Brightblade by Jez Cajiao

Author:Jez Cajiao [Cajiao, Jez]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-06T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

I regained consciousness slowly, my eyelids sticking together with gummy, coagulated blood. I let out a groan and tasted blood in my mouth. Pain ripped its teeth through me, as though elated to still have me to torture. As I tried to sit up, I saw notifications flashing. I brought them up, wincing at my depleted health bar.

Warning! You have sustained serious internal injuries; this basic Ring of Healing is insufficient to repair more serious wounds. Further healing requires focused and repeated applications of magic or a more powerful item.

I dismissed the prompt and examined at the seeping wound in my side. I’d managed to heal myself for one hundred points using both charges of the healing ring, but the damage had been severe enough that I’d still been bleeding out. My health had steadily dropped lower as I bled until it was at…sixteen out of one hundred and fifty. Thank god I’d woken up when I did. Thankfully, my mana was full again, so I hastily forced out my healing spell, spamming it as soon as I could. I had to stop and wait for my mana to refill a bit before I could manage all of it, but I considered that a small price to pay as my head thumped back down on the stone floor. I’d managed to heal all of the wounds, leaving only had a bone deep ache, as well as an impressive new scar on my left side where the spear had caught me.

I scooted back to rest against the near wall as I examined the room. Dozens of bookcases stood against the far wall, with low comfortable looking couches, tables and chairs spread around the middle of the floor. Covering the outer wall in between the bookcases and the occasional window were small holes, and I hoped I knew what they held: the memory crystals, hundreds of them, glowing gently as they pulsed with all the colors of the rainbow.

I clambered to my feet, still weak from the injuries, but I felt my strength slowly returning as I walked around the room. The bookcases were full of books containing both skills and spells, but as I reached to pull one from the wall, a shimmering energy barrier flared to life, stopping my fingers a scant inch from touching them.

I pushed against it, feeling intensifying heat in response to the pressure, until I snatched my hand back with an oath, shaking my hand. I tried the memory crystals next. Finding the same barrier in place over them, I started to swear. My frustration rose as I turned away and started to search the rest of the room. There was no point in building a room like this, one that recognized me and let me through its crystal door, just to refuse me the prize inside. There had to be some way to deactivate the shield, I just knew it!

I started at the door and worked my way around the room clockwise, slowly moving from wall to bookcase to wall.

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