Cards On The Table

As Alexei spoke and explained everything that he’d been through since leaving the Academy, the Administrar simply sat and listened with a growing wide-eyed wonder.

Here was a man who he had thought was weak and worthless, with a Power Divine that had amounted to nothing.

A failure.

A stain on his reputation as Administrar.

Yet he had become so much more than that, more than any Initiate that had ever come before him.

Harnessing not just his own Power Divine, but intricate Magery, the power of the Demon Lord and the power of Weapocraft all at once?

Four individual and bespoke powers, all contained within one person.

It was enough to make his head spin. No one should have been able to contain all that power, and yet there Alexei was, sitting in his office chair as if the past few months had never even occurred at all.

And then there were the other things he spoke about.

The darker things.

The things that would make anyone's stomach churn and hair stand up on end.

The death of