Ultimate Magic by DB King

Author:DB King [King, DB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

The Titan’s Claw cut through the night sky like a hot knife through a loaf of black bread. The faint glow of the runes on the underside of Maimonides’s airship made the only light, bathing the deck in a wan glow that bought to mind long nights at the Royal Academy and dangerous adventures. From his position on the bridge, Alec set the coordinates as close as he could get to the Royal Hunting Grounds without being seen and turned the deck over to a guard. The ship would fly throughout the rest of the night, coming to a rest just outside of Chaos’s scanning range.

Then, once they were all rested, they’d fly to see the High King. And their future would be set, one way or the other.

It’s a shame Maimonides isn’t checking out this view, Alec told himself as he descended from the bridge. But the gnome and his new girlfriend had taken to the documents Uriel and Alec stole from the High King’s library the way a fish takes to the water. Alec had very little doubt that if there was a weakness in the construction of the Chaos Immolator that would allow them to destroy the airship, the Shadebringer and his paramour would find it.

So that was one worry to be safely tucked away. Leaving only about a million others.

Even now, late into the night, he knew the Shadebringer and Viya were deep in the heart of the ship, working. All his attempts to get Maimonides and Viya to remain behind at the Northmund Estate had failed. Despite the danger, the old gnome had wanted to be here—or perhaps he just couldn’t take the sight of Uriel’s ancestral home just yet.

Alec could understand that, too. It would be a long, long time before he ever thought of the Northmund Estate as truly his.

As he descended below decks, the sounds of conversation reached his ears. A smile spread across his face as he listened to his friends drink and gossip. Some things never change, Alec thought, and maybe he didn’t want them to change. It felt good to be surrounded by people who he cared about and who cared about him, and that was something he never wanted to stop.

Most of the talking seemed to be coming from the dining chamber. Alec made his way there, picking up a bottle of something dark and strong on the way. It felt like the night before a pitched battle, and Alec had heard tales that a little bitter helped a man forget his troubles at times like this.

It wasn’t all that long ago that Alec had fantasized about being a soldier in the King’s Expeditionary Force. Had he achieved that fantasy, he’d have been halfway across the world, fighting on some foreign battlefield. While the High King did what, exactly? Chased magical game across his forest?

There was so much wrong with society, Alec now understood. Leaders didn’t lead, and the paragons of excellence intended to help the people lined their own pockets instead.

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