In Wildfire, Book II of Darker Matter, the Dyroshin fear that their most dreaded prophecy did not conclude when the Destroyer of Worlds and the Outlander clashed in an epic magical battle that destroyed the rift between worlds.
But before it’s destruction, an immensely powerful being from a malign conquering race born of Black Metal found its way into the portal and now the Five Lands are again under threat but this time from two foes of unimaginable might.
There is only one weapon that may be effective, but it has been lost in antiquity and the very quest for its discovery is perilous and becomes a desperate fight for survival.
Extract from Book II – Wildfire
Prologue
The Dark Forest slumbered. Slowly expanding in size, its mighty trees grew, and
their offspring greedily sent down roots, deeper and deeper, feeding on the lush
nutrients that lay beyond the reach of other plants and trees. Smaller and nonnative trees were quickly crowded out until all that remained was a single
species. Tall, long lived, and strong, their dense canopy allowed little light to
pass through, shrouding the forest in a preternatural gloom. Just enough light
escaped the grasp of the canopy to provide meagre sustenance for a few species
of dark-leaved shrubs, and the hardiest of grasses to survive. Few animals strayed
into the forest, and those that did were soon assimilated by it.
As the forest grew, the roots of the trees forming its periphery by chance dug
into the ceiling of an underground cavern that was filled with water. But this was
no ordinary water. It had percolated through a vein of the purest White Metal
from rains that had fallen countless eons ago. During its slow osmosis, the White
Metal imbued the water with its potency, changing it in the process and endowing
it with its magical power. The water absorbed this energy, trapping it deep within
the bonds between the elements that formed its substance. But these bonds were
delicate, making the water volatile.
The hungry roots of the trees absorbed the transformed water, and as it
flowed upwards through the mighty trees, it released its magic into every branch,
leaf, and bud. The cavern was vast, containing countless decalitres of magically
infused water. Soon, the roots of other trees that lay deeper in the forest, sent out
their tendril like roots towards the cavern.
Outwardly the trees of the Dark Forest appeared the same as they always
had, but inwardly they began to change, transformed by the magic that surged
through them. Becoming more than they were before.
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Darker Matter is a fantasy book series where dangerous magic is wielded by beings of unimaginable might in an otherworldly realm.
Science fiction and magic combine in this epic fantasy tale that will appeal to fans of science fiction and epic magical fantasy.
The dramatic fight sequences draw on real martial arts, and street fighting techniques, making them deadly and believable.
The magical fantasy journey begins when a portal between worlds, akin to an inter-galactic wormhole, or inter-dimensional wormhole, is created by a powerful otherworldly magic, that leads to a world alien to our own.
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