Age of Steel (Rise of Mankind Book 4) by Jez Cajiao

Author:Jez Cajiao [Cajiao, Jez]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MAH Publishing's Ltd
Published: 2023-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

I was out for a day and a half, I was told later, waking up slowly, feeling like my brain was wrapped in cotton wool.

By the time I’d woken, and was staring around, totally confused, Kelly was sitting in a nice recliner by the side of my bed, drinking coffee from a mug that said I’m The Cool Aunt and relaxing, dressed in much more normal clothes than I was used to seeing.

“Are you okay?” I asked, my voice croaky as I sat upright, frowning around the bedroom I’d found myself in.

It was white and grey, mainly. The curtains, the furniture, and half the cushions were a kind of crushed velvet that looked as if it’d been very fashionable before the fall.

The wood was all light colors, the walls pristine and white; overall, combined with the sunlight that streamed in from the outside, it gave me a horrible few seconds of confusion, where I wondered whether I’d had a psychotic break and imagined everything.

Then the flashing notifications got my attention, and Kelly started to fill me in on everything that had happened.

The Battle for the Park, as it was referenced by most people, hadn’t ended with a bang after all. It was more like a whimper. Kelly had been overseeing things while Chris, Kilo, and I had been basically off our tits on magical amphetamines.

The bunker had been made, then the kids moved inside, while a pair of influence generators were moved up and slid along until they were on the other side of the wall from the battling gangs. As the fight continued next to it, the deaths began happening inside the dungeon’s radius and then…

Well.

It’d taken a single blow from one of the idiots against the wall to register as an “attack” on the dungeon, and the entire nature of the fight changed.

Suddenly we were earning massive amounts of mana from the “adventurers” who were battling on the dungeon’s territory, and Kelly got to work summoning kobolds and increasing the control generators.

They were equipped with the auto-reloading crossbows, then quietly moved up and along the wall, next to the fighting gangs. Kilo’s blueprint was in there—or, more accurately, the blueprint Kilo had been born from—and four cryomancers were added as well, spread out.

At Kelly’s command, the cryomancers let loose with overlapping fields of Chill, slowing everyone inside the affected area. Because it was layered over and over, instead of capped as it would be if this were a game, the effect just got worse and worse.

Then the crossbowmen—or crossbowkobolds—stood and opened fire.

The magical shields over Aaron and his people had turned opaque as more and more hits landed. He’d apparently been heard laughing and jeering that he’d kill us all when he’d seen that. Then, as the bolts continued to fly, with the cryomancers letting loose again and again with Frostbite now as well, the shields had weakened.

He’d started babbling at that point, ordering them to stop. To go away, and then ordering his skulls to kill

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