Preserving the Ingenairii
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Authors: Jeffrey Quyle
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