Beneath the Triple Moons: a LitRPG Portal Adventure: Doorverse 2 (The Doorverse Chronicles) by Kyle Johnson

Author:Kyle Johnson [Johnson, Kyle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-15T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Renica sat up swiftly, cracking her head on the low ceiling above the bed and cursing softly. “What’s going on?” she asked, blinking sleepily.

“I don’t know,” I replied, extricating myself from being entwined with her. “Screaming can’t be good, though.” Screams rang sporadically in the building, high and panicky shrieks of terror. Even as I listened, one of the screams cut off in a choking cry. I echoed Renica’s profanity and slipped out of the bed, dropping lightly to the floor.

“Where are you going?” she asked, her voice concerned as she crawled out behind me.

“To check on Viora.” I couldn’t see much in the darkened room, and I wasn’t 100% sure how to relight the oil lamp without a lighter. I knew how to make fire, of course, but I didn’t have anything to make it with. I began feeling around the room, searching for my knife and hatchet.

“Here, this should help,” Sara said, and suddenly, an image of the room lit up in my vision in perfect detail. “It might not be exact, but it’s the last you saw of it before you turned out the light earlier.”

“Thanks,” I replied, even as I recalled that I could have just cast my light spell, as well. Of course, that also might have brought unwanted attention, so Sara’s method might just have been the better one. I grabbed my belt with my simple knife attached to it and my hatchet. I hesitated, considering pulling the Imperial dagger from my pack, but I left it where it was. If anyone recognized it in the Cathedral, we would likely be in a lot more trouble than whatever was out there.

Vikarik stood at the door, growling at it menacingly, and behind me, I heard the scrape of metal as Renica fumbled with something. A moment later, a spark leapt into the glass-enclosed lamp, and the wick lit with a warm, cheery glow that lasted for all of a second or so before guttering into a dim, scarlet haze that painted the room in crimson. Renica hissed in dismay as she stared at the blood-red flame.

“Darklings,” she said in a horrified voice. “But–how? We’re in the Cathedral!”

“How can wait,” I answered, strapping on my weapons. “Get your crossbow. We need to get to the Sorvaraji ASAP. There’s zero chance that this just happened on the day we arrived in the city.” I waited while she rummaged through her pack, producing a heavy, leather collar that she strapped around Vikarik’s neck before hefting her crossbow and strapping a box of bolts to her right thigh. I looked at the collar curiously, but I assumed it was armor of some kind and let it go. “Ready?”

“Yes, but–do you remember how to get to her room?”

“Yep.” Technically, of course, I didn’t, but Sara did, and she could lead me unerringly back the way we came. I reached out and touched the doorknob, wincing when the ice-cold metal bit my flesh. “This thing is freezing!”

“That’s the sign of the darklings,” Renica half-whispered.

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