Death Curse: The Final Battle (The Realm of False Gods Book 11) by Steve Higgs

Author:Steve Higgs [Higgs, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

The landing was a hard one. Otto tasted blood, his jaw having connected with the street when he landed. He rolled onto his side and into a sitting position.

Ayla had a cut to her head just above and to the left of her left eye. Blood ran freely from it showing it must be deep. She looked at him, their eyes meeting.

Neither said it, but they were both asking themselves the same question: who else got out?

Otto’s quick thinking saved them both. As the building shook, he opened a portal and reached out his hand to Ayla. They fell through it as the floor beneath their feet tumbled away. Another second and they would have been buried in the ruined structure.

Rather than focus on who might have been lost in the latest terrible attack, Ayla asked, “Will they go to one of the rendezvous points?”

Otto hoped so. Expecting people to get separated in the mayhem that would be the fight for planet Earth, Otto instilled in everyone the need to seek a safe haven in the event they found themselves alone.

There were three rendezvous points. One at the base of Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, one in Cairo underneath the chin of the Sphinx, and one outside an ice cream parlour at a lake near Bremen. They were random locations that could realistically be expected to not be a demon hotspot.

With no time to think about where he was going, Otto had chosen none of those locations. Instead his portal took them from the SIA headquarters to a street corner two blocks to the west.

Still nursing his jaw and questioning if he had a loose tooth, Otto was gathering his thoughts when his phone began to ring.

Hoping it would be Katja or one of the other supernaturals calling, he was most surprised to see a different name displayed on the screen.

“Zac?” he murmured the name. Thumbing the green button to answer the call, he pressed the phone to his ear.

“Wizard? Is that you?”

That he was hearing the voice of Zachary Barnabus did not need to be questioned. Why he chose to call, however, did.

“Zachary? I’m kind of in the middle of something right now. Is this important?”

“I’m in Budapest, Otto. The demons levelled half the city and in their wake a plague of shilt landed. They are killing the people even as they try to clamber out of the wreckage.” The pain in the shifter’s voice cut right through Otto. “I’m fighting them with a pack of weres, but there are just too many. I need your help, old buddy. Can you do me a solid?”

That the werewolf was asking for help was a first. That alone made Otto want to go to him. There was more though. Zac had the shield that went with Anastasia’s suit of armour. If she really was the one who could save the humans from genocide and enslavement, then giving her the shield was the only sensible course to take – anything that would help her to win.

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