Gate of Worlds by Kevin Mclaughlin & Michael Anderle

Author:Kevin Mclaughlin & Michael Anderle [Mclaughlin, Kevin & Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2024-04-10T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

After I had rested from the magical exertion, I grabbed a book from the stack and flipped it open. Harken did the same. Four of us digging through the books could only be more productive than two.

For a long while, we read in silence. If we could find something about a weakness or a self-destruct mechanism, we would solve all our problems. Unfortunately, information about the Gate of Worlds was hard to come by. Mentions popped up here and there, but multiple accounts conflicted with one another.

One book claimed that the construction of the Gate of Worlds had heralded the end of the Sunderian empire. Another claimed it was a legend conceived to explain the chaos that had befallen the land. Few stories spoke of the World Stones except that they powered the gate.

Where did the World Stones come from? Who had created them? What were they made of?

We answered too few questions. None of these books were informative in the slightest.

A chill ran through my mind as I turned to the next page. An ominous, powerful force tugged at my senses. The queen wraith. We were out of time.

Harken and I locked gazes, shut our books with a snap, and stood. I retrieved the Stone of Ice and dropped it into my inventory bag.

Pyrdian and Freya scrambled upright as we rushed for the door. “What’s happened?” Pyrdian worriedly inquired.

“The queen wraith is here,” I informed them. “You two need to hide or get ready to fight. Harken and I are doing the latter.”

Pyrdian’s eyes widened in fear, and he nodded. Pyrdian was not a fighter, but maybe Freya was. She knew null magic. That alone could be useful. I had no time to wait and ask, unfortunately.

Harken and I raced from the room and down the stone corridors, dodging dwarves and humans alike. Dwarven soldiers streamed toward the waterfalls at the rear of the city. Aside from that, everything appeared normal. The streets were quieter than when I had come out to fetch Pyrdian hours ago, but no wraiths floated along the bridge or on the city’s second tier, and nothing inside the city had suffered visible damage.

I followed the river's path with my gaze and spotted the enemy in the shadows near the shore. A dozen wraiths hovered over the water at the base of several miniature waterfalls. More soared toward them from downstream, emerging from a tunnel the river flowed into.

I glanced at Harken, and she nodded. She saw them, too. We knew what we had to do.

Harken raced past the dwarven cathedral and along the narrow bridge leading to the city's western side. Even from this distance, I saw her hands glimmering with the blue aura of magic. She gestured upward and called forth walls of fire from the ground adjacent to the wraiths.

The creatures shrieked. Harken summoned more curtains of flame along the riverbank, effectively blocking the wraiths in the water. Unfortunately, the enemy moved swiftly and craftily. They sank into the river and swam up the waterfalls, where they would enter the city through alleys and crevices.

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