Unleashed by Ramón Terrell

Author:Ramón Terrell [Terrell, Ramón]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tal Publishing

26

Selvetar

A meeting with the imbecilic archminister was enough to make anyone wish for the sweet relief of deafness. And so when the first tremor hit, it had come as a shock, but also a welcomed interruption from the large man’s incessant and oftentimes repetitive rambling.

“What has happened?” Selvetar asked a monk who had come up beside him.

“We do not yet know, First Magus,” the monk replied. “The ground shook, just before ten horrible monsters akin to the one that wilder brought into the city days ago crashed into the ground from the sky.”

“Is the city guard so blind?”

The monk hesitated. “Our … the guards have never had reason to look to the sky for threat of attack, First Magus.”

How he hated that title. Of course, the monk was addressing him with the utmost respect, but to Selvetar, it was a constant reminder that he was subordinate to Magi Master Vladrick, a man he didn’t particularly like. To the first magus, Vladrick was little different than that narrow-minded king, Alyn. The only thing that made the situation bearable was that Vladrick was at least more intelligent than Alyn.

“No threat has ever come from the sky, so there was no necessity to be mindful of it.” Selvetar’s expression was neutral, but the monk’s responding swallow indicated he caught the tone. “Entire civilizations fall due to such complacency.”

They exited the archminister’s mansion to chaos. A dozen or more four-armed monsters with skin that looked to be made of lava rock stomped through the city, growling and cursing in a language the first magus didn’t understand, but knew to be the infernal language of the underworld. The things swung their weapons all the while spitting that horrible tongue, striking down any who were too slow to get away.

The ground shook again—this time more violently—and an explosion rocked the mansion and sent dust and debris clouding through the main hall. Selvetar and the monk turned toward the commotion, but the threat wasn’t yet apparent.

Selvetar pointed at the dust flowing from the main hall. “Deal with that. And see to it that the city watch guards are at the front line to defend against these creatures.”

“Yes, First Magus,” the monk said in a shaky voice.

Selvetar looked back over his shoulder. The explosion had come from the direction where the spicetrader’s twin daughters were being held. The girls were likely in danger, but the resident monks and the guards would have to see to them. What was at work here? Those four-armed creatures were most certainly from the underworld, which meant something had happened to awaken too much evil in the world at once.

He stepped out into the chaos. Spears and arrows flew through the air, snapping against the hard stony bodies of the cursing monsters. One of the creatures cut down three guards at once. It simply spun a circuit and cleaved it’s rocky sword through the armor of the soldiers as though it were simple dining garments. It completed its turn to face the first magus, and charged him.

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