The Cloud of Darkness (The Ingenairii Series Book 11)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“My lord!” Cuck, the senior Spiritual ingenairii shouted excitedly.

Alec went across the trampled field to respond to the man.

“My lord,” Cuck reached out and took Alec’s had.

I feel the evil, my lord.  It is growing stronger
, he informed Alec.

“Everyone!” Alec shouted.  “Be ready.  Something may be about to happen.”

“I feel something, but I don’t know if it’s evil, or,” the second Spiritual ingenairii, Lair, hesitated, “perhaps I’m confusing your powers with the evil?” he questioned his own senses.

“It’s very dark in the forest over there!” an ingenairii on the left side shouted.

All heads turned to look at the blackness that consumed everything beyond the closest rows of tree trunks.  The black cloud burst out into the open field on the left, pressing forward across a wide front that was daunting in its scope.

The ingenairii froze momentarily, unable to process the emergence of such an unconventional and frightening adversary.  The reality of the confrontation crystalized into more than just an imaginary opponent for all the ingenairii who had lived in the sheltered life of the Ingenairii Hill campus to that point.  The acknowledgement of a violent battle to preserve their own lives exploded upon their consciousnesses, and they could not react for precious seconds.

“Fight!  Fight this thing!” Alec screamed.  He called upon his own energies, and released a bolt of bright white power that sizzled the air between two of the stunned, still Light ingenairii as it flew at and then struck the cloud.  The impact of the light caused a roiling pause of the advance in the immediate vicinity of Alec’s strike, while the rest of the cloud continued to move forward.

The sight of Alec’s action seemed to arouse the rest of the group, and a dozen flares of light flashed across the field, hitting the cloud with a volley that stopped the progress of the entire front line of the cloud, and caused momentary flashes of red light to luridly glow within the darkness.

Fantasy Series by Jeffrey Quyle

 

The Inner Seas Kingdoms Series

 

 

  1. The Healing Spring
  2. The Yellow Palace
  3. Road of Shadows
  4. A Foreign Heart
  5. Journey to Uniontown
  6. The Guided Journey
  7. An Unexpected Deity
  8. A Marriage of Friends

 

 

The Ingenairii Series

 

 

  1. Visions of Power

2. At the Seat of Power

3. The Loss of Power

4. The Lifesaving Power

5. Against the Empire

6. Preserving the Ingenairii

7. Rescuing the Captive

8. Ajacii and Demons

9. The Caravan Road

10. The Journey Home

11. The Cloud of Darkness

 

 

Alchemy’s Apprentice Series

 

  1. The Gorgon’s Blood Solution
  2. The Echidna’s Scale
  3. Scarlet from Gold
  4. The Southern Trail

 

 

The Southern Continent Series

 

  1. The Elemental Jewels
  2. Perilous Travels
  3. The Greater Challenge
  4. Out of the Wilderness

 

Also by Jeffrey Quyle

 

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The Cloud of Darkness

 

The Ingenairii Series

Book 11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeffrey Quyle

 

 

 

Index

 

 

 

Chapter 1                                                                                                   Page 1

Chapter 2                                                                                                   Page 4

Chapter 3                                                                                                   Page 9

Chapter 4                                                                                                   Page 23

Chapter 5                                                                                                   Page 35

Chapter 6                                          
                                                       
Page 46

Chapter 7                                                                                                   Page 54

Chapter 8                                                                                                   Page 81

Chapter 9                                                                                                   Page 86

Chapter 10                                                                                                   Page 93

Chapter 11                                                                                                   Page 101

Chapter 12                                                                                                   Page 108

Chapter 13                                                                                                   Page 114

Chapter 14                                                                                                   Page 133

Chapter 15                                                                                                   Page 135

Chapter 16                                                                                                   Page 142

Chapter 17                                                                                                   Page 150

Chapter 18                                                                                                   Page 156

Chapter 19                                                                                                   Page 162

Chapter 20                                                                                                   Page 167

Chapter 21                                                                                                   Page 176

Chapter 22                                                                                                   Page 180

Chapter 23                                                                                                   Page 189

Chapter 24                                                                                                   Page 193

Chapter 25                                                                                                   Page 203

Chapter 26                                                                                                   Page 209

Chapter 27                                                                                                   Page 215

Chapter 28                                                                                                   Page 219

 

List of Characters

 

 

Straysonate, lacerta stableboy, companion to Kecil

Bungacantik,formal name of Kecil, lacerta runaway girl from noble family

Anslow, bartender in northern village of Gallop

Gleese, Warrior ingenaire female apprentice

Pranger, Warrior ingenaire boy apprentice

Sister Glenne, member of Vincennes mission

Sister Lyster, member of Vincennes mission

Colonel Thyne, Ajax soldier in Vincennes

Hope, Lokasennii grandesteur

Dale, Junior officer of the dominion, stationed at Gallop

Cuck, Spiritual ingenaire, part of Gallop expedition

Kalie, Light ingenaire, part of Gallop expedition

Olivia, descendant chosen by Alec to be Regent of the Dominion

Lord Smaille, Old One of Exbury,, son of Aja

Coeur, Old One of Exbury, grandson of Aja

Aja, former traveling companion of Alec in the Twenty Cities

Gracloroan, lacerta guard officer at Chanradala palace

Kale, Healing Spring palace cook

Kora, Kale’s wife

 

 

 

 

 

Prologue

 

 

 

Alec advances through the ages, as he completes the tasks that God and his patron saint, John Mark, lay out for him and rely upon him to complete.

In the decades that follow his second and definitive defeat of the risen super-ingenaire, Hellmann, Alec and his wife Andi have jointly ruled the lands of the Dominion and Michian, restoring the norms of civil society as Alec believes is best.  And the two live their long decades of life happily.  They are bound together by a strongly-shared joint awareness.  They can communicate over great distances, they can share each other emotions, and can even recall one another’s memories.

But while Andi’s physical body eventually succumbs to the effects of the passage of time, Alec’s extraordinary frame continues to repair and restore itself, aging at only a fraction of the speed of Andi and the mortals around them.  And the time comes when Andi is no longer able to cheat Death.

Alec is left with a heavy heart and tries to turn to travel as a way to distract himself from the heavy solitude he feels with Andi’s passing.  But almost from the moment his journey begins, new adventures find him and draw him into a series of surprises, confrontations, and mysteries that bring him new distractions and companions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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