Read The Elementalist : Next of Kin: The Kothian Chronicles for Free Online

enemy had no such qualms about attacking again, doing so by releasing several more volleys of arrows. Ramon hoped his defences would give enough cover against such attacks, although he did see at least one man succumb to it. Knowing he had to think quickly, he gave a predefined signal to a group of his linked magicians, as two of the groups merged to make one larger one.
     
    With five men linked via his left hand and five via his right, Ramon had to pause and wait for the right moment. Having never actually attempted what he was about to do while linked, nor on anything but a few rats, he was not even sure how well it would work, if at all. Feeling the combined energy of the magicians slowly and carefully run through his body, he waited until he thought he could hold no more. With the knowledge that too much power sent to him could and would, likely kill him in an instant, he tried to judge a happy medium. Enough to cause the spell to be powerful, not so much that he risked his own life casting it.
     
    Ramon raised his hands and concentrated as if his life depended on it. Discovering his ability to see into the future, was a similar kind of power to those controlling minds, he had started experimenting. After his moral dilemma about practicing on another human being, he had decided to use rats instead. However, in his trials he had failed miserably to control the minds of even the smallest creatures, what he did discover was something he could only describe as a side effect of him trying, and it was this very side effect that he hoped to produce on a much larger scale right now.
     
    A heavenly glowed appeared around his body as he started to release the mass of energy siphoned to him. Focusing on the minds of the enemy just a few hundred yards in front of him, he sent forth that power. Within just a second or two, the centre of the enemy infantry lines collapsed. Shields and swords dropped to the ground as men held their hands to their heads, screaming in agony. Unfortunately, it also affected those Kothians captured by the enemy teleporters, but as far as Ramon had worked out, the effect would eventually wear off.
     
    After barely ten seconds of casting the spell, Ramon ceased, his stored power all but depleted, as were those that had channelled theirs into him. He felt his legs wobble, and knowing he had played his main hand, he watched on wearily as hundreds of the enemy were floored, rolling around the ground in pain. Those enemy troops not affected cautiously, but quickly retreated, not sure how to react to such terrible magical powers. What they did not, or could not know, were that even if Ramon wanted to repeat the procedure, he would not be doing so anytime soon.
     
    With his energy all but spent, Ramon had risked all, and thankfully, it had bought him a victory, not an outright one, but a victory nonetheless.  With the remainder of the Bosarian troops moving back as far the outskirts of the town, Ramon gave a weary signal to his captain. The man nodded, and gave the order for the more regular soldiers, to advance from the relative safety of their defensive positions. With swords out, they covered the ground swiftly towards those enemy soldiers still paralysed by Ramon’s spell. 
     
    Those Bosarian invaders were swiftly put from their misery, as the Kothian soldiers swarmed amongst them. Those captured by the teleporters a little earlier in the battle were helped to their feet, and taken to the healers; although there was little they could do aside from make them comfortable. The pain would subside in an hour or two, and they would be no worse for wear.
     
    Ramon knew if the enemy returned anytime soon, he had depleted not only himself, but also a good number of his more powerful magicians, and would have little left to fight them with. Only fear of the unknown would keep the enemy away from them, how long that would be, Ramon guessed only time would tell. With the battle at Denley taking much longer than he