Book of the Dead: Awakening: A LitRPG Adventure by RinoZ

Author:RinoZ [RinoZ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2023-09-04T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-SEVEN

OLD BONES, NEW TREASURE

Tyron started awake and found the indistinct outline of Aryll standing over him.

“Come on, rodent, you’re on watch.”

He blinked a few times as his thoughts slowly caught up with the situation. Right, he was on watch tonight so the others could rest. He nodded in the dark and the scout patted him on the shoulder before she moved away to find her own bedroll. He shook his head a little as he sat up, trying to clear the fog in his head before he pulled himself out of his blankets and threw his cloak over his shoulders before strapping his sword back onto his waist. It wouldn’t be much use in his hands against an actual monster, but it was better than nothing and gave him a slight sense of security.

With the fire still crackling, he walked to the edge of the light and found a stump he could comfortably park himself on as Aryll nestled down into her roll behind him. The three Slayers had been pushing themselves hard over the past few days, and even with their superhuman endurance they needed rest. If they were tired, Tyron was exhausted. Without his unusually high constitution for a person of his level, he would have likely passed out ages ago and forced the others into pulling back.

This level of fatigue was still something he could deal with, so he sat and wrapped his cloak around himself as he tried to keep watch for anything that might want to kill them. They’d pulled a long way back from the rifts before making camp—in truth they were no longer within the broken lands at all, which gave him some sense of security. Even so, he’d been able to find rift-kin miles away from here, on the other side of Woodsedge, so there were bound to be many crawling through the area. He just had to hope they wouldn’t find him before he could alert the others.

The light of the moon broke through the foliage above in patches, creating a shifting pattern of pale silver on the ground that revealed the bark, leaves, and rotting vegetation of the forest floor in fleeting glimpses. Though he had the Night Owl feat, which helped him stay alert during the night, he had nothing to provide more vision in the dark, which meant the shadows were almost impenetrable to him as he tried to stay alert.

All in all it was an unnerving experience, and his pitiful collection of skills and spells didn’t feel nearly as praiseworthy when he had nothing but himself to rely on.

Everything would be different if he had minions. He’d be able to fight, he’d have extra eyes to keep a lookout, he’d be able to safely, or at least more safely move through these woods to find the resources he needed. He glanced behind him to see that Aryll was ensconced in her bedroll, hopefully already asleep, before he pulled his map out of his cloak.

“Light,” he whispered.

He barely

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