Age of Iron: A LitRPG Dungeon Core Adventure (Rise of Mankind Book 3) by Jez Cajiao

Author:Jez Cajiao [Cajiao, Jez]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MAH Publishing's Ltd
Published: 2022-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

Aaron

With a final boom, the courtyard gate was smashed from its hinges, the ornamental steel and fake golden scrollwork falling inwards to crash to the floor. The sound rang out as the residents backed away, slamming their doors and dragging furniture and more to block the corridors.

Aaron clambered across the top of the sofa, landing on the far side next to his parents and squeezing in between them. His younger muscles made enough of a difference that the three of them managed to get the old oak frame to move again. Its feet scoured deep gashes in the expensive wood floor that, on any other occasion, would have had his mother alternately weeping and swearing eternal vendetta.

They managed to wedge the far end against the door to the private courtyard, then tilted the other end against the ornamental plinth at the bottom of the stairwell. Wedging it in tight, they made sure that, no matter what, nobody would be coming in through that door.

As soon as that was in place, they moved into the lounge as one, the heavy Victorian cabinet that had been part of his mother’s inheritance, once proudly polished and displayed, now stood ready by the window, and they shifted it into place as well.

“My friends, there is no need for this . . .” came the voice of the creature that now called itself Daedalus.

Aaron froze, the hairs on the back of his neck lifting and sweat breaking out across his body as the voice went on.

“Twice now I’ve come to you, offering the hand of friendship, my protection as I establish the new order. Twice now, you’ve refused. Be warned . . . this is the last time I’ll offer.”

“Please, just let us be!”

Aaron bit his lip, shaking his head in negation as his father spoke in a hoarse whisper.

“He’s opened his door, the old fool!”

Aaron’s mother, Marjorie, hissed in disbelief. “He hasn’t!”

“He has—he’s going to talk to . . . to . . .”

“That thing!” Marjorie whispered in horrified scorn.

“Yes!” Thomas whispered.

“Come on, let’s close it off!” Aaron pleaded.

“No, we have to wait, see if he manages to talk some sense into that creature. I’m not damaging a priceless artifact just because—”

“Just to save our lives, Mother!” Aaron hissed back. “It’s only our lives!”

“Don’t you take that tone with me, young man! Old Reginald might talk it down yet, and then we’d be left with holes in the . . .” Aaron tuned her out, setting his feet and huffing out a long breath, putting his back into it as he started the cabinet moving on his own.

“Aaron!” Thomas snapped. “I need to hear this. It could be important, and—” His complaint was cut off by a rising, bubbling scream.

Terrified, Aaron jammed his eye to a slim gap in the wood, staring through and out into the formerly safe, private, gated compound.

The creature that called itself Daedalus stepped into the middle of the courtyard as another, much larger figure, all exposed bones and multiple arms, moved in front of it and crouched.

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