Bone Lord 3 by Dante King

Author:Dante King [King, Dante]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

I inspected my army’s magic-less weapons, considering how I might have the most fun battling this giant spider the old-fashioned way. First, I snatched a long spear from one of my skeleton cavalrymen. For heavy duty, I chose a battle-axe from one of my zombie barbarians, hooking it into the scabbard on my back that usually held my kusarigama. An unenchanted tower shield from one of my zombie Crusaders should suffice for defensive purposes. I took a moment to appreciate that these ex-clerical guards no longer looked or smelled quite as rotten as they once had, now that my powers had increased and I was able to maintain undead humans in the same kind of stasis as I was my undead beasts.

I figured I could use my plate armor as long as I didn’t activate its Cold Magic and thereby break the rules of this match. The plate armor would hold a lot better than my light assassin’s armor.

“Just like boar hunting,” I muttered as I strode out to meet the giant war spider in the dusty expanse before the vast gates of Aith. “If the boar was about 50 times bigger, had eight legs, a hundred eyes, and venomous fangs the size of greatswords.”

Within its monstrous head, the spider’s multiple eyes gleamed like embedded jewels in the rich dusk light. Venom oozed and dripped from its curved fangs. Considering how potent the venom in many regular-sized spiders’ fangs was, I had no desire to find out just how brutal the effects of this behemoth’s poison on a human body would be.

Hopefully, the shield and my plate armor would prevent that.

I remembered what Friya had told me about these spiders—that they were linked to the mind and spirit of an Arachne, similar to how my undead troops were linked to me. This was no dumb beast I was about to fight. I needed to remember there was a human-like mind controlling this thing.

I kept this fact in the forefront of my mind as the spider and I started circling each other, about 20 yards between us. I felt a sudden empathy for ants and how they must feel when staring up at humans.

Of course, there was no real comparison there. For me, taking out the spider would have been no problem had I been able to use my powers. Fighting it the way any other non-Fated mortal would was an entirely different matter. The last time I’d fought an enemy using only my human reflexes and weapons of steel had been prior to becoming a necromancer. Actually, that wasn’t correct. It was also prior to finding Grave Oath, when I’d been a novice assassin.

Thankfully, my reflexes and skills hadn’t faded. In fact, by becoming a god, I had enhanced them. I could sense that the spider—and whoever was controlling it—perceived that I was a seasoned fighter. It was an easy conclusion to make since my stance and movements were those of an expert warrior.

For a few more moments, the

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