Brenner: The Gospel of Madness (Book 5 of 6) by Georg Bruckmann

Author:Georg Bruckmann [Bruckmann, Georg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodword
Published: 2021-07-01T22:00:00+00:00

Shepard

Something flew up, almost slowly. It turned in the air and then got stuck in the chest of the degenerate, which was used as a shield by Eater. An axe. The victim shouted loudly and long lastingly. Jan behind me was moving. He must have heard it too. I kept looking down from the window into the street. The man was still hanging in the headlock, which Eater held up with iron strength. His legs broke, and for a second, Eater got out of balance. Then he had grasped himself again and held his living shield seemingly effortlessly in place. The axe had not penetrated deeply, it seemed, because while the two had their balance problems, it had fallen onto the wet road. However, I only perceived this fact marginally. What took most of my attention was something else. First there were two. Four, then. Then six and then eight degenerates. They didn’t look familiar. They encircled Eater and the injured drunkard. Some had their spears pointed at them, others were equipped with knives, clubs and other weapons. I saw Eater’s ripped open pig’s eyes rushing back and forth in their caves as he in vain tried to keep an eye on them all at once. The pig’s eyes flashed. His shield had stopped screaming and had regained his composure. Regarding the new situation, the headlock might even have seemed comforting to him. His face was pain distorted, but the wound didn’t seem too bad. Then they came slowly. First three with spears. Five more behind them. Eater’s gaze shot here and there. He was still trying to keep an eye on them all at the same time, but even if he succeeded, he couldn’t prevent him from being surrounded in no time. Behind me Jan stirred again. He moaned and muttered something in his unconsciousness. It sounded like, “No, don’t!” But I didn’t understand it that well, because the scene below me captivated me almost completely. No doubt it were other degenerates who threatened the giant and his drunken victim. I wasn’t one hundred percent sure, but I thought I realized they weren’t Benito’s people. There wasn’t any bone jewelry on them. No barbaric chains of human remains. Yet they seemed no less threatening than the Bone Degs. There was tension on some of the faces. On others, the joyful anticipation of the impending bloodshed. Bloodshed was imminent, no doubt about that. Eater seemed to be aware of this as well. Where first surprise, then fear and disbelief had been written in his face, it was now a mixture of stubbornness, fatalism and anger. He held his human shield closer as the circle of spears pointed at him tightened around him. And not only that. More and more Degs were added to the scenery. In a few seconds, the number of degenerates had risen to about eighteen. The newcomers didn’t bother to direct their weapons at Eater as well, but stayed in the second row with a much more relaxed posture.

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