There were twoguards in full armour, one on either side of the gateway portal. Hecast a mental stun at them but it didn’t seem to do anything. Theyyelled ‘Intruder’ and came at him swinging their halberds. Theweapons must have been imbued with magic as they cut into his rockbody deeply but he had no blood to bleed. However, enough attackslike this one could chop him into pieces, which was not a desirableoutcome.
The basic ruleof magic defence was to be invisible. When you can’t be seen youcan’t be hurt. He created a zone of darkness changed shape into hisblack Zenostruct form and floated away. He adjusted his vision andformed two black blades and sliced through each guard but notbefore one had yelled to get a mage killer.
He moved overto the gateway entrance formed a semicircular wall of hardened airaround himself leaving him free to search for the portal anchor.The rock where it was supposed to be was seamless. What had theydone? He turned on his crystal vision and peered into the rock. Hecould see what appeared to be the anchor inside a metal boxembedded into the rock.
‘Hmm. Strange?’ he thought. ‘The metal box should interferewith the portal stone magic. I wouldn’t do it that way nor wouldGranddad. It must be a deception to allow the defenders a chance toget here.’
Just then heheard a thump against his air shield. He switched on his auravision and saw the auras of two mages inside his zone of darkness.There was a lightning bolt and the air shield weakened. There wasanother blast and it weakened further.
They wereinvisible and could probably see his aura. He created a pure heartaround his body. The zone of darkness was dispelled along with hisair shield and he floated there looking at two mage killers lookingat him.
They both divedsideways and became invisible. He recreated the zone of darknessand another wall of hardened air. Created a light to see andexamined the base of the gateway entrance. It was covered withtiles that blocked magic. ‘That’s where the portal anchor stoneis!’ he thought. ‘Very Clever!’
There wasanother dispel magic to eliminate the zone of darkness and his airshield and a direct lightning attack at attack at him. It didn’taffect him at all as he was immune to that type of magic.
One of the magekillers swore and attacked him with a large nasty looking daggerwhile the other was casting some type of magic spell he hadn’theard before. The dagger passed through him as if he wasn’t thereand he formed a black blade and struck the attacking mage in thethroat watching as the mage killer dropped dead covered in his ownblood.
The other magecompleted his spell and a strange looking black mist like creatureformed between him and the mage.
‘Damn what is that?’ he thought.
‘It looks like it could be from the dream land like myZenostruct body.’
The creaturehesitated for a few moments then attacked the mage killer totallycovering his body moments later the mage slumped to the groundlifeless. The conjured creature seeing no other life auras nearbyvanished.
‘Saved by my Pure Heart again ‘ he thought as he createdanother zone of darkness and hardened air shield, then got to worktrying to pry the tiles loose with a crow bar formed out of hisdark misty body matter.’
‘Five minutes later no one else had attacked and he found ittucked in a cavity below one of the tiles. He removed it carefullyreformed his body into a Newman shape and teleported back to theteleport marker outside of town where Granddad was waiting.Granddad sent a mental message to Miranlla to return and the stormbegan to dissipate as Miranlla headed back.
Two minuteslater a very wet and bedraggled High Priest Kelnor walked into thearea and saw the four dead men strewn on the floor in front of theuseless gateway portal and cursed loudly. He and two thousandtroops were now isolated on a dangerous hostile world with limitedsupplies and no way home.
A saturated andexhausted but happy Miranlla landed as a whirl wind and smiled.‘They won’t forget that storm soon.’ she grinned.
‘No they won’t.’ replied Aquitain as he handed her the goldenbelt and showed her the portal anchor stone. ‘They can’t go homenow except via Astaria and we have some bargainingpower.’
If Granddad canteleport you back to Rori and you can find out where and what theyellow scaled little people are hiding I might go back to Astariawith Alpha and find out what Aquiveritas knows.’
Chapter 42 Rori’sSurprise
Granddad droppedMiranlla off where she had left Rori and continued on back toTemplegate. Rori was sitting in the shade waiting patiently.
Let’s see whatfamily connections can do!’
‘R’ptor, I need to visit the hidden yellow LittlePeople!’
She took holdof Rori’s hand and waited a few moments. A great air elementalappeared and gently lifted her and Rori up and off they flew.
‘I’m thinking that Lord Aquitain is being very smart to behaving you as his first favourite.’ said Rori but Miranlla justsmiled.
After flyingfor over an hour they finally landed in a secluded gully in themountains. Miranlla thanked the air elemental in her druidic speechbut it left giving her no sign as to whether it understood ornot.
‘Where are the little people?’ she asked Rori.
Rori opened hissmall leather pouch at his side and pulled out a quartz pebble andplaced it on the ground.
‘You should be holding my hand and not be being afraid. Thisis yellow little people magic.’ he said to Miranlla and began tochant. As he chanted they began to sink into the ground as if itwere quick sand. Once her head was below ground she found that shecould see and move almost as if in water. Rori was outlined inbluish light and she in a greenish light.
After severalminutes, six figures appeared giving off a yellow glow and theyherded Rori and Miranlla a few hundred paces into a cave-like areawhich was really a large bubble of air as it had no entrance orexit. Miranlla and Rori stood waiting for another few minutes untila yellow scaled little person merged out of the rock wall.
‘Who are you and why are you
