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“What is the Glaev?”
“It’s some kind of dark magic. It absorbs the energy of life until there’s nothing left,” she said.
“Truth.”
“How does it work?”
“I…” she stumbled. “I don’t know.”
“Truth.”
“How did you learn about it?”
She paled. “From…a book.”
“Lie,”Ryker growled.
A cruel grin crossed my lips. I pressed the blades forward again, with more pressure this time.
“Try again!” I shouted over her wails.
Malina bristled behind me.
“It was him! He’s the one controlling it! Stop, stop!” she screamed.
I lessened the pressure on the blades.
“She’s telling the truth…”Ryker sounded agitated.
“Who ishe?” I demanded, my heart rate increasing.
What she said made sense. It seemed so unlikely that she was the one doing all of this on her own with no explanation as to how she was able to hone magic at all, as a Sage. But to hear her confirm another…
“He calls himself Daegel,” she sobbed. “He’s a dark wielder from another realm.”
“Explain,” I hissed.
“He’s behind everything!” Vicria screamed. “Someone stole a book from him and he needed it back desperately. He’s been hunting it for years. It’s his…guide or something. He’s killed so many for it, and he went to personally find it in Morah after he had some drugged up low-life killed. And he cursed me after I made a deal with him a long time ago. He used me to find the places for him to attack. I couldn’t be released from my deal until my task was complete.”
He really was behind everything. The murders of the Scholars and the seller. That was him.
“Which is what exactly?”Ryker asked.
“What is your task?” I relayed Ryker’s question.
“To serve him.”
“How? Why you? You’re a Sage with no abilities.”
“I’m more…sensitive to the Spirits. It allows me to detect where there are greater amounts of them.” She curled her lips. “He had me determine which places for him to attack based on how much he had of his reserves at the time.”
My breath left my lungs. I shook my head, clearing my thoughts from my readings of the book. “What is his ultimate task? Why is he doing this? What does he want?”
“I don’t know. He doesn’t tell me anything. He only gives commands,” she said. “However, he has been particularly fixated on finding something recently. Something other than his book. A precious diamond.”
“No… Kya, let me in,”Ryker requested carefully. I ignored him.
“A diamond?” I asked with a raised eyebrow. It couldn’t be that simple. That’s what stopped the dark magic from being wielded. It didn’t make sense.
