Dan the Adventurer: A Gamelit Harem Fantasy Adventure by Hondo Jinx

Author:Hondo Jinx [Jinx, Hondo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Harem, GameLit
Amazon: B07FYRYKTF
Publisher: www.hondojinx.com
Published: 2018-08-26T05:00:00+00:00

24

Grinding Away

“I know you are afraid,” Dan told the hundred or so red elves assembled in the courtyard before him. “I want you to channel that fear into force when the slavers come screaming over these walls.”

The red elves shuddered, clutching their new spears, which they had fashioned from meadow saplings.

Clearing Ula’s kill zone wasn’t the most important task, but Holly had suggested doing that first. Removing skinny trees and brush was going quickly. The work gave the elves a sense of purpose and accomplishment, built momentum, and gave Dan an opportunity to praise them.

Otherwise, the elves had provided few opportunities for praise. They showed up late to training, talked in the ranks, and spent more time shooting him sultry looks than actually paying attention to his lessons.

Mornings were reserved for military training. Afternoons were given to grunt work. Only they weren’t getting much accomplished in the afternoons, because the red elves kept collapsing from fatigue.

He had begun to fear that they wouldn’t be ready in time. The elves of Fire Ridge were simply too weak, unfocused, and lazy to work hard, no matter how many times Dan explained the stakes and urgency.

He stared at them now. A few seconds ago, they’d all been shuddering at the thought of slavers coming over the wall. Now, half of them were giving him bedroom eyes and the other half were staring off into space, hip-bumping each other, or dragging the butts of their spears along the paver stones, making an annoying grating sound.

Frustrated, Dan said, “You do want to survive, right?”

The elves nodded.

“And you do believe that the slavers actually are coming, right?”

More nodding. Wide eyes stared at him, suddenly frightened all over again.

“Good,” he said. “But if you want to survive the attack, you have to—”

“Butterfly!” one of the red elves chimed, and the whole group forgot what Dan had been saying and chased after the fluttering speck of blue, tittering like children.

“They’re doomed,” he told Holly, who shrugged.

“Maybe you should take a look at what’s happening over there,” she said, pointing toward the alley that connected this courtyard to the next.

He left the giggling red elves and followed Holly toward the adjacent courtyard. Ula’s deep voice ricocheted off the narrow walls of the alley.

Entering the courtyard, Dan smiled.

Ula was shouting at her red elves, a hundred or so in all.

Unlike his elves, Ula’s charges stood up straight. Their eyes were frightened.

Each of the elves held a bow and wore a quiver of arrows. Holly’s archery reconstruction team, comprised mostly of the elderly, had been working day and night.

Ula shouted, marching back and forth with a sapling branch swagger stick tucked under her arm.

The red elves flinched.

Holly grinned.

“What’s she saying to them?” Dan asked.

“She’s telling them that they’re pitiful and that they’re all going to die. She’s been giving them names like Kill, Rape, and Eat because she says that’s all that they’re good for. See that one over there?” she said, pointing to a plump elf near the center. “Ula named her Maim for Laughs.

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