The Wielder: Sworn Vengeance (The Wielder Series) by David Gosnell Page A
Authors: David Gosnell
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floor and bursting aflame – a Molotov cocktail. Other windows break in similar fashion with the same result. Flames erupt about the sanctuary. Reverend James calls for calm and for everyone to take their time making their way to the exits.
Another window breaks and he hears a thump over to the side. He looks over to see a grenade.
It was the last thing the Reverend Martin James ever saw.
Panic ensue s and the congregation tries to pour out of the church. They are met by an angry mob screaming epithets such as “Infidels!” and “Idolaters!” But words aren’t the only thing the mob is hurling – they are hurling stones and bricks too.
Many parishioners f all. More fall when automatic gunfire breaks out from somewhere in the mob.
The constables arrive and are also met with violence. Stones, bricks and gunfire assault them. Re-enforcements come and are met by the same greeting. The riot carries on for hours.
None of the Saint James congregation were ever given the chance to repent their ways.
Chapter 24
Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t do a good job of sitting around patiently. The months that I’ve had to sit around the Techno Mage guild and watch the world unravel have not done well by me. I feel like a wussy all holed up here because Maldgorath may come for me.
Let him come. Me and Yayne, my holy sword , would like to have a meeting with him - even on a Sunday morning.
Things are bad. Muslims have risen against Christians. Christians are rising against Muslims. Then, to make things worse Znuul and crew showed up at the Wailing Wall and basically called out Judaism too. It is chaos.
Unfortunately, Maldy’s plan is going off without a hitch. It’s not that he’s trying to get man kind to destroy itself. His endgame is to have the balance of energy in our realm tip to evil. That way, as it is explained to me, the openings of portals to the Helterzen dimension open faster and stay open longer. Maldy’s endgame, as Edgar theorizes, is to open an army size invasion portal and use our realm as a bridge to T’uel Faeden.
That was why Znuul originally took the deal to come to our little corner of the multiverse.
To open a gate to that hell realm requires someone of clear mind and free will on our end to bleed out, creating a sheer wall of blood that is energized by a specific incantation. That’s one reason these portals aren’t commonplace. It basically takes a life from here to allow a life from there to enter.
I am told that’s how Znuul entered our fair world, long ago. Things must have been very bad for that sacrifice to seem like a better alternative . The legends tell he was brought over to turn the tide in a war that went sour. According to that legend he did, turn the tide - in record time. Of course, then they realized they were stuck with him. The sorcerer that made the bargain to bring Znuul over later tricked him and locked him away, where he laid for thousands of years.
Until archaeologists uncovered the tomb and Grey bound Znuul in exchange for release – a move that cost Grey his place in the Protectorate.
Now, Ahtsag Znuul runs free and Grey Lightbringer is no more.
My review of the lore does raise questions. When Znuul crushed the ancient barbarian a rmies harrying the pre-Sumerian kingdom of Hyuukal he used a combination of sheer force, summoned creatures and terror in battle, coupled with disease. To point, there’s certainly the terror aspect. But, there has been none of the plague today he used that ravaged the barbarian peoples. In lore, the beast Znuul would wade into enemy encampments alone. Here, he acts more as figurehead.
S hould Znuul now be one of Maldy’s summonlings that would explain much – his behavior would be directed. That’s my theory - and the theory of most whom have either come to know him or the lore.
Of course , all this is nothing but an exercise in academics.
The phone in my room
Another window breaks and he hears a thump over to the side. He looks over to see a grenade.
It was the last thing the Reverend Martin James ever saw.
Panic ensue s and the congregation tries to pour out of the church. They are met by an angry mob screaming epithets such as “Infidels!” and “Idolaters!” But words aren’t the only thing the mob is hurling – they are hurling stones and bricks too.
Many parishioners f all. More fall when automatic gunfire breaks out from somewhere in the mob.
The constables arrive and are also met with violence. Stones, bricks and gunfire assault them. Re-enforcements come and are met by the same greeting. The riot carries on for hours.
None of the Saint James congregation were ever given the chance to repent their ways.
Chapter 24
Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t do a good job of sitting around patiently. The months that I’ve had to sit around the Techno Mage guild and watch the world unravel have not done well by me. I feel like a wussy all holed up here because Maldgorath may come for me.
Let him come. Me and Yayne, my holy sword , would like to have a meeting with him - even on a Sunday morning.
Things are bad. Muslims have risen against Christians. Christians are rising against Muslims. Then, to make things worse Znuul and crew showed up at the Wailing Wall and basically called out Judaism too. It is chaos.
Unfortunately, Maldy’s plan is going off without a hitch. It’s not that he’s trying to get man kind to destroy itself. His endgame is to have the balance of energy in our realm tip to evil. That way, as it is explained to me, the openings of portals to the Helterzen dimension open faster and stay open longer. Maldy’s endgame, as Edgar theorizes, is to open an army size invasion portal and use our realm as a bridge to T’uel Faeden.
That was why Znuul originally took the deal to come to our little corner of the multiverse.
To open a gate to that hell realm requires someone of clear mind and free will on our end to bleed out, creating a sheer wall of blood that is energized by a specific incantation. That’s one reason these portals aren’t commonplace. It basically takes a life from here to allow a life from there to enter.
I am told that’s how Znuul entered our fair world, long ago. Things must have been very bad for that sacrifice to seem like a better alternative . The legends tell he was brought over to turn the tide in a war that went sour. According to that legend he did, turn the tide - in record time. Of course, then they realized they were stuck with him. The sorcerer that made the bargain to bring Znuul over later tricked him and locked him away, where he laid for thousands of years.
Until archaeologists uncovered the tomb and Grey bound Znuul in exchange for release – a move that cost Grey his place in the Protectorate.
Now, Ahtsag Znuul runs free and Grey Lightbringer is no more.
My review of the lore does raise questions. When Znuul crushed the ancient barbarian a rmies harrying the pre-Sumerian kingdom of Hyuukal he used a combination of sheer force, summoned creatures and terror in battle, coupled with disease. To point, there’s certainly the terror aspect. But, there has been none of the plague today he used that ravaged the barbarian peoples. In lore, the beast Znuul would wade into enemy encampments alone. Here, he acts more as figurehead.
S hould Znuul now be one of Maldy’s summonlings that would explain much – his behavior would be directed. That’s my theory - and the theory of most whom have either come to know him or the lore.
Of course , all this is nothing but an exercise in academics.
The phone in my room
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