Chapter Twenty-FourThe councilors all stared in horror at the charred corpse that had appeared on the edge of the pentagram, almost ignoring Karag and Kubal.
“What happened?” Shandiph asked at last.
“He can control lightning,” Karag answered. He was shaking, the staff that was still clutched in his hands fluttering like a bird’s wing.
“How did you survive, then?”
“I don’t know. Kubal fled, and I tried to ward him off with the staff. I think it worked, at least temporarily.”
“Then the sword is not unbeatably powerful!” someone exclaimed.
Karag shook his head. “I have never seen so much power. I don’t mean just the sword, but the staff as well. It felt like a live thing in my hands. Without the magicks in this room, we wouldn’t have a chance. He made a storm from nothing with a single
