Chains: A LitRPG Adventure (Unbound Book 11) by Nicoli Gonnella

Author:Nicoli Gonnella [Gonnella, Nicoli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mountaindale Press
Published: 2025-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT

"Calm down, Beef."

Hollow's voice was as soft and soothing as ever, but Beef didn’t care. He paced nervously across the wild meadow set into his manor, stepping heavily past the statues of his Skills at the edge of the stepped Well. The feature dominated the center of his core space, progressing downward in tiers toward his glowing core. Each chitin statue was bigger than ever before. They gleamed with a blackened green light from every crevice and carving upon their bodies, and even the moss that clung to their bases was lush and vibrant. Surrounded by his visualized success, Beef had hoped he would feel some form of confidence return, yet he couldn't shake his nerves.

He walked closer to the railing. The Well of Skills sat atop of an enormous, sprawling mansion, clinging to the back of the Golden-Bronze Beetle. The landscape swayed with each scuttle of the Beetle’s legs, though not as much as one might expect. There was a sure-footed swiftness that had them almost gliding across the fields of golden wheat. In the distance, the horizon curved, as if he were looking at the Earth from far above—except here, the planet was tiny enough that the Beetle completed a full circumnavigation in an hour.

Winds blew, shifting the golden wheat around and tossing about the small, stunted trees that spread out among them. The beetle's legs moved with a delicate efficiency, never tearing up the land or breaking through the trees, not even so much as disturbing the grain as it moved. Beef took it in, trying to let the precision of it comfort him.

"Your plan is solid," Hallow said again.

“But what if…” Beef shot a look across his Skill statues. Beyond the wide mouth of the Well was another section of his sprawling manor, built from yellow brick and bronze. Set into the nearest wall, however, was an off-white door, covered in scratches.

Beef pulled his gaze away, but it was hard. "What if I don't do it right? What if I screw up?"

"That's why we're here," said a voice, and it was like thunder across his little world.

Beef threw up an arm as light burst from a single point in space. A statue of chitin formed from the earth, mimicking the identical shape of a powerfully built man. As fast as it sculpted itself, the statue cracked, chitin turning to flesh, hair, and the black scales of the monster he called his friend.

"Hello, Felix."

"Hi, Hallow,” the man waved at the Graven Aegis standing nearby. He didn’t take his eyes off Beef, though. “I only heard the last part of that, but listen to your friend here, man. We've got your back."

"I know," Beef said, fully turning back toward his friend and the well, "but what if…”

“Did you change your core space?" Felix asked, looking around.

Beef's mouth snapped shut, and he very carefully didn't look at the scratched door. It wasn't new, but had Felix noticed it?

"A little. Yes, a little."

"I see a bunch of sigaldry all over this house.

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