Illusions 5

Jace did not flinch as Zarek punctured his body with a stroke of lightning; he merely walked toward Zarek, holding his stare. As he neared Zarek, he stepped around him and marched up to the gate.

Jace walked directly through the lightning barrier and disappeared into the darkness of the archway.

The diversion worked. Zarek spun with disbelief, looking through the gate to find Jace, but he saw nothing but the dark passage beyond. He waved open an aperture in the bars of lightning and ran after him. That’s when Jace—the real Jace, the invisible Jace who had sent his illusionary self through the gate before him—slipped through the barrier. He had to crouch quietly in the shadows in the passageway, his cloak dripping, concentrating on maintaining the illusion and letting Zarek get some distance ahead of him.

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Dragon's Maze: The Secretist Part 3, Chapter 9