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While Sunbright fights with brutal instinct against overwhelming numbers, Candlemas struggles to defend himself using frantic, spell-driven tactics that turn monsters into targets for destructive magic. 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You said so yourself!\"  \n\"Not if Karsus succeeds!\" She gazed at her cousin, who shouted threats at the ceiling as he floated higher. \"He will ascend to godhood and save the city! Save the empire! He's the greatest mage . . .\"  \nCandlemas only stared, unsure if his lover was trying to convince him, or herself. Then her words were lost as the building's ceiling blew off.  \nTons of stone, slate, timber beams, granite, carved cornices, and other elements exploded upward like wheat chaff. High up, yet almost close enough to touch, frowned the cloud face of Lady Mystryl, Controller of the Weave, the stuff of all magics. And facing her, still shouting, was the presumptuous mage who would steal her power, usurp her place, walk into the firmament and take the throne of the gods themselves.  \nThe Netheril Trilogy  \nClayton Emery  \nSwordPlay  \nDangerous Games  \nMortal Consequences  \n(available April 1997)  \nDangerous Games  \nClayton Emery  \nDedicated to Seamus, Powerhouse of the South  \nChapter 1  \n\"There! It's nice to be—\"  \n\"Move!\"  \nThe pudgy wizard was knocked flying by a shove from the tall, scarred barbarian. Candlemas caromed off a table, slipped, and crashed to the workshop floor. The stumble saved his life, for a monstrous red insect had leaped to the table, scattering jars and crockery and priceless artifacts, clashing steely mandibles to snap the arcanist's head off.  \nFighting instinct saved the barbarian's life. Mistrusting magic, Sunbright had unsheathed his sword before Candlemas could invoke the shift spell. One minute they'd been standing ina dusky rainy forest then, at a fast-rattled spell, they were whisked to a cluttered workshop with high, airy windows—a room besieged by a horde of rust-red insects as big as wild hogs.  \nHad Sunbright thought about danger, he would have been dead long ago. Reared on the tundra, where death was always just a whisker away, he reacted instinctively, attacking the menaces with might and sinew and the fighting agility bred deep into his bones. Training seized his hands and body. Before Candlemas even recognized the threat, Sunbright had attacked half a dozen marauders.  \nThe great hooked sword Harvester of Blood flashed as Sunbright fell to slaughter. The insects were thick in the body and hunchbacked, like giant fleas. They were giant fleas, he realized. Myriad scuttling legs were pointed as daggers, claws bore pincers like a scorpion's, mouth-mandibles were jagged as broken razors. A dozen insects rushed the two men. Sunbright was hard-pressed to beat them back, both from himself and from the chunky Candlemas, whom the barbarian considered helpless.  \nThe first insect to chomp onto Sunbright's iron-ringed moosehide boot lost its head to a downward slash. But even that was difficult, for their carapaces were thick as boiled-leather shields and they had few vital organs to shear. Sunbright barely wrenched Harvester free before another flea hopped up and clamped onto the barbarian's unprotected thigh. Yowling with sudden pain, Sunbright batted the thing from underhand, bowling it aside and slashing off four legs like brittle jackstraws. Yet the bug ripped a hunk of flesh free as it tumbled to land, upside down and twitching. The bug's blood was thick, reddish, pasty, and smelled acrid as burning garbage. Their alien smell filled the room, until Sunbright felt like some fly blundered into a spiderweb. He tried not to think about being sucked dry of blood, or being paralyzed and eaten alive ... slowly.  \nScreaming a northern challenge, he slammed his great sword between the jaws of a charging insect, felt the hook hang up in the tough carapace of the skull. He stamped his boot into a face with multifaceted eyes—then a bounding bug crashed on his back, sent him sprawling, knocking his breath out.  \nKneeling under the","cbCaiq0iA6pTvriU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiq0iA6pTvriU","pdf",888925,147,"English","# Chapter 1\n## Immediate ambush in the workshop\n## Sunbright versus the giant flea-like insects\n## Candlemas uses wormhole magic to fight back","[{\"question\":\"Where does Chapter 1 begin, and what triggers the danger?\",\"answer\":\"It begins in a workshop during a tense moment, then turns suddenly catastrophic when the ceiling and surrounding structure are attacked, revealing an infestation of giant insects.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Sunbright fight the giant insect attackers?\",\"answer\":\"He relies on swordsmanship and close-quarters combat, cutting down multiple attackers despite getting injured as the creatures overwhelm his defenses.\"},{\"question\":\"What does Candlemas do to survive the insect attack?\",\"answer\":\"He uses instinctive magic, including a spell that creates a wormhole to drill through a nearby insect and destroy it before it can kill him.\"}]","Dangerous Games - Book 2 of the Netheril Trilogy - Chapter 1 | PDF",1789965189,226]