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Thobius turned, swaying dangerously in his saddle, and looked at the huge skeletons in the distance.“So when our people left Dubram, they had to work hard to remove the crumpled doors and what was left of the lattice from the road.When the stone massif of Dubram hung over them, people, without saying a word, fell silent. The soldiers took out crossbows and pistols, Ser Richard, passing under the arch of the gate, pulled the string and began to drive the bow from side to side. Tobius was ready to take off from his saddle and use his battle magic as Chaplain Gosef rode, swinging his heavy hammer in his right hand. Why he volunteered to go on this sortie, the cleric did not explain - he only said that he was obeying the will from above, which made the soldiers look at each other in bewilderment.Dubram's courtyard was empty, save for a few fires with empty skewers, long cooled and partly washed out by the rain. Stables, forges, warehouses were completely or partially destroyed, there w
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- Sit silently!The wizard pulled the bolt, pulled out the ritual knife from the scabbard and began to put small icons on wood and metal, while reciting the memorized spell. Then he took a box of blue ointment from his belt bag and drew a continuous line across the joint.“It'll give us a few extra seconds if he starts rushing in here. Actually, the spell is designed for spiritual entities, not for demons, but we will win some moments ...Was that a demon?— No, the evil Gray Wolf! the mage barked.Ignoring the stunned people, Tobius looked around the great hall with sooty walls and ceiling beams, many hearths and stoves, tall skylights and empty cauldrons. Cold and musty reigned where suffocating heat and the smell of food should have reigned. The doors to the storerooms were left open. If, leaving, the defenders of Dubram left something to eat, then the Zulans and the like have long since cleaned everything up.The gray master counted the people who were lucky enough to be with him.
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The demon was smart enough to understand that he was simply being starved out. With a howl of rage, he severed the magic ropes. The bully shattered into chips from one full-fledged slap in the face, from the second the Reaper broke. Anatar lunged at the earth elemental, crashing into the rock of its body with its horned head, and with two swipes of its claws tore the summoned creature apart. Having finally finished with the water elemental, the demon rushed to hitherto methodically strumming the bowstring Arrow, but Tobius managed to lift the last surviving golem to the ceiling and glue it there, safely. He cast several prepared spells on himself: Cat Reflexes, Invulnerability, Painkiller. With such a set of simple charms, he could emerge victorious from a battle with ten perfectly trained human warriors, but a demon raged below, who, in a fit of hungry rage, began to throw pieces of furniture and pieces of stone left from the elemental at the wizard. Realizing that it was useless,
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Please give me my knife. Magda, fascinated by the dance of multi-colored luminous threads in the whirlpool of incomprehensible squiggles, shuddered as if emerging from a slumber, and handed Tobius his ritual knife. - Turn around. The wizard cast Painkiller, a blood-clotting spell on himself, and created a small magical mirror from the moisture pulled out of the air, after which he carefully opened his peritoneum and began to delve into his own giblets. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that Magda was following his manipulations, green with a bout of nausea. It seemed funny to him - the canteens often have to see mangled flesh after the battle, sometimes they help healers in hospitals, and sometimes they indulge in looting, so the habit develops quickly for many. But to see how a living person guts himself is too heavy and insane a sight for a simple human mind, so that even an experienced one can fail the stomach. Tobius completed the manipulation of his insides and fused th
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"Char Thobius, have you traveled a lot?"“Probably not as many as you, sire.Have you met monsters?— I had to.- Me too. I remember once we encountered a jackalot. That creature devoured many children.“Jackalots are not monsters, they are beasts. Smart, strong and very dangerous, but still animals.“Don't be so quick to judge until you're face to face with these creatures.- Fair.- Who have you met?Tobius hid the book in his bag.— With many. If we discard petty evil spirits like pasatuksh, vadurgs and other zealots, then there will still be a lot left. I remember once I foolishly wandered into a cursed place, and there ... I still don’t know what those creatures were called, but it was a miracle that we survived then. Although not unambiguous. There was a case when I had to run away from Murza. Although Murz is also a beast. And once we encountered a Dezrimzen [Carnivorous tree monster that can move quickly.], this creaky creature was chasing us ... chasing for a long time, I mus
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These thoughts made Thobius feel stuffy, though the breeze blew coolness and freshness into the bedchamber. The wizard closed the window, thinking, did not take the staff or bag and went out into the corridor. Lighting his way with a luminous moth, he descended to the lower floors of the main tower and stepped out into the night sky.The stars shone dimly from the sky, dark clouds similar to clouds floated slowly, inside the castle people went to bed, but outside, in its courtyard, life did not think to stop. Sentinels walked along the walls with spears and crossbows, a forge was working, servants scurried around in the light of torches, finishing what they did not have time to finish during the day, resting guards sat near the fires built right in the courtyard, and, judging by the smell, baked potato tubers in the fire. Attracted by the near-familiar sounds of a hammer striking an anvil and the hum of the flames in the forge, the magician headed towards the forge.The heat, the smel
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There were very few materials in Valemar that could withstand the impact of something as unusual as solid magic - neither steel, nor granite, nor even diamond could withstand it.Descending from the heavens, Tobius sat motionless for a long time on the blood-pink snow, gazing with empty eyes as the parzud's orbiting eyes slowed down. This ancient monster evolved its regenerative abilities to the point of absurdity and stubbornly continued to live, even after death. There, under the snow, judging by the trembling that the wizard felt, the corpse was still moving. The mighty spinal cord of the eternal lizard forced the muscles to contract, and if the parzu were free, his blind doomed body could still rush back and forth for several more hours, crushing and knocking everything in its path.- Well done, baby, everything is in order, we are now out of danger.Bone armor fell to gray cloth, and the mimic purred softly. Then Tobius approached the neck of the parzukh, the muscles on which wer
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For lunch, the prisoner of the Calpe fortress was served a bowl of thick and hot soup-puree, in which pieces of chopped herbs and rare meat fibers floated, a single crispy cracker rubbed with salt and garlic, instead of bread, and a decent pile of stewed mushrooms, as well as all kinds of forest berries. The meal was composed rather strangely, the abundance of gifts of the forest and the lack of habitual food were especially surprising, and in a wooden mug there was the most ordinary water, judging by the temperature, recently boiled. Suspicion aside, Tobius quickly finished his meal, licked his spoon, saved half the glass for later, and tried to sleep.Even the dimmest light no longer filtered through the narrow gap in the shutters when the sounds of someone's footsteps and the uneven light licking the eyelids were driven out of the prisoner's restless slumber.“Light the candles, please,” a rough male voice asked. “Char, if you try to fool around, my friend will bite your face off.
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After Tobius Moth entered the Academy grounds in front of hundreds of wizards, everything went awry. After some time, many heard through the Astral the appeal of Tobius, in which he denounced the archmage Shivarius the Polyhedron, calling him a renegade, guilty of the war with the Zulans and sabotage of the Academy. After that, hours passed before the barrier that kept the magicians out of the campus began to lose stability, and they began to diligently hit it with all available spells, despite the constant interference in the form of the air element. In the end, the barrier was broken through, and, having risen to the top of the main tower, the magicians found the rulers of the Academy there in full force, alive and unharmed.The guilt of Shivarius the Polyhedron was confirmed by the words of the stewards, and the wizards of the Academy were ordered to immediately begin the search for the missing traitor. But neither Archmage Shivarius nor Magister Tobius could be found. They weren't
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As the Polyhedron and the Free Gyenjoylin battled, Tobius chose the moment tensely. It was not easy, because, unlike himself, Shivarius effortlessly parried and counterattacked the magical creature. He was fast, deadly, masterfully interspersed with sword and staff strikes with magical attacks, pushing the gyanjoilin and lashing him with energy chains that appeared here and there from the air. Shivarius knew plenty of ways to inflict pain and injury on a creature that could disintegrate in smoke and reunite. The moment came, and Thobius did not miss it, dishonorably hitting the archmage in the back with the Ice Drill. The impaled renegade fell to the ground, and the Gyenjoylin immediately struck his chest with his blade. But instead of dying, Shivarius turned into a flock of asps that flew up to the ceiling, merged together, recreating the unharmed body of the wizard, and he collapsed on the back of the gyenjoilin's neck, plunging his sword into his unsteady flesh. Crying terribly, th
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And Chaos."I'll tell you what, boy, let me out!" Let me out and I'll kill Shivarius! I swear I'll finish off this nasty bastard, I'll pop him like a stinky pimple and then lick the contents! Don't hesitate, I will! Of course, I'll kill you too, but at least your death will be quick... maybe... I don't know, I haven't decided yet! But you can believe me, I will make Shivarius suffer for a long time!“I came here for nothing.- No, wait, wait, let me out ... no, just loosen the fetters a little! Even a nobody like you can do it, come on, give me a little chance, buddy! Let's!- Never!— Like this, right? And you have no other choice! You can’t do it yourself, boy, the task is not up to you!I was hoping for advice!- What advice?! Do you hear yourself?! What advice were you hoping to hear, slug?! Do you think there is some workaround? Do you think there is a way for a nonentity like you to bring down a colossus like Shivarius?! You live in the real world, motherfucker! In real - not in
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— Eishubeihwan.“Master wishes to give me a new name?” the gyenjoylin asked in a leaden voice.- The owner wants to give you this polyhedron. Take it somewhere where no one will see it, throw it as many times as you like - and put the fallen signs into your new name. By doing this, you will become your own master.The tiny wooden craft was in a wide palm, and the gyenjoylin stared at this priceless gift in disbelief.- Can't be…“I am an honest wizard and I keep my word.“Oaths given in the name of the Mage of Mages do not have to be kept before those whom he commanded to rule.“I have always fulfilled my oaths, to whom I gave them, to the king or the goldsmith,” replied the gray master.Gyenjoylin hid the ball in his belt and, materializing the sheath, hid the blade in it.“Shivarius will kill you if he catches you. Hide somewhere else... I don't know how you could beat him."Even with your help?" Tobius slid along the edge of the abyss. - I do not intend to change my decision, altho
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The danger was warned by a sharp gust of wind, which was nowhere to be expected in a room devoid of windows or a second exit. Tobius jumped back just in time to avoid being hit by lightning. Directly under the ceiling, on huge bright wings, a giant butterfly soared, fanned by a halo of iridescent glow. This beautiful creature would become an appropriate guest in innocent children's dreams, if fireballs, lightning and deadly ice arrows did not rain down from its delightful wings, from which the wizard had to leave insane zigzags.He blocked part of the attacks, diligently answered, attacked, maneuvered, defended himself, attacked again, but the butterfly flew quickly, beat accurately and accurately and did not know fatigue. It was Bambaleska, one of Pongemonius' beasts, summoned to Valemar by Shivarius the Polyhedron. Saturated with her master's magic like nectar, she set up an ambush near the ipspiroch and patiently waited for the stupid young wizard to reach for the artifact. Fightin
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Tobius tossed all three blueprints forward, energized them, and trapped the spirit in a triangular trap. Boards with luminous lines revolved around the pascantes, held together only occasionally by discharges of magical power running between them. Thobius cast a banishing spell, using the sharp knob of his staff to draw a polysyllabic drawing in the air with a septagram at its base. Pascantes pounded with his fists on the barrier that stopped him; He tore through the Gray Wall fairly quickly, but the second trick really gave him trouble. The revolving blueprints contracted as Thobius cast the spell, and the gray magister had only to “squeeze” a little to throw the pascantes somewhere in the area of the Arimead archipelago, when the spirit nevertheless split one of the typesetting wooden plates and freed itself.The magic system could not exist with less than three reference coordinates. The next blow knocked the spirit out of Tobius, he flew off into the open interior of the cabinet
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— Open it, there is a lot of interesting things in this book, but the most important thing for you is now on the flyleaf. Come on, open it up and try to read it.Thobius obeyed, opening a sheet of the thinnest parchment, which had yellowed with time, and saw on it an even line drawn in blue, barely distinguishable ink. On a hunch, he touched the badges, pouring a drop of his magic into them, and they shone as if filled with blue flames.Jassar... Ansafarus? Something quivered in Tobius's soul and exploded.“I remember what it was like to hold for the first time something that Jassar himself once held before me. And not just holding on. He created this book, created the matter of which it is composed, inscribed everything in it, from the first to the last character. It's Jassar's book, Tobius. I went through the arms of death and great torment to get to it, entered the Wild Land with a dozen faithful, experienced, proven associates, friends whom I loved like brothers and sisters ... an
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"What does that mean, charm?!" - the officer shouted, trying to block the screams of the indignant crowd.“It’s just that sometimes people need a little help to be human.But no one heard him. The guard held back the indignant, flying from everywhere, but rotten vegetables and insulting words did not reach; the irritated city fathers hurriedly retreated, accompanied by guards - they, too, could have been punished for a disrupted performance, although they were not to blame for anything. Tobius, on the other hand, looked around carefully and thought - people deliberately save rotten meat until better times, so that later they can throw it at someone, or some quick-witted hawkers go through the crowd and sell spoiled food for everyone, before some drunkard is wrapped in pads and it will be possible to use the sufferer's face as a target?The magician struck the ground with his staff, and his voice sounded like thunder, reaching the ears of all those gathered:It was my prisoner! I fough
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He walked around the building, as he had done on his first visit. The walls of the inn were protected by prayers that warded off not only evil, but magic itself as it is. It was impossible to get inside, but Tobius was not used to looking at the world from the height of a chicken perch, he looked wide and far, like a soaring eagle. Mainly because he had a flexible, inquisitive mind, but the ability to fly also helped.Soaring on the Wings of an Eagle, the wizard climbed to the very top of the tower, to where Marin had an office. Having looked into the windows that had not been washed for a long time and making sure that the holy grace does not protect them, the gray master broke several glasses and got inside.Despite the fragments that scattered on the floor, the former office did not begin to seem any more dirty; a mess, mixed with desolation, already reigned inside. There was no doubt that someone, most likely experienced "sniffers" of Investments, climbed the premises far and wide
