Theandra had imbibed the contents of one “Elixir of the Stars,” “Elixir of Enhancement,” and “Elixir of The Future.” Her Magick became much more potent. The liquids in the phials had given her the energy to reach the hideaway in just over a day. She had left three identical phials with Merinde. The Elixirs were protected in a Bag of Concealment and to be given to Theandra and Areniel’s daughter Cherilynn when she reached maturity. Enhancements bequeathed by the Elixirs of Mastery of Magick passed to progeny. Only one True Wish phial now remained within the little box. The inestimable power of a single unrestricted Wish Spell…Ninth Level Magick… remained at her disposal. Theandra placed the box back into the Bag of Concealment.
Theandra quickened her pace and within an hour was standing within sight of the walls of Ylysis. The wall walk on the outer curtain of the massive fortress teemed with movement. She uttered another brief incantation and conjured up an opaque globe of shimmering spheres. The colors appeared in the order of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The different colors flashed in a repeating pattern every heartbeat. The brilliance of the colors blinded anything in the immediate vicinity of the ten-pace diameter sphere. She moved about within the sphere and commanded it to move forward. She conjured and crushed a small clay shield in her left hand. A large translucent shield appeared and moved two paces in front of her. She began to move forward. The guards upon the wall-walk surrounding Ylysis witnessed the formation of the Shimmering Spheres. The colors were beautiful but unnerving at the same time. The general appearance was that of a rainbow rolling toward the castle. From Ylysis’s allure two robed figures rained more than two score spells upon Theandra’s spheres and only minimally weakened them. The taller robed figure left the wall walk. The sorcerer of shorter stature persisted with three more spells, and then disappeared.
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