“What if it wants me, instead?” responded Garona, and for the first time, Khadgar heard a ripple of fear
in her voice.
“It doesn’t,” said Khadgar grimly. “It kills mages.”
“But you…”
“Just go,” said Khadgar.
Khadgar broke to the left, and, true to his fears, the demon followed him. Instead of heading toward the
door. Garona broke for the right, and started climbing the far bookcase.
“Get Medivh!” shouted Khadgar, darting down one of the rows of books.
“No time,” responded Garona, still climbing. “See if you can delay it in one of the rows.”
Khadgar turned at the far end of the long bookshelves, and turned. The demon had already leapt over
the study table and was now prowling down the row between the bookcases, between histories and
geographies. In the shadow between the rows the creature’s flaming eyes and mouth stood out in stark
relief, and acrid smoke now roiled from its wounded sides.
Khadgar cleared his mind, stuffed down his fear, and fired off a mystic bolt. A globe of fire or a shard of
lightning might be more effective, but the beast was surrounded by his books.
The bolt smashed into the creature’s face, staggering it back a pace. It growled and crept forward again.
He repeated the process like a ritual—clear the mind, fight the fear, raise a hand, and invoke the word.
Another bolt splanged off its ebony horns, ricocheting upward. The beast halted, but only for a moment.
Now its maw seemed a twisted, Despite herself, Aegwynn put a hand over her stomach.
“Yes, Mother dear,” said the past Medivh, the flames licking at his beard, the horns forming out of
smoke before zxchanxiang his brows. He was
wow power leveling Medivh, but Sargeras as well. “I hid in your womb, and passed into the
slumbering cells of your unformed child. A cancer, a blight, a birth defect that you would never surmise.
Killing you was impossible, seducing
aion power leveling you unlikely. So I made myself your heir.”
Aegwynn shouted a curse and lurched her hands upward, her anger wrapped around words not made
for human voices. A bolt of
aion power leveling scintillating rainbow energy struck the Medivh/Sargeras creature full in the
chest.
The phantom of the past staggered back one step, then two, then raised a single hand and caught the
energy cast at him. The room
aion power leveling smelled of cooking meat, and the Sargeras/Medivh snarled and spat. He
invoked a spell of his own, and Aegwynn was flung across the room.
“I cannot kill you, Mother,” snapped
wow power leveling the demonic form. “Some part of me keeps me from doing that.
But Iwill break you. Break you and banish you, and by the time you’ve healed, by the time you’ve
walked back from where I will send you, this land will be mine. This land, and the power of the Order of
Tirisfal!” flame-filled smile.
A third time he invoked the power of the mystic bolt, but now the creature was close, and it flashed in its
face, but save for illuminating its amused features, did nothing. Khadgar smelled its sour, burning flesh,
and heard a deep clicking within the beast’s throat—laughter?
“Get ready to run!” shouted Garona, from somewhere to his right and above.
“What are you…” started Khadgar, already backing up.
“Run!”she shouted, and pushed off with her feet. The half-orc had climbed to the top of the bookcases,
and now shoved them apart, toppling the cases like giant dominos. A deep crash of thunder resounded
as each bookcase tipped over its neighbor, spilling volumes and crushing everything in its path.
The last bookcase smashed against the wall and splintered, the force of the impact driving it to the
ground. Garona slid down from her now wobbling perch, long-bladed knife drawn. She tried to peer
through the churning dust.
“Khadgar?” she said.
“Here,” said the apprentice, plastered against the back wall, where the iron pedestals rose to support the
upper stacks on the balcony above. His face was pale even for a human.
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