The Spell of Binding (Part One) by Glen Johnson Read Free Book Online Page B

small stone space that rested on the very edge of the main citadel that overlooked the barren Aratta Plains below that he spent endless hours, studying and reminiscing; in the section of the city called Nimrods Tower. The room had stone shelves that encompassed t wo walls; all filled with ancient manuscripts and tattered books, leaving just two wall s, one for the window and one for the door. His old battered table faced out the window, pressed right up against it. A collection of writing implements and paper was all that sat on the desk; paperwork related to the running of the largest human city, and eleven others like it dotted around the inhabitable world, and the hundreds of towns and small villages –all were dotted about on the worlds Energy Grid.
    An ancient writer called Plato first had the theory that the world had specific energy points that could be harnessed. The world was dissected by simple geometric shapes , then in to more complicated geometric shapes; these are known as Platonic Solids. There were five types, each representing one of the five known elements : Cube – Earth, Tetrahedron –Fire, Octahedron –A ir, I cosahedron –Water, and the last, little know element; Dodecahedron –Ether. Each one of these shapes , when slotted next to each other, created an all encompassing energy field that is the very basis of e arth, holding it all together.
    Each city was sat on one of the worlds twelve major connecting points in the Platonic Solid grid. Altogether there are sixty-five major points; a few were being used by the demons. Some were under miles of solid ice or underwater. Others were on the tip s of mountains, thrust up by the changing world.
    It had taken years of study to find the locations, because of the polar-shift and continental buckling. But with ancient methods, using Ley Lines, Curry Lines, Hartmann Lines and Black Lines, and finding a carving in an ancient temple of the Becker-Hagens Grid Map, along with powerful location spells, he had eventually narrowed the locations down, pinpointing them on today’s world, the same way the ancients Europeans did when they positioned Stonehenge, the Egyptians with their pyramids, the Rapa Nui’s monolith standing stones called Moai, on Easter Island, the South Americans with their Nazca Lines, and the Latin Americans and the city in Teotihuacán, and the Chaco culture. All used ancient arts to locate the worlds Energy Grid and to use it to their benefit. The same way that the main city used the earths own power, mixed with their powerful rune magic, to protect all inside its walls .
    Simeon had been one of the first to study the ancient ideas, spending decades collecting information that had survived the Great War and ravishes of time and eventually indoctrinating it into their own understanding of the world. Luckily for them the ancients had been obsessed with writing everything down; tens of millions of books, all carrying the knowledge of their time. Much of their understanding of what happened had been pieced together by Simeon , this was one of the reasons he got on to the Council of Seven , and how he eventually be came the head of the c ouncil.
    But nowadays being the head of the mag i was more bureaucracy than anything else. He had to k eep records of those governing the cities , and records of the food and water supplies, and census of civilians and magi.
    It was much more interesting decades ago, but e verything that could be found out about the Great War and the reasons for it happening –and anything else they could learn and use –had all been accomplished. The world was at a dead end. Now it was simply a matter of survival; seeing how long mankind could survive against the creatures that hunted them.
    The old sorcerer slowly lowered himself down in to the padded seat, and pulled the robe around his white knobberly knees for warmth. He could’v e made the sign of a basic rune and warmed the small room, but he wouldn’t be here for