Six Sacred Swords by Andrew Rowe

Author:Andrew Rowe [Rowe, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter IX – Mysterious Dungeon

We marched on along the lake.

During the day, we hiked as far as we could. Most of our meals involved birds. Occasionally, one of us managed to snag a fish or a small game animal from the edge of the forest.

We found some fruits and berries every once in a while, but neither of us were sure if they’d be poisonous, and I wasn’t confident the purestone could handle turning their liquid into something safe to drink. So we stuck with meat.

At night, we trained, just as I’d promised.

I couldn’t handle much of it at first. My injuries were just too fresh. But I started working with Reika on the basics of footwork for swordplay, since she’d never actually fought with a sword before. And beyond that, I started trying to teach her some of my sorcery, but she didn’t seem to be able to make use of it.

“All my abilities are natural,” she explained. “I don’t think I can learn other types of magic like humans can. And more than that, the other humans around here can’t do what you can, either. Not without an attunement.”

I spent some time thinking about that, trying to figure out if it was a solvable problem. Could I help her establish a connection with a dominion somehow?

I tried having her hold onto the purestone to see if the aura in it would help her learn water magic. Holding onto items with magical auras always seemed to help me, but it didn’t seem to do anything for her. I also let her carry Dawnbringer for a while, which she was extremely skittish about, but she conceded when I told her that it was part of a training exercise that might help her beat Raizo.

That might have been unfair, but it did get her to spend more time with Dawn, and Dawn seemed extremely pleased about that. After a few days, Reika seemed to ease up about the idea of not being allowed to touch Dawnbringer, and I found them chatting more often without my intervention being necessary.

Aside from magical items, I also wondered if I might be able to help Reika by casting spells on her directly, but I didn’t really have any beneficial spells that I was confident wouldn’t hurt her. Even Body of Stone was the type of spell that could be dangerous to someone who didn’t have the same kind of mana composition that I did, and most of my other spells were attack spells.

It was something we could experiment with if we found someone with healing magic or something similarly innocuous. Beyond that, we talked about the idea of getting attunements for ourselves. Neither of us had any idea if it would work, since both of us had magic that worked differently than the local humans already.

At the moment, it was a moot point, because we were nowhere near a spire and didn’t know if we could get inside one. Still, it was something to think about for a future step of our journey.

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