Shadow of the Arisen: An Epic Dark Fantasy Novel (Lands of Wanderlust Book 1) by Paul Yoder

Author:Paul Yoder [Yoder, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: amazon.com
Published: 2020-03-27T22:00:00+00:00

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The Last Light of Day

The chamber door flew open as Bede stepped into the room where she had seen Nomad taken. Smoke still lingered in the room, incense appearing just lit in trays on either side of a large throne on the other end of the grandiose room. Gold and marble pillars lined the walls and lavish crimson drapes covered most of the room.

Looking around hastily, Bede saw an open door to the left of the room. Guessing that to be the direction they had taken Nomad, she took off running through the threshold.

Finding added confidence in each stride from her newly found powers gifted to her through her talisman, she ran headlong now down the dark hallway which looped around, coming to a spiral stairwell, leading both up and down.

Pausing for a moment to listen for signs of Nomad and his captives, she thought for a moment she heard something up a few flights.

Without stopping to confirm it, she strode up the stairs, getting off on the second floor, hearing a serpentine voice echo in from somewhere on that floor.

The room let her out on an indoor balcony that ran along a large, open room with sweeping stairs leading down to numerous fountains and plant beds. At the end of the room was a large archway leading out to an outdoor veranda, upon which she could see figures in the moonlight hauling Nomad out into the last remaining hues of a sun that had set some time ago.

Jumping over the balustrade, Bede fell fifteen feet before touching down on the hard, sandstone floor, tucking into a roll to soften the landing. She grunted through what felt like a pulled hamstring, forcing herself to get back up to speed as she sprinted towards Nomad’s captors who seemed to take note of her as they rounded the archway.

As Bede approached the veranda, she could hear the snake-like voice command, “Take care of her,” and just as she approached the threshold, a large skeletal knight came back around the pillar swinging its long bastard sword at Bede’s head.

She didn’t have enough time to stop her momentum, so she leapt in at the knight, plowing into it before its sword could make contact with her, sending the two barreling out onto the veranda.

The knight’s heavy armor made it difficult for the arisen to right itself. Bede sprung back up and dodged a weak sword swipe from the prone foe before clutching her brightly glowing talisman, shooting it towards the abomination’s bleached skull.

Its teeth violently rattled out of its skull before its face began to disintegrate, bone flecking off under the presence of the bright light.

Sword clanged to the stone floor as the thing ceased moving, meriting the attention of the hooded one holding Nomad along a flight of stairs leading down off of the veranda.

Bede turned around, looking straight at the one in shrouds. Out of its robe folds came a polished wand. Quick as a blink, the skeleton snapped out an undiscernible bark as a bolt of purple light shot directly at Bede’s hand holding the white, glowing light.

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