The man had positioned himself behind the young man, his wand in his left hand so he could hold his right hand out for the artefact. Shade stood frozen as the wand pressed against the back of his neck. From this close, any bolt could cause his head to explode like a grape. “Don’t try anything stupid” Valerius warned.
The two mage factions had had been at war for years finally called their truce in order to access the temple in a unified front. The only faction not a hundred percent on board with this was the morta
The flight took them further than they had ever travelled before in a couple of hours. Midnight approached steadily like a foreboding cloud.
The spells dissolved the moment the Death-Hunter vanished. The barriers came down and everyone stumbled forward. The magic freezing Shade in place evaporated and the boy rushed forward, sprinting to t
