Castle Kingside (Rewrite) by Gennon Asche

Author:Gennon Asche
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action, Magic, Adventure, Multiple Lead Characters, Portal Fantasy / Isekai, Reincarnation, Male Lead, Original, Grimdark, Hiatus, High Fantasy, Mystery, Fantasy, Soft Sci-fi, Ruling Class, Web original, Webfiction
Publisher: www.royalroad.com
Published: 2021-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

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Timber-framed buildings flanked narrow roads of flattened dirt. Illuminated by the scant light of dawn, it was still too early for people to trudge down their frozen surfaces. The only ones keeping them company were the few refugees huddled in alleyways and patrolling militia, who scanned the horizon for oncoming threats. Strapped to their backs were crossbows or mailbox-sized rock hammers.

One weapon for people. The other for heathens.

Neither, however, was this town’s biggest threat.

Dimitry looked down from atop his polka-dotted horse, focusing on a pair of faintly purple legs sticking out from under a thin blanket. Then, he examined a homeless man with pale skin slumbering in an alleyway. Most people were asymptomatic or in the early stages of infection.

The plague hadn’t consumed Amphurt yet.

Unlike Malten, this town’s modest population density prevented bacterial infections from spreading uncontrolled. A beneficial state of affairs that wouldn’t last forever.

Not that it mattered.

Dimitry had a plan in mind to contain the outbreak before it threatened the populace. With his position as court doctor, he would coerce the queen into setting up plague-curing outposts armed with modified preservia blankets throughout the countryside. Facilities that would save countless lives and decrease the number of patients that traveled to his hospital for treatment, freeing up space for other injuries.

Convinced of his initiative’s inevitable success, Dimitry turned his gaze towards the only eye-catching sight in the entire town—a giant cathedral dwarfing every surrounding building. Its height outclassed the one in Malten by a whole floor, just like Saphiria said it did.

But she failed to mention its most absurd feature—the pointed end of a massive jet-black monolith jutting out from the building’s roof.

Contrasting an early morning’s dark sky, light blue sparkles trickled down the alien construct’s sides, thinning before they vanished into the wind. This cache’s volume must have been a dozen, no, a hundred times larger than the one in Estoria.

Was its sole purpose to house an ominous orb?

Dimitry sought to find out.

He reached the cathedral, which dominated the town’s central market square and dismounted his horse. After Saphiria alighted from Dorothy, they passed through the structure’s arched entrance into a spacious inner sanctum. Spacious, except for the base of a massive shrine stood in the middle.

Its pyramidal base rose from the ground and past the second floor. However, unlike the monolith’s sleek appearance, the rest of the building was anything but. Blood coated pillars and marble floors. Broken windows lined the walls with shattered stained glass fragments, each reflecting the shrine’s alien blue light.

What the hell happened here?

Saphiria reached for the sheath strapped to her leg to retrieve a dagger with a sapphire engraved into its hilt. She gave him a nod.

Dimitry took a vol pellet out from his cloak and tapped the back of his hood.

“Yeah?” a sleepy voice asked.

“Do you sense anyone?”

Precious yawned. “I think there are some people upstairs, but their emotions are all over the place. Probably sleeping.”

“Thanks.” Dimitry glanced at Saphiria. “People above, maybe sleeping.”

She nodded. One careful step after

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