Age of Victoria by Alston Sleet

Author:Alston Sleet [Sleet, Alston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bowker
Published: 2019-06-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Pulling back from the doorway I huddled down next to my group and thought about what this meant. A rogue boss was a serious problem. The last boss was a warrior, and that is about as straight forward a class as possible. Even then, we had severe issues fighting him and all his minions. If this boss has minions, they would probably be rogues. For all we know, the whole room will be full of rogues hiding invisibly and waiting to attack the moment we step into the room. Even if there are no other rogues in the room, the previous boss had struck hard and had more health than his minions. If the rogue could hit harder than a normal rogue goblin, then a single backstab would be able to kill anyone but me in one hit.

Glancing around at each of my friends, I bit my bottom lip before outlining my thinking.

Emma and Annie were silent, both looking away from me as they considered the coming fight. Of all of us, they had the worst chances. If the rogue even once managed to get behind them, they were looking at a short, sharp end to our adventure. Robert might or might not survive a single hit, he had mentioned he had more constitution and better AC than the girls, but it was by no means certain.

“I think we should go back,” Robert said before Annie cut him off.

“No,” she said with a brave look.

Looking around at each of us she said, “No. We should move forward. I think we can do this. We should use our original circle formation.”

Robert looked away; I could see he wanted to argue but wouldn’t allow himself that kind of petulant behavior. I could understand it though; I wanted out of this dungeon as much as everyone else. But we had to fight smart to get out of here with all of us alive. Annie’s idea had merit though. If the rogue couldn’t get behind anyone, he couldn’t backstab them. Then we would have to worry about any minions, and if they were invisible then staying back to back would protect us even there. It wasn’t foolproof, but it looked like it would work.

Emma’s minion joined our huddle, and she had it speak, “I’ll have my skeleton outside the circle. It might draw in an attacker,” the voice was still creepy even after hearing it multiple times.

Shuffling into our circle position, we moved into the room. Walking like this was just as awkward as I remember it, but it was necessary. Robert faced the door we exited while I confronted the rogue trainer. As we approached the goblin opened his mouth, the sharp jagged teeth bared to the air before he held up his hands. The rogue spread his fingers wide, the index finger and palm lightly gripping two daggers while between each of his fingertips was a small black ball. Pulling his hands back down he took a firmer grip on his blades and raced forward only to fade into invisibility during his charge.

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