Arcane Knight Book 6: An Epic LitRPG Fantasy (Order & Chaos) by Timothy McGowen

Author:Timothy McGowen [McGowen, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rising Tower Books
Published: 2024-08-20T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

BEARKIN TRIALS PART 1

Ikept Cam in my view as much as possible, but it was hard, seeing as we were tied up. The injury to Cam’s head bled freely, but I felt life in him still, so I didn’t worry yet. In the moment I thought he might be in true danger, then I would break my bonds and slay the entire hunting party if it meant he would be saved. But it hadn’t come to that, so we allowed ourselves to be taken to the chief. I tried my best not to be angry at people just doing their duty to their tribe.

If not for them leading us here, I might not have found this area set into the side of a cliff. Some dozen caves or so surrounded by additional huts and even some buildings built into the cliffs, were all hidden by the trees and some even looked like trees themselves. It was surprisingly barren as they entered the village, it appeared that only the really young and really grey old were still around the village and all the rest had been in this raiding party of some thirty or forty bearkin.

“I’m sorry for taking your kill,” I tried to say in their language again after I realized that I had indeed stolen their kill. But I couldn’t very well leave a Chaos-infected ogre riding that abomination of scales and fur roaming around. I’m sure I offended their code of honor by taking their kill, but I did what was my duty by oath as a defender of the balance.

The ogre must have been a remainder of the corruption which that damned Chaos Knight who had infiltrated the human lands left behind. She had wrought so much destruction that I wondered if the land would ever truly heal from her influences. I was just glad that the ley lines were no longer in threat and we’d have the full force of the magic that lay beneath in the moment that we faced our greatest threats. By now all of her harm in the ley lines ought to be cleansed.

“Speak not of sorry,” the beastkin said in his own language, but he spoke so fast that it almost sounded like broken beastkin in my head. “Great Chieftain Tharnak Stonepaw will see to your false token and put you both to the claw.”

He looked with a growl at the token around my neck from Grug, but he’d not made a move to remove it, so I felt like it had in fact helped us get to the chieftain without any bloodshed.

The entire hunting party escorted us into the cave and deep into the back where the entrance to another cave sat. In the middle of that room, our captive took Cam and threw him to the ground in front of another bearkin and I stood my ground, refusing to be bowed down when the powerful bearkin attempted to force me to a knee. I turned and bared my

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