A Blade's Rebirth by D.K. Holmberg

Author:D.K. Holmberg [Holmberg, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2023-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

This whole process was getting more and more frustrating. Gavin felt as if he should have found answers by now, but everything kept leading him to roadblocks. Imogen had her Leier off searching for answers, the same way that Gavin and Gaspar would, but they kept running into more vents, and still had not been able to find the source of them.

They had found a few more dular who were collecting substrates, but Jayna had gone to deal with much of that. The Ashara had helped destroy as much of the remaining creatures as possible, which Gavin appreciated.

And now he was with Gaspar again.

Gavin had been convinced that there had to be others of the order involved, and had felt like he would need to stop them rather than continuing to close off the vents that had formed. Each time he found one, closed it off, and defeated the creatures there, he found himself growing increasingly annoyed by everything they were doing. It wasn’t even difficult to stop most of this. That was the most frustrating thing for him, as he would’ve expected that it would be much more difficult than it had been so far.

He scanned the field of destroyed creatures. Most of them were odd-looking monstrosities that were unlike anything they had ever dealt with before. Many were tall treelike figures with strange, spindly arms and gangly roots for legs that allowed them to walk. Gavin had a little more difficulty with them than he did with the stone creatures, which usually had the same dark energy he had handled when facing dark creatures in the past.

“Does it seem like this is both too easy and too difficult?” he asked Gaspar, who was wiping off his blades.

Gaspar’s arm was a mess of different enchantments, and given how many he was wearing and how he’d needed to use them, Gavin was a little concerned that most of the enchantments had already been spent. Not that Gaspar would tell him that. He also wore several necklaces and a few rings, and Gavin was convinced that Gaspar was wearing more in places he didn’t know about.

Gaspar scoffed. “Now you’re complaining about fights being too easy. I don’t know about you, but I’m happy when a fight goes well. Any fight we walk away from is a good one.”

“We’ve been able to easily walk away from all of these.” Not like the dular, he didn’t add. “And really, once we close off the vents, nothing has really posed much of a danger to us. Doesn’t that strike you as more than a little odd?”

Gaspar grunted as he crouched down next to one of the treelike creatures. They were willowy thin, and looked grayer in death than they were in life. Still, even once it had been destroyed, there was an energy that seemed to radiate from the creature.

“Something is pushing them through,” Gaspar said, “and given what we’ve run into before, I can only imagine that if we were to cross over, we would find that they were also present there.

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