Beastborne: Exiled Lands: An Epic Portal Fantasy LitRPG Saga (Beastborne Chronicles, Book 2) by James T. Callum

Author:James T. Callum [Callum, James T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-23T22:00:00+00:00

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At first, it was quite novel making a brick of literal bone. One doesn’t normally expect to be able to make something so mundane out of such an odd material. And yet, there Hal was, making his 30th brick.

Noth, elbow on the nearby table with her cheek propped up on her hand, was watching him with the same sense of awe and interest as ever before. If Mira was here, he would have pulled her into the task as well.

Even still, no small number of dwarves were trying to get a peek at what he was doing while they went about with their tasks. Everybody - literally everybody except those assigned elsewhere - was tasked with building the massive Earthen Bulwarks.

The walls were the only way they were going to survive. They were lucky enough to have a home with plenty of room and tall, sheer cliffs all around them that kept them safe. But that 750 feet of an entrance was key to their survival.

If their enemies came inside, it would be a nightmare to fight them. They had to hold them at the gap. It was the only place their inferior numbers could work in their favor.

Hal didn’t know how many the enemy numbered, but he imagined if they were expected to survive for an entire night it wasn’t a small number. Even a hundred monsters would dramatically outnumber those that could fight with any skill.

Worse, if any got into the valley proper they might not be known about for weeks or months. There were areas that he doubted even the skilled Rangers could map and scout in under a month with any accuracy.

“Hal,” Noth said. “You’re doing it again.”

The Beastborne took a steadying breath in through his nose and out through his mouth. “Thanks, Noth.”

He had instructed her to let him know whenever he started to wander. With so much riding on so few shoulders, the stress and worry often weighed heavily on his mind. He was responsible for all of these people.

If they failed, it was because he failed them.

But ruminating and worrying over it would only make that which he feared come true. It was a distraction he could ill afford.

Luckily, the concern was painted so clearly on his face that Noth could easily notice and interrupt his spiraling thoughts.

Unlike the bone weaponry, now that he could create objects out of bone freeform, Hal didn’t need to pull the initial “blank” of bone out of his skin.

Instead, he concentrated his mana and let it flow out of his palms. As his mana filtered out, it formed into the object he desired, so long as he already copied it. The first time he did it, required an actual object.

And not just any object either. He required one of the exact size and dimensions that he wanted to create.

In this way, he could effectively copy just about anything.

The first brick, which was really a massive stone block at least three feet wide and weighed nearly 300 pounds, was slowly changed to bone as he fed his mana into it.

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