Maledictus Terra Book 3: Vetitum Nemus Part 70
Introduction
Welcome back to Maledicturs Terra. This is a Chain Story between myself and @lex-zaiya, meaning that we each write the parts alternatively.
If you have not read Maledictus Terra Book 1: Mortis Custos yet, it starts HERE at Part 1 and ends at Part 101 HERE. At the end of the Part 101 post you will find links to all 101 Parts!
Maledictus Terra Book 2: Sanguifex started HERE with Part 1 and ends at Part 111 HERE
The previous part by @lex-zaiya can be found here!
Part 70
“You what?” Magna yelled, her face turning crimson. Not from embarrassment, but from a boiling rage. “You brought him into the Castle! Adiran! This is not a safe action!”
Adiran waved his hands at the princess. “It is under control, I have bound him.”
“Bound him my arse!” She yelled. “You know how powerful he is? I can tell! There is no guarantee that whatever hold you have on him will work.”
“Magna, don’t be absurd. Look at him! He’s just a head now. That already binds him significantly. That and a few other things. I really don’t see why I need to explain these things to you. They are of magical nature and you do not have the skill nor the intellect to understand their workings.”
This statement did little to improve Magna’s humour. “Not intelligent enough to understand you say? You know what? I have worked with enough undead and curses and lifedrinkers that I know when something is dangerous or not! It is only when people like you, who think they know what they are doing, meddles with things like this – that we end up where we are right now!”
Gorma placed a hand on Adrian’s shoulder and this broke his concentration between studying the black light around Letulah’s writhing form and the bickering between his sister and his uncle. “Your uncle looks very familiar… he is very similar to you.”
Adrian sighed. He had hoped that he would not need to explain this so soon. “This is going to sound very strange to you. We are the same person. Well… nearly… he is from a different plane, but he is me and he travelled to this plane and into the past and became a foster-brother to my father.”
He looked at Gorma and could see her study him carefully as though considering whether or not to believe him.
“He travelled back in time in order to prepare this plane and myself and my sister for the assault of an pair of invader Gods who travel between planes and timelines. They have set their sights on our world and on myself and Magna.”
Gorma slowly looked to the older man and his sister and then back again. “So… “ She smiled broadly. “You age quite gracefully? I wonder, are you also planning on growing a beard?”
Adrian’s face also turned red. His was definitely not from anger.
A loud groan interrupted the yelling match between Uncle and Niece and saved Adrian from needing to reply. Letulah sat up and rubbed her head. “Can you guys go yell somewhere else? My head hurts.”
“Letty!” Magna yelled and came towards her.
“What happened?” The woman stood up and tested her arms and legs. “I feel like shit. Like someone beat me all over my body. Wait… didn’t I get stabbed?”
“Do not worry about that.”
Letulah jumped into the air and spun around to face in the direction that the voice had come from. “Who said that?” Only when she turned, there was no one behind her.
“It’s me you fool! I saved your life you know? Another five minutes and the undead poison would have rotted your heart into a pulp of useless flesh.”
“Barakus?!”
Over to you Lex!
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