Elix's Arc

Chapter 1 of 2

Elix climbed the ridge with steady steps, his mind set on the road to Illendia and the queen he had sworn to save. Halfway up, his boot caught on something hard. He knelt and brushed away the dirt. A stone tablet lay buried there, its surface covered in strange carved symbols. He pulled the tablet free. The ground shook hard beneath him. Above, a huge boulder broke loose from the cliff and tumbled straight down toward him. Elix threw up his hand on pure instinct. The boulder stopped in the air, hanging an arm's length from his face. He stared at his open palm. The symbols on the tablet glowed faintly, and he understood them, word for word. He set the boulder gently aside and felt the new power humming under his skin. Further up the slope, Elix found a wide wooden platform marked with a painted star, ringed by small objects clearly meant for practice. Someone had been waiting for a person like him. He stepped onto the platform and began to test what he could do. His road to the queen had just changed.