Dawnfall: A LitRPG Adventure (My Best Friend is an Eldritch Horror Book 5) by Actus

Author:Actus [Actus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2023-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Nineteen

Damien pushed through the rubble of the house. There was no way it was truly that empty—he was confident that It Who Stills the Seas had been hiding something there, and Quinlan was somehow involved.

A few minutes later, he found what he was looking for. A trapdoor had been buried under the remains of a wall. Damien pulled the debris free with telekinesis and studied the door for any traps.

When he found no runes on it, Damien carefully lifted the door, once again using telekinesis to avoid anything that might be waiting for an unwary intruder. The door swung open, thudding to the ground harmlessly.

Slowly, Damien crept over to the edge of the square hole and peered inside. It was pitch-black.

Henry? Do you have anything that makes more light than pure destructive energy? I’d rather see what we’re getting into.

Henry took over for an instant, casting a purple sphere down into the room below their feet. It pulsated, illuminating the small area with magenta light.

“That’ll last for a few minutes,” Henry said, returning Damien’s body to him.

Thanks.

Damien poked his head inside the room, ready to Warp Step at the first sign of trouble. However, no traps or defenses greeted him. Instead, he found himself staring at a prison cell. Quinlan sat behind roughly hewn stone pillars that acted as makeshift bars. Her chest rose and fell with slow breaths, and her eyes were closed.

Carefully, Damien dropped through the trapdoor. “Quinlan?”

She didn’t respond. He supposed that made sense, considering the amount of noise he and Seas had been making aboveground. There weren’t any obvious wounds on Quinlan, but she looked thinner than when Damien had last seen her.

Upon closer inspection, Damien realized her cell had runes drawn all over it in chalk. The back wall was completely covered, and much of the floor and even the bars had been worked on.

Several books rested around her, and a case of chalk was spilled at her feet. Damien blinked in confusion. She didn’t look like a prisoner. She looked like a student who had been cramming for a test.

Damien studied the runes in the cage for a moment, making sure nothing was obviously a trap. Most of them weren’t even connected in circles, which meant Quinlan was just practicing them, and they were inert.

Warp Stepping into the cell, Damien appeared beside Quinlan and nudged her shoulder. She groaned, her eyes fluttering for a moment, but didn’t wake.

“Quinlan!”

“Hu— What?” she sputtered, her eyes snapping open. They darted around the room before focusing on Damien. “Whu?”

“What are you doing?” Damien asked, baffled. “Do you know where we are?”

“Old guy’s house,” Quinlan replied, wiping her eyes groggily. “But why are you here? You’re going to ruin my test!”

“Test?” Damien asked. “What test?”

“The old guy was teaching me runework,” Quinlan replied. “He said he knew an artifact that could save— Ah, help me. But unless I figure out the proper runes to use it, he won’t take me there.”

“You’re locked in a cell. Are you telling me that was voluntary?”

“He’s given me food and water.

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