The Cloud of Darkness (The Ingenairii Series Book 11)
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Authors: Jeffrey Quyle
“My lord!” Cuck, the senior Spiritual ingenairii shouted excitedly.
Alec went across the trampled field to respond to the man.
“My lord,” Cuck reached out and took Alec’s had.
I feel the evil, my lord. It is growing stronger
, he informed Alec.
“Everyone!” Alec shouted. “Be ready. Something may be about to happen.”
“I feel something, but I don’t know if it’s evil, or,” the second Spiritual ingenairii, Lair, hesitated, “perhaps I’m confusing your powers with the evil?” he questioned his own senses.
“It’s very dark in the forest over there!” an ingenairii on the left side shouted.
All heads turned to look at the blackness that consumed everything beyond the closest rows of tree trunks. The black cloud burst out into the open field on the left, pressing forward across a wide front that was daunting in its scope.
The ingenairii froze momentarily, unable to process the emergence of such an unconventional and frightening adversary. The reality of the confrontation crystalized into more than just an imaginary opponent for all the ingenairii who had lived in the sheltered life of the Ingenairii Hill campus to that point. The acknowledgement of a violent battle to preserve their own lives exploded upon their consciousnesses, and they could not react for precious seconds.
“Fight! Fight this thing!” Alec screamed. He called upon his own energies, and released a bolt of bright white power that sizzled the air between two of the stunned, still Light ingenairii as it flew at and then struck the cloud. The impact of the light caused a roiling pause of the advance in the immediate vicinity of Alec’s strike, while the rest of the cloud continued to move forward.
The sight of Alec’s action seemed to arouse the rest of the group, and a dozen flares of light flashed across the field, hitting the cloud with a volley that stopped the progress of the entire front line of the cloud, and caused momentary flashes of red light to luridly glow within the darkness.
Fantasy Series by Jeffrey Quyle
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- The Healing Spring
- The Yellow Palace
- Road of Shadows
- A Foreign Heart
- Journey to Uniontown
- The Guided Journey
- An Unexpected Deity
- A Marriage of Friends
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- Visions of Power
2. At the Seat of Power
3. The Loss of Power
4. The Lifesaving Power
5. Against the Empire
6. Preserving the Ingenairii
7. Rescuing the Captive
8. Ajacii and Demons
9. The Caravan Road
10. The Journey Home
11. The Cloud of Darkness
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- The Gorgon’s Blood Solution
- The Echidna’s Scale
- Scarlet from Gold
- The Southern Trail
The Southern Continent Series
- The Elemental Jewels
- Perilous Travels
- The Greater Challenge
- Out of the Wilderness
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The Cloud of Darkness
The Ingenairii Series
Book 11
Jeffrey Quyle
Index
Chapter 1 Page 1
Chapter 2 Page 4
Chapter 3 Page 9
Chapter 4 Page 23
Chapter 5 Page 35
Chapter 6
Page 46
Chapter 7 Page 54
Chapter 8 Page 81
Chapter 9 Page 86
Chapter 10 Page 93
Chapter 11 Page 101
Chapter 12 Page 108
Chapter 13 Page 114
Chapter 14 Page 133
Chapter 15 Page 135
Chapter 16 Page 142
Chapter 17 Page 150
Chapter 18 Page 156
Chapter 19 Page 162
Chapter 20 Page 167
Chapter 21 Page 176
Chapter 22 Page 180
Chapter 23 Page 189
Chapter 24 Page 193
Chapter 25 Page 203
Chapter 26 Page 209
Chapter 27 Page 215
Chapter 28 Page 219
List of Characters
Straysonate, lacerta stableboy, companion to Kecil
Bungacantik,formal name of Kecil, lacerta runaway girl from noble family
Anslow, bartender in northern village of Gallop
Gleese, Warrior ingenaire female apprentice
Pranger, Warrior ingenaire boy apprentice
Sister Glenne, member of Vincennes mission
Sister Lyster, member of Vincennes mission
Colonel Thyne, Ajax soldier in Vincennes
Hope, Lokasennii grandesteur
Dale, Junior officer of the dominion, stationed at Gallop
Cuck, Spiritual ingenaire, part of Gallop expedition
Kalie, Light ingenaire, part of Gallop expedition
Olivia, descendant chosen by Alec to be Regent of the Dominion
Lord Smaille, Old One of Exbury,, son of Aja
Coeur, Old One of Exbury, grandson of Aja
Aja, former traveling companion of Alec in the Twenty Cities
Gracloroan, lacerta guard officer at Chanradala palace
Kale, Healing Spring palace cook
Kora, Kale’s wife
Prologue
Alec advances through the ages, as he completes the tasks that God and his patron saint, John Mark, lay out for him and rely upon him to complete.
In the decades that follow his second and definitive defeat of the risen super-ingenaire, Hellmann, Alec and his wife Andi have jointly ruled the lands of the Dominion and Michian, restoring the norms of civil society as Alec believes is best. And the two live their long decades of life happily. They are bound together by a strongly-shared joint awareness. They can communicate over great distances, they can share each other emotions, and can even recall one another’s memories.
But while Andi’s physical body eventually succumbs to the effects of the passage of time, Alec’s extraordinary frame continues to repair and restore itself, aging at only a fraction of the speed of Andi and the mortals around them. And the time comes when Andi is no longer able to cheat Death.
Alec is left with a heavy heart and tries to turn to travel as a way to distract himself from the heavy solitude he feels with Andi’s passing. But almost from the moment his journey begins, new adventures find him and draw him into a series of surprises, confrontations, and mysteries that bring him new distractions and companions.