Dan's Wheel of Magic
Copyright© 2025 by Pars001
Chapter 18
Those with Dan
Ella - witch - fire
Bell - witch - water
En’tra - Dark elf - dark magic
Kim’ta - Light elf - light magic
Cre’sa - Dark Elf - dark magic
Tygan - Light elf - light magic
Gre’ta - blue dragon - electricity
Marlena - mer-maid - sound
Shae’ten - harpy - air
Danea - Felich - Nature
Anna - Golem - Earth
Aspects Dan has:
Fire-- 8 spells
Water/ice-- 7/6 spells
Dark Magic-- 7 spells
Light Magic, Life-- 7 spells
Light Magic protection --8 spells
Air 6 spells
Nature --6 spells
Electricity -- 7 spells
Time -- 6 spells
Dan shook his head as the pulling was back and a lot closer, though it still seemed a ways off yet. He thought about it a moment, then thought, who in the hell is this?
A moment later, he got a few words, though nothing else. This is ... your power ... can’t ... destroyed. Then there was nothing, though the last word that he got was slightly worrying him.
He had asked the females but none of them had ever heard of anything like he had described. Dan sighed, another perplexing mystery that it seemed he was going to have to solve.
They all started forward for a few hours ‘til they were near the area where the pig-like soldiers had attacked. This had Dan, then most of the rest of the females on high alert.
They had just passed the exact spot where Dan had fought when they all heard stomping and grunting noises. They kept on forward ‘til they turned a corner beside a lot of boulders.
Dan rolled his eyes as they cleared the rocks before them were another ten of the pig-like soldiers. All ten of them squealed as they saw Dan, then all the females with him.
“Lunch and fun, boys, I’ll kill him, you strip the bitches,” the leader said as he watched Dan pull his sword.
The leader’s eyes narrowed as he stared at Dan’s sword. Dan turned to the females whispering, “I want all of you to use your sword attacks, then I’ll take the rest.”
Dan watched in satisfaction as the regular pig soldiers were hit with several spells. Incinerate and water sword were first, followed by light and shadow swords. Dan knew that they might not be strong enough, but they would distract the weaker soldiers.
He then watched the light and shadow blast hit them. Next was air razor, wooden spears, sound blast and earth. It was the last though that Gre’ta used that stopped them for a bit.
Her double electric blast actually fried three of the soldiers where they were. The rest, unable to block, dropped stunned spasming on the ground.
“Hmmm, too bad your magic tricks won’t stop me. You might have a mock-up of the strongest human sword, but it won’t do you any good,” the leader said.
“You know, you talk way too damn much,” Dan said. The leader smirked and attacked far faster than he thought he could.
Dan’s rapid block of the forward thrust made the leader smile a tiny bit. “Ah, so not a waste of time as much, though,” Here he looked at Dan with contempt. “This is still a waste of an elite guardsman’s time. You don’t have the strength or skill to,” the leader said as Dan took it’s left ear.
A huge smile lit up the pig soldier leader’s face. “Like I said, you talk too damn much,” he said in all seriousness.
The leader touched where its ear had been, then licked the blood off it’s hand. “Um mmm, perhaps you will be a challange after all.” With that, it came at Dan even faster with several overhand and side sweeps.
The leader continued on like that ‘til Dan caught it over extending and made a deep cut to the left arm. He then realized that he truly didn’t have the strength to keep this up for a long time.
“You have bitten off more than,” the leader started as Dan took his left arm off.
Dan realized that he needed to end this soon as my strength would fail him. A moment later, his sword started to glow then moved through a myriad of colors. He was shocked as the leader’s arm rapidly started to regrow.
The leader watched as the sword went from clear to brown, green, blue, then an intense red. It was when it glowed white, then a very dark ebony, that Dan could hear the leader whisper, “Eight aspects?” Then a huge smile came to its lips. “Finally, an enemy worthy of my skills, a grand mage. The prestige I will gain, will make life better.”
“Dead isn’t much of a life,” Dan said with a smirk.
“Dead? Oh no, you really think that you can win against all of this gorgeous body?” the leader asked, indicating all of himself. “I take it that you killed the last squad leader? Ha! I trained him years ago, he was never as good as I am,” the leader said, then tried a feint against Dan.
Dan then surprised him by taking the almost regrown arm, then a leg. The leader grimaced, as did Dan, the leader hit the ground. Then the leader smiled at him, “You can’t kill me.”
“Wanna make a bet,” Dan said as he took the leader’s startled head. “Hard to kill but not immortal, ass,” Dan said, then spit on the leader’s severed head.
Dan turned menacingly toward the soldiers and the females that were with him. He then took a step toward them as they all screamed and scurried away as fast as they could.
Dan looked at the sword as all the colors started to fade away. It was the looks of shock and slight fear on the females with him faces, that shocked him.
They all started to kneel before him, which Dan tried to stop. “Sir,” Gre’ta said from the ground. “We serve you no matter what mission you have. Most of us have seen your power we pledge ourselves to you.”
“I do not deserve,” he started, but was immediately interrupted.
“Dan,” Ella started, “You don’t realize just how powerful you are? Do you?”
Dan shook his head no as he started at the Eleven females before him. He was about to say more when he got messages, (member Ella gained Lava) (member Bell has gained ice tomb) (member Tygan gained withral healing) (member En’tra gained shadow sword) (member Shae’ten gained air sword) (member Danea gained plant guard).
Dan nodded his head as he read these. They were higher now and could start dealing more damage, good. “Well, it appears that a few of you are higher now, at least four are high mid-range.
The four in question, their mouths dropped open as they checked their stats. “I never thought I would ever raise this high,” Ella said.
Tygan and En’tra were also in shock at what they had. “I am no longer a low-level priestess,” En’tra said, to which Tygan agreed.
“You need to be careful,” Gre’ta said. “They will use more energy, your bodies will need to adjust.”
All three looked at Gre’ta as they listened intensely. “I am so far beyond many of my coven I am afraid that they may think I cheated somehow. I just hope that when we return we aren’t let go.”
Dan shook his head, “They’d be stupid to throw either of you away,” he indicated Ella and Bell. “Especially after all that the two of you have been through and learned.”
Ella sighed, “They can be like that a lot of the time.”
Dan could only shake his head at this piece of information. “My god, can they really be that stupid after all?”
Ella and Bell begrudgingly nodded their heads. “I’m afraid that they can be. The elders think that they know best.”
Dan again shook his head in amazement, “How in the hell have they survived as long as they have?”
Ella looked at him in wonder, then said, “There hasn’t been anyone to actually challenge them in a long time. I believe that I am stronger than ninety percent of the elders now. Might have a hard time of it when we get back.”
Dan’s face twisted into a look of anger, “not if I have anything to say about it.”
“Uh,” Bell started, “that might make things worse. Let us handle it first, then if it goes bad? Then you can, uh hum, correct their thoughts about it.”
A rather wicked smile passed over Dan’s features as he nodded. “That I think that I can do.”
“So, where are we headed?” Marlena asked. “We seem to be headed toward the Elven kingdom.”
“I’m not sure,” Dan started. “I am still feeling that compulsion that I was before. I asked it as I felt that someone was behind it, what I got was confusing. Hopefully the closer we get, the more I can find out.”
The rest of the females nodded, “We are in a more unknown area. Many of the Succubus clans live here, as do the Incubus. I believe you met one of the females before,” Gre’ta said.
Dan nodded then asked, “And the soldiers we met?”
“It is believed that they are the royal guard of the Incubus kingdom. It is said that they believe that they are undefeatable. A fact that you proved false, though this might anger them greatly,” Gre’ta said.
Dan nodded as he thought about this. “I figure as long as we don’t go to one of their cities or villages we should be good, right?”
Gre’ta thought for a few moments, then said, “I’m not sure, as they are magically attuned more than most. This that occurred here might draw more of them.”
“Great,” Dan said. “Just what we need, another army that we have to fight through.”
Gre’ta grimaced as she slightly agreed with Dan. “Perhaps though, with the defeat of two of their elite guards, they might not.”
Dan sighed, just once he wished that something went his way. Knowing his luck, he’d now attracted every warrior here in this land.
“We need to get as far as we can, who knows? The further perhaps, the less we will have to face,” Dan said with hope in his voice.
Dan’s face fell as he saw the look of doubt on Gre’ta’s face. “I am afraid, as you said, we are going to have to fight our way through this land.”
Dan just nodded in agreement as they kept forward, feeling several towns that they avoided. That’s why they were surprised when they rounded a corner and were faced with a succubus town.
All twelve of them stopped as they faced a huge contingent of the female demons. This was further compounded when Dan drew his sword, and it glowed with all the colors that it had before.
The leader of the group of Succubi pointed at them, then vanished from sight. Well, at least she did before Dan saw her moving toward him, her own sword drawn.
What came as an even bigger shock was when she stopped staring at Dan, who was staring at her. “How? I did not detect our power within you,” she said. “Wait! Nine aspects?”
The leader of the Succubi knelt before Dan, then he noticed that everything around them started to move normally. “I am really not wanting any to kneel to me, please,” Dan said.
There was a gasp from the multitude that were before them. Then another moved forward, “Is it him leader? The one prophesied to lead us out of the tyranny of the king?”