NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 1780901" data-attributes="member: 143">Thanks!  It gets better... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />* * * * * Chapter 231With their primary method for defeating his greater invisibility gone, the tactical advantage shifted from the companions to Kaurophon.  The sorcerer had clearly spent as much time studying them as they had spent watching him; now he used that information to good advantage.  And he had lots of spells left. Dannel, Hodge, Arun, and Morgan rushed in at the position that Zenna had indicated, forming a collapsing half-circle in an attempt to pin down the invisible sorcerer.  Dannel lunged at a soft voice, as Kaurophon began yet another spell, and finally was rewarded by a solid contact as Alakast penetrated the sorcerer’s layered defenses and scored a solid hit.  Kaurophon’s mixed heritage served him ill here as the staff’s bane power did what it was created to do, and he staggered back, hissing in pain.  Arun and Hodge were there quickly, but Kaurophon maintained his concentration, and finished his spell, opening a dimension door that took him out of the closing circle. “He’s gone again!” Arun said, as Hodge swept the area with the shaft of his spear. “No...” Zenna said, even as she heard a soft voice behind her. “It is only fitting that you should be my sacrifice,” he said.  “You, who are closest among these to what I am...”“He’s here!” Zenna cried out, knowing that the others would not get there in time.  A powerful surge of magic struck her, stronger than anything she’d ever felt before.  She felt it closing around her body like some great invisible fist.  Instinct took over, and she hurled her will against the spell.  All of her mental discipline, all of the painstaking discoveries she’d made in becoming what she was, all of it flashed in a fraction of a heartbeat against the full force of Kaurophon’s power.  And then, the spell was gone, failed. “Perhaps I underestimated you,” came the voice.  But I suppose another of weaker will shall suffice...”A cry turned her attention around, behind her.  Her eyes widened in horror as she saw Mole hurled into the air, flung across the room by Kaurophon’s magic...Directly toward the plasma geyser. Mole screamed.</blockquote>

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