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Chapter 7: First of the 5

  Chapter 7

  First of the 5

  The air turns hot with the overwhelming scent of sulfur. The sky had a reddish tint even in the darkness. We continue down the street for a few blocks and I stop. We were in front of an auction house that was in disrepair. The sign was missing several letters so the name was indecipherable. The windows were busted out and there were papers littering the front stoop. The door was hanging askew on its hinges. I send a pulse into the building and get back a ping of energy dark but not exactly demonic. I link to my brothers

   They nod and Baker pulls up his shotgun. He enters the building first followed by me with Shyft bringing up the rear. The inside was just as ramshackle as the exterior. The shelves were knocked over and mostly destroyed. There were broken vases and torn pictures on the floor. The smell of decay clung to the air, coming from the back of the auction house. The three of us sweep and clear heading to the back. I kept a small bubble of my energy inside the store so I could follow the 'leash' of energy I had sensed on the ravengers. It went to the back of the store where the horrible smell was coming from. I motion my brothers towards the door at the back of the showroom.

  The large double oak doors had runes and glyphs all over it. Some were painted on, some engraved, and some of them were just pure energy. Whoever had placed this here was very good at the art of runeology. Unfortunately, they weren't as effective with energy manipulation because most of the runes and glyphs were barely alive. Most of the energy had either seeped out or it wasn’t properly filled in the first place. My brothers waited for me to finish examining the door. I stood up and turned.

  "It is a masterfully protected door but it isn’t powered well. I can break what it has it will just take some time." I said turning back to the door. I start chanting a spell that I had learned from Roland that was designed to reveal the intricate weave of the spells on the door. All the runes and glyphs started glowing with my green energy and I could see the nexus points that helped bind the spells together. I spent the next twenty minutes dismantling the nexus points. A few times I accidently tripped a part of the door and got blasted with the feedback. I finish breaking the nexus points and the entire spell finally unravels and the runes go dark. The doors burst open as 6 ravengers barrel through the entryway. A wave of dark energy spilled from behind them making the inside of the auction house get even darker than it was. We quickly dispatch the ravengers and turn back to the open doorway. A large black wispy smoke like entity billowed out of the darkness. The eyes were yellow lights and the mouth was wide menacing smile. The mouth didn’t move when it spoke.

  "Finally, I am free. Thank you for releasing me from my prison." Its voice was very wispy and mischievous. "What can I ever do to repay you. Power? Do you want power? No, I can feel that you three have more power than any other human I have ever met. Though every other human I met was either a collector or dead, turned by the power of my aura into a ravenger. So, what do you want? Info on how to defeat the demons. Yes, that is what I can offer." The corporeal form just hung there making no threatening gestures with its ghostly fingers laced together.

  "What the hell are you? Why were you locked up? Shyft stepped forward. The entity smiled and said

  "Well that is a very difficult question. I am the living magick of this book." It motions to a large leather book caught in the tail of the ghostly form. "I have no name and was never even intended to exist. Because of the nature of my energy I have been attributed with evil but I just want to live my life. As to why I was locked up it plays into what I said my energy is the cause of catastrophe if it isn't contained." The shadow shrugs. There was something off about this entity and I did not fully trust it.

  I look at my brothers and send them a thought

  Baker shrugs and replies with

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