Apocalypse Summoner 2: A LitRPG Adventure by DB King

Author:DB King [King, DB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2024-07-17T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

“You are here,” the Administrator said, still with that bland half-smile fixed on his face, “because each of those who were deemed to be the natural leaders of your respective groups were drawn here.”

“Yeah… but… wait, how did you know that?” Willa asked.

“Because they planned it,” I said in an awed voice.

If anything they had said so far had sounded like a bunch of boasting, then this revelation quickly dissuaded me of that notion.

They really mean what they say. They really do mean that this whole setup is just some elaborate spectacle. Holy crap, I wonder if some fat douchebag on some other world is sitting on his couch and having a beer and watching me have this goddamn epiphany…

“Planned it?” Alfie Coates asked.

I turned and saw the young man leaning on his twin brother’s shoulder.

“They planned it. They really did plan all of this. Everything that brought me—and you guys—here. To this spot. At this time,” I said.

I looked at the Administrator sitting in his chair still, cool as a penguin’s ballbag. There was nothing outwardly bumptious or vaunting about the son of a bitch, but something about his complete and serene lack of care to our reactions—or anything about us in general—was galling. He looked like everything was playing out precisely as he and his buddies had intended.

I slapped him around the back of the head with my left hand. It wasn’t a hard blow. Just enough to jar his head forward.

The Administrator looked up at me, his eyebrows raised ever so slightly.

“Why?” he asked, still in the androgynous voice that was becoming more and more annoying the more he spoke.

“Didn’t see that coming, did you?” I said in response.

The Administrator smoothed his hair down. He didn’t look annoyed or angry. If anything, he looked vexed.

He looked at his fellow Administrators and then back at me.

“No,” he said. “We did not.”

“So,” I said, “you drew us here.”

“Yes,” the Administrator said, settling back into his old manner of talking, looking pleased I’d cottoned onto this concept so quickly. “As I said, each one of you leaders was brought here, drawn by a specific desire unique to each of you.”

The Administrator’s gaze flickered sideways to stare unblinking at Ivan.

“Challenger the Red, for instance, was brought here by the pull of nothing less than redemption,” the System-based being continued. “A powerful motivator, from the study we have been able to make on the subject. Challenger Peck, who oh so recently headed the group you expunged in the forest, was easier to entice. All it took to move her heart and mind was gold—the lure of loot, the lure of treasure. Avarice was her downfall, as it has been for so many of your race.”

The Administrator looked quizzically around at the gathered dozen.

“It is a curious, curious thing that we have noticed about your species,” he said. “Gold in itself is utterly worthless, and yet you humans will happily kill one another by the millions to attain more of it, or control over it.

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