adjoining principalities. But the Imperial forces had met with opposition from local troops. The Tor called in reinforcements, and Defenders were rushed in from wherever they could be spared.

Much to the Defenders’ consternation, the Badrokis and Kraatians were fighting back as a single cohesive unit to outflank the Imperial forces from two sides. The situation was a powder keg waiting for a spark. They had to put down this revolt quickly before it grew into an uprising. With that in mind, Calixto ordered the adjacent principalities of Nerkh, Silterra, Gardar and Kaisera to send troops to supplement the Defenders under the command of the Tor.

Nerkh and Silterra responded to the Sovereign’s bidding promptly, Gardar dispatched a ragtag battalion of poorly equipped and trained soldiers, but the principality of Kaisera had been unresponsive. A mere handful of years older than him, Jaiman Davrakis of Kaisera was already an established Principal Lord: powerful, influential and respected across the realm. It was a bad sign that he was willing to flout a direct order from the Bariksaedar.

A tall skeletal frame glided by at the periphery of his vision. Calixto halted. “Spymaster” he greeted. “What news?”

Bolivar drifted in closer. “The Tor has broken through the Kraatian defenses and is fighting his way to the Lord’s manor. Badrok is holding fast.” His voice was barely more than a murmur. What was unfolding in

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