Battle Mage: Winds of Change (The High King: A Tale of Alus Book 11) by Donald Wigboldy
Authors: Donald Wigboldy
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Ignoring the feel of the girl as much as he could, Sebastian felt along the metal square until he thought that he felt a weakness in the magic. It was in the upper left corner as the owl faced the square and the mage placed his finger tips of his left hand on the point. An idea for a rune formed in his head. It was hardly that original as it was more or less an arrowhead. The fat end was rounded and the point followed the flow of magic pointing to the exit of the portal.
Keeping his eyes closed, he envisioned flipping the arrow reversing the flow of the gate. It fought him a bit, but as the rune moved, the feel of the gate changed with it. Once flipped, Sebastian opened his eyes looking for the golden glow of the opening.
What he saw was the cloudy solid surface of the back of his portal. Quickly moving to check the other side, Sebastian found that he had indeed flipped the gateway. He tried to twist the iron in different directions; but it remained solidly set on the table unable to move.
"Yes!" he cried enthusiastically.
Looking over at the table, Ashleen could see the same thing and asked in surprise, "Did you change the portal?"
"I flipped it around," he said happily.
"Is it simply switched or is it upside down or twisted now too?"
Sebastian moved around to the golden side of the square portal and poked his hand through the gate. Gasping as the girl wanted to tell him to stop, her protest halted as his hand protruded through the larger doorway unchanged. Withdrawing it again, the mage nodded to the wizard.
Releasing the power holding the gates open with his gesture, Ashleen asked, "Did you figure it out the first try? Will this make the lock that you wanted to make?"
The mage considered her questions and answered, "I think so. If we make gates which limit the size of a door to prevent larger portals from letting the enemy into the area, we can make barriers using the back of the gates as well. The directional rune is enough to turn it, so I would just need to teach those using them how to turn them back and forth."
"How did you come up with that so quickly?" the girl questioned again as she watched him reach behind the table to pick up a canteen. The water was offered to Ashleen first, but the wilder wasn't winded by the use of power yet. Her reserves were greater than the mage's, though they had noticed he was changing as well. All his work had seemed to create new strength in his body for magic that exceeded his original power. Like he was worked steel folded over for strength, his body when looked at with healing magic was no longer like an average battle mage.
"I've been considering it for awhile, but I admit that I got lucky that it was close to what I was thinking. Maybe working with the flow of runes and the portal magic put me ahead on this one."
"Well, it's better than watching it blow up on you from an error this time," the girl chided him in relation to an earlier error in judgment.
Sebastian's first attempt to create a Hollow Sword from scratch had ended in it exploding with the draw of power from the earth putting him in the hospital. He would have died without Ashleen managing to heal him to a point. The wilder was unlikely to ever manage to be a true healer, but she had managed enough to save him that day.
Nodding at her joking admonition, the mage took the teasing in stride saying, "I definitely prefer this result to the broken sword, yes."
His eyes seemed to become distant a moment as he added, "I wonder if I can get this information to Darius? With all the portals he has set up, I'm not sure if he will be in Windmeer these days or not."
The high wizard had become a friend, collaborator on ideas and a mentor as well. Though they had only spent a little over a week's time together since he had met the immortal wizard, Sebastian felt surprisingly close to Darius already.
Ashleen brought him down to earth saying, "Perhaps you should finish working on it? Can you say that this will work
Ignoring the feel of the girl as much as he could, Sebastian felt along the metal square until he thought that he felt a weakness in the magic. It was in the upper left corner as the owl faced the square and the mage placed his finger tips of his left hand on the point. An idea for a rune formed in his head. It was hardly that original as it was more or less an arrowhead. The fat end was rounded and the point followed the flow of magic pointing to the exit of the portal.
Keeping his eyes closed, he envisioned flipping the arrow reversing the flow of the gate. It fought him a bit, but as the rune moved, the feel of the gate changed with it. Once flipped, Sebastian opened his eyes looking for the golden glow of the opening.
What he saw was the cloudy solid surface of the back of his portal. Quickly moving to check the other side, Sebastian found that he had indeed flipped the gateway. He tried to twist the iron in different directions; but it remained solidly set on the table unable to move.
"Yes!" he cried enthusiastically.
Looking over at the table, Ashleen could see the same thing and asked in surprise, "Did you change the portal?"
"I flipped it around," he said happily.
"Is it simply switched or is it upside down or twisted now too?"
Sebastian moved around to the golden side of the square portal and poked his hand through the gate. Gasping as the girl wanted to tell him to stop, her protest halted as his hand protruded through the larger doorway unchanged. Withdrawing it again, the mage nodded to the wizard.
Releasing the power holding the gates open with his gesture, Ashleen asked, "Did you figure it out the first try? Will this make the lock that you wanted to make?"
The mage considered her questions and answered, "I think so. If we make gates which limit the size of a door to prevent larger portals from letting the enemy into the area, we can make barriers using the back of the gates as well. The directional rune is enough to turn it, so I would just need to teach those using them how to turn them back and forth."
"How did you come up with that so quickly?" the girl questioned again as she watched him reach behind the table to pick up a canteen. The water was offered to Ashleen first, but the wilder wasn't winded by the use of power yet. Her reserves were greater than the mage's, though they had noticed he was changing as well. All his work had seemed to create new strength in his body for magic that exceeded his original power. Like he was worked steel folded over for strength, his body when looked at with healing magic was no longer like an average battle mage.
"I've been considering it for awhile, but I admit that I got lucky that it was close to what I was thinking. Maybe working with the flow of runes and the portal magic put me ahead on this one."
"Well, it's better than watching it blow up on you from an error this time," the girl chided him in relation to an earlier error in judgment.
Sebastian's first attempt to create a Hollow Sword from scratch had ended in it exploding with the draw of power from the earth putting him in the hospital. He would have died without Ashleen managing to heal him to a point. The wilder was unlikely to ever manage to be a true healer, but she had managed enough to save him that day.
Nodding at her joking admonition, the mage took the teasing in stride saying, "I definitely prefer this result to the broken sword, yes."
His eyes seemed to become distant a moment as he added, "I wonder if I can get this information to Darius? With all the portals he has set up, I'm not sure if he will be in Windmeer these days or not."
The high wizard had become a friend, collaborator on ideas and a mentor as well. Though they had only spent a little over a week's time together since he had met the immortal wizard, Sebastian felt surprisingly close to Darius already.
Ashleen brought him down to earth saying, "Perhaps you should finish working on it? Can you say that this will work
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