AEONS: THE GODS ARE DAMNED

Chapter 21

A rumble was heard and a wall split open; Lady Aelene steps into the room.
“There is another entrance?” Chase asked surprised
“Yes, in case”
“It has been a while, young Lord” Aelene said with a smile as she walked up to them, she greets Haemir with a nod and returns it.
“I have been busy”
“It looks like you will be busier from now on” Aelene said
“More trainings, am trying to cope”
“Or survive” Aelene said
“Yeah, or survive” Chase said and looked back at the paper. Aelene looked at the paper; she placed her hand on the drawings.
“I have seen these before” She said
“Where?” Haemir asked
“In a vision”
“When?” Haemir quizzed
“Last night, I couldn’t explain it and I wanted to find an explanation before telling the king”
“So you came to him, because he is good with constructions”
“I knew he would be here”
“Good, looks like we got our ‘pair of eyes from the future’ ”, Haemir said while facing Chase. Chase rolled his eyes.
"A gun needs gunpowder…and luckily for you I know just how to get it” Chase said looking at the paper.
“How?” Haemir asked with folded arms
“All we need is charcoal, saltpeter and sulphur” Chase said
“Those are easy to find, all I need to do is send words to the guards and servants and we can have a barn full by sunrise tomorrow” Haemir said
“Good, we need to re…construct your imagination of a gun” Chase said as he took a plain paper and sketched out a pistol; the pistol was quite large and it had a large mouth. It looked like an enlarged version of a Flintlock.
“I drew the mouth to be extra large to allow larger bullets, since monsters around here tend to have large body mass and…” he sketched a normal Flintlock on another plain paper, “…these babies can bring down a man sized target easily”
Haemir nodded, “this is like he explained”
Chase nodded, “Am not good with the mechanism behind…”
“I am, I have the experience, I will get it done” Haemir said
Aelene commented, “I think we should tell the king, I saw a war with these weapons at use”, Chase and Haemir nodded in agreement.
Haemir packs the papers and said, “Meet me at the royal meeting room”, they nodded in agreement; Aelene and Chase left through the second passage while Haemir went up the stairs back to his room.
*
“…if true this means that these weapons can deal more damage” Aranor said as he looked at the papers; all the members of the inner circle sat round the table, each checking several papers showing designs for the weapons.
“Not just more damage, it will push our realm into a whole new era, an era where weaponry will be more formidable; Erevale will have no rival in war; not even Kelpas can imagine what this can do.” Haemir explained enthusiastically.
“And how do we know what these can do?” Ralnor asked
“We will have to find out, we need the clarification to commence” Haemir said
“Should we risk what we don’t know its effect, especially with a new solution that has never been used…?” Itham said
Chase interrupted him, “I know it” they faced him, and he continued, “These are the kinds of weapons we use in my realm…” he takes a paper and shows them the diagram of the Flintlock on it, “…this pistol will bring down a man faster than an arrow will, a bullet from this, can move over 5 times the speed of an arrow, and it pierces better… a weapon like this, will not just turn the tides of war, it will turn the tides of technology”.
They all sat silently until Aranor spoke, “You have full access to every equipment and any amount of help you might need, I want these weapons created, let me know when it is to be tested”.
With a smile, Chase and Haemir shot up from their seats and packed the paper, as they were about to leave Ralnor’s voice rung out, “That doesn’t mean you will miss any class Chase”, Chase stopped, looked back and nodded before he tagged with Haemir and left.
*
That night Haemir had gathered as much ingredient as he could; workmen built several buildings, charcoal, sulphur and saltpeter were stored in tons. By the time they had hauled enough, Chase went back to his room tired; he crashed on his bed and slept off.
*****
He opened his eyes to see that he was standing on a rock; he looked around and shouted, “Alinar!”
Alinar’s voice appeared just feet away from the base of the rock, “You might want to come down from up there”
“I know you dropped me here for a reason”
“I might have, just come down” Alinar said and walked away
“Come on, seriously?” He sighed and jumped down, only to see that he didn’t land at the base of the rock but instead he landed right beside Alinar; he looked back to the rock and saw it in the distance.
“Don’t be surprised, Physics doesn’t work here if we don’t want it to” Alinar said; Chase quickly walked up to him and walked beside him.
“So what am I here for today? Paraphysics?” Chase said as they walked into a clearing.
“There is not enough time to train you; I came to adjust that” Alinar said
“You…want to train me?”
“Time passes slower here; we can train for longer time than you can get in the real world”
“Cool, when do we start”
“Now” Alinar said and walked into the clearing, he then faced Chase, “Aeons are known to gain their power from planes of existence, majorly from the very plane of existence they are at that current time”
“So we draw power from the universe we stand in”
“More like from the realm, like now, you can only draw power from this…dream world but not from the real world, and if you are in the real world, you can only draw power from the real world and not from the dream world”
“So the more magic running through that world am standing in determines how powerful I will be”
“Yes, and I can show you how to draw power from the realm you stand in”
“How?” Chase said and entered the clearing with him.
“Watch and Learn” Alinar said with a smile.
*
“…We have loaded at least 20 cartloads of sulphur and saltpeter and we have loaded up to 50 cartloads of charcoal”, the head workman told Haemir
He nodded, “I need you to pick at least 100 men and blacksmiths,” places a construction sketch on the man’s hand, “I want the mould for this ready by the morrow”
The man took the sketch and bowed, “As you wish, Lord Haemir”, he turned on his heel and walked away.
Ralnor approached as the work man left, “Where is your protégé?” He joked, “Did he drop out at the least expected time?”
“No, he went to sleep, he did well today”
“I suppose he did….you might want to keep an eye on him, you were meant to train him…”
“And I will” Haemir interrupted and walked away to check on the other workers.
Ralnor shook his head and shouted after Haemir, “Just make sure you remind him that he is not here for a science project” But Haemir didn’t look back or answer.
*****
The days went faster, soon the entirety of Erevale was under a new technology revolution; news spread o’er the lands and seas; the Midland Kings sent messages to King Aranor to share the secret but no, Aranor kept it a secret, until he was sure Erevale was lots of steps ahead.
*
“…Good, it seems like you will begin a much more difficult part of your powers now”, Eldrin said in praise
“And what is that?” Chase said as he sat, drenched in sweat.
“Channeling of mystical energy, time you learn how to draw power from things that is different from a man”
“Like a realm” Chase said looking up to him.
Eldrin nods, “You have been reading”
"All the time”
“You mean when you are not hovering over Hycis” Eldrin joked
“What, come on, I haven’t been hovering…just learning from her, she knows a lot of things”
“Learning by hovering”
“Come on Eldrin, she’s just a friend; so let’s get this over with” Chase changed the subject. Suddenly they heard a huge explosion and stopped for a second or so. “Cannon”, Chase said and Eldrin nodded
‘Let’s begin; drawing power from a realm is similar to…”
“Drawing power from an artifact or man or being, yeah I know; already read the basics of it, you will be surprised at the amount of information you can get from books in the library”
“So have you been practicing?”
Chase smiled, “That I have”…