Alpha Physics! Book 2 - Delay: A Post Apocalypse Progression Fantasy LITrpg by Alex Kozlowski

Author:Alex Kozlowski [Kozlowski, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Adrian had registered the lack of life when he snuck in, but his focus had been on the lizards, and he had dismissed it as just the subduing effect of the lizard territory being so close. Now he was not sure. The riverbank across from him had not had a single fight since Adrian had got here.

Visually, there was nothing special. Thick vegetation sloped down to the water on both sides, but it was all shorter than his knee. The river had a bubbling section below him where rocks created mini-rapids and faster flowing current. That was the spot he had identified as being fordable. Enough stones broke the surface that he should be able to skip across him. On either side of the rocky segment, there was deep placid water.

His arm hairs joined the hairs rising on the back of his neck. Even looking closely, Adrian saw was no apparent movement. Long minutes passed before he was sure something was wrong. Something should have come to drink by now. The population of monsters was surely falling as time passed since the alpha event, but it should still be elevated. Five times pre-alpha population was the statistic he knew, and for the weeks immediately following it was more like twenty times. This section ought to have had traffic; even alpha animals needed to drink.

Suspicion was not enough to trigger any useful regional knowledge, but he queried anyway. What non-boss monsters could have this effect? Trying to extract this sort of information was like remembering the past while doing complicated Google searches on bizarre specific topics. No life on the banks, deep water, a stretch of rapids.

The results were inconclusive. Riverway fauna included a couple of creatures that could create the environment he was seeing, rare monsters which were dangerous enough to have kept their original names. There was a kraken-like thing whose tentacles could launch out from the river and stab any land animal within fifty meters. After that, Adrian noted a host of flying fish that would leap out of the water and spear prey over a similar distance, acting at first as an arrow, and then using portal magic to get back into the river, dragging whatever they hit with them. The third was a mind control creature that would just make everything come docilely to it. While mind controlled, the prey swim over to where the beast lazily floats before eventually drowning and being consumed. Of the three options, the kraken was the best one for Adrian. With his speed, he could cross the river before it could respond. Then of course, it might be none of the above. It could be a boss monster which was even more scary, something like the Bird that had surpassed the natural limits of its form to become somewhat new and an order of magnitude more deadly than normal.

Adrian settled down to watch, content with the knowledge that eventually a migrating animal would come along. Then, if there was a monster of the deep, it would show itself.

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