Bloodgate: A Harem Fantasy by Isaac Keyes

Author:Isaac Keyes [Keyes, Isaac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Royal Guard Publishing LLC
Published: 2024-06-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

I had first heard of Bloodgate from a random soldier from the Breaker army that had been besieging Highreach, during my successful infiltration on my way into the city. At the time, I had imagined it as some tiny little hole in the ground. As I heard more and more about it — none of it good — no one ever challenged this idea. In my mind, it remained a tiny, if terrible, settlement.

That was not the case, it turned out.

“What the fuck is that!?” I exclaimed.

“It is… Bloodgate,” Oziin said, her head tilted to the side.

“Are you fucking serious!?” I was practically yelling in her face. “That!? That’s Bloodgate!? It’s fucking enormous!”

“It is… large, yes.”

Most of us had gathered on the balcony again, and everyone was looking at me like I was Cerenis’s biggest moron. “Did no one describe—” Vsara started to say.

“No! No, they did not!”

The city, because it was a full-fledged city at the very least, sat suspended by truly massive chains over a vaguely roiling pit of what had to be cragsblood. The sludge was slowly churning in the huge caldera. Bloodgate was a large disk or bowl hanging over the very center of it. There were columns that reached from the city and down into the ooze, but most of the buildings were on the top of the chained platform.

A bridge went from one end of the caldera to the other, passing through the city on its way. It was held aloft by numerous thick pillars that sunk into the cragsblood. It was an engineering marvel just as much as the city itself. I was instantly confident that the Melodia could actually walk straight down it without issue.

I turned to everyone and tried to get a hold of myself. “Sorry, I just, I mean, shit! I thought we were headed towards some shanty town built on the side of a cliff like Zulinesh was, only there was a toxic pit underneath it. This place… holy shit.”

After everyone was done lightheartedly mocking me after this, we got to work.

By this time, the citizens in Bloodgate would have undoubtedly seen us, so there was no turning back. By Vsara, Oziin, and Leena’s estimation, there would be a small military presence in the city. It was nothing we couldn’t blow apart with the cannons, especially with our ruinsong artillery. Suli and Leena would be manning them this time. Oziin and Tivani would be with me, monitoring the Melodia’s systems.

I put on my armor, as did Leena. We didn’t expect to have to do much fighting until the end, but better to have it on now.

What I actually expected was to sit in the captain's chair, watching in a detached way as the opposition was blown apart with ease. I sang the Melodia into motion, but I think we all were still a little leery as it took its first step out onto the bridge.

It held, though.

I heard a few sighs of relief afterwards that accompanied my own.

There was very little traffic on the bridge.

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