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Alec is desperate to save the ingenairii race, and he’s willing to stoop to any measure to find the weapons he needs to succeed…

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

“Is everything alright down there?” Armilla’s voice called.

              
 
“I think so,” Alec responded after a moment’s pause.
 
He looked down at his sword blade.
 
To open this coffin would be to receive a fifty year curse.
 
What was fifty years of a curse likely to be?
 
Pain?
Disease?
 
Hatred by everyone around him?
 
Most of his remaining life time?
 
Was it worth giving up fifty years to save Bethany?
 
Would John Mark be able to protect him from a curse?
 

              
Knowing that he had no choice, Alec deliberately twisted the blade and pulled it towards him, watching its keen edge slowly slice through the ribbon, which fluttered off the top of the casket.
 
Re-sheathing his sword, Alec grunted as he placed his fingertips beneath the coffin lid and heaved upwards on the heavy load.
 
It was lighter than he expected, and Alec realized that the gold must be only a veneer of gold leaf covering a wooden lid.

              
As it rose high up into the air, Alec coughed at the stench of decay that rose and enveloped him.
 
He stepped back and coughed, while the lid fell to the ground.
 
Inside he found a skeleton, with tattered remnants of cloth stuck among the bones, and the glint of rich jewels adorning every conceivable spot.
 
Alec’s eyes were drawn to the skull, which still wore a golden crown, and the dark openings of the eyes, whose nothingness Alec imagined was scrutinizing him, preparing to spring its curse upon him.

              
From the empty sockets his gaze moved to the empty chest cavity, where he saw a round, jeweled amulet resting within the bony confines of the rib cage.
 
Alec carefully reached his hand between the bones to pick up the object, and to make a hasty escape from the eerie crypt.

              
Suddenly Alec gave a shout of panic, as the skull rose swiftly, and the jaws clamped their ivory teeth painfully on his forearm.
 
Alec’s hand clamped around the amulet, and at the same moment he held it in his grasp, the dead teeth pierced his skin, biting into his flesh right through the badge of his Spiritual ingenaire powers.

              
Alec’s mind was suddenly awhirl with strange thoughts and a mystifying confusion and fear.
 
He jerked his hand upward, ripping the amulet’s chain through the brittle bones that connected the skull to the bony torso, and sending the skull spinning away to rattle around the inside of the casket.
 
The sight of the spinning skull coming to rest was the last thing Alec remembered.

 

 

 

 

The Ingenairii Series

 

 

 

 

1.
   
Visions of Power

 

2.
At
the Seat of Power: Goldenfields and the Dominion

 

3. The Loss of Power: Goldenfields and Bondell

 

4. The Lifesaving Power: Goldenfields and Stronghold

 

5.
Against
the Empire

 

6. Preserving the Ingenairii

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Preserving the Ingenairii:

 

The World and
The
Energy Realm

Book 6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeffrey Quyle

 

 

 

 

Index

 

 

Section 1
  
The
Life Before

 

Chapter 1 – John Mark’s Cave
                                                       
Page 1

Chapter 2 – Going Home
                                                                 
Page 3

Chapter 3 – At Goldenfields Palace
                              
Page 5

Chapter 4 – The Ingenairii Illness
                                                
Page 7

Chapter 5 – Oyster Bay Arrival
                                                     
Page 19

Chapter 6 – Ingenairii Hill
                 
                                            
Page 22

Chapter 7 – The Journey Begins
      
                                            
Page 24

Chapter 8 – The Visit to Stronghold
              
                             
Page 31

Chapter 9 – Reaching the Pale Mountains
                                 
Page 36

Chapter 10 – At the Ruins
                                                               
Page 39

Chapter 11 – Descent to the Crypt
                                              
Page 48

Chapter 12 – To Trust the Lacertii
 
                                            
Page 54

Chapter 13 – Abandoning the World
                           
              
Page 68

Chapter 14 – Caught in the Demon’s Grasp
                              
Page 74

Chapter 15 – The Ingenairii Revived
                           
              
Page 78

 

Section 2
       
Michian

 

Chapter 16 – The End of the Curse
 
                                            
Page 83

Chapter 17 – Becoming Gordon
                                                   
Page 87

Chapter 18 – The Return to the World
                                       
Page 90

Chapter 19 – The First Battle
           
 
                                          
Page 98

Chapter 20 – The Identity Debate
                                                
Page 106

Chapter 21 – Teaching Stracha
                                                     
Page 108

Chapter 22 – The Battle for Frame
                                             
Page 112

Chapter 23 – The Demonslayer
Reborn
                                     
Page 122

Chapter 24 – His Identity Acknowledged
                                  
Page 134

Chapter 25 – Journey to Oyster Bay
                                            
Page 140

Chapter 26 – Bethany Approaches
 
                                            
Page 144

Chapter 27 – Within the Enemy’s Camp
     
                             
Page 146

Chapter 28 – Revenge on the Sorcerers
                                     
Page 154

Chapter 29 –
Problem
 
at
the Palace
                                           
Page 160

Chapter 30 – A Plan Falls Apart
                      
                             
Page 162

 

(Index, continued)

 

Chapter 31 – The Return of the Queen
                                       
Page 167

Chapter 32 – Stranded Without Rescue
                                    
Page 169

Chapter 33 – Alec
Without
Powers
                                             
Page 178

Chapter 34 –
Jeswyne’s Tea Ceremony
                                      
Page 190

Chapter 35 –
A Desperate Effort to Heal
                                    
Page 196

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