The Way of Edan (The Edan Trilogy, #1)

by Philip Chase

A moment later, flames erupted from the torches the sorcerers bore into a massive wall of fire, and the boiling conflagration washed over the foremost trolls before they hit the front line. The sorceress could make out the dark forms of the massive beasts writhing within the inferno, and their piteous wails carried far as they screamed their agony. The sorcerers kept up their barrier of fire, and it seemed to hold back the onrushing foe. But then, vast power surged somewhere in the distance. From further up the slope, behind the advancing Torrlonder army, a blinding flash exploded and fragmented the very sky, casting the world into a contrast of pure light and eerie shadow. From this wrathful explosion streaked a massive, jagged bolt of what seemed like lightning toward the Caergilese front line, writhing as it tore asunder the air. The earth exploded, and clods of soil, rocks, and bodies flew backward.