Demon Tamer: A LitRPG Progression Fantasy Adventure Series (Aerda Online Book 2) by Jack Bryce

Author:Jack Bryce [Bryce, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2021-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

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For a moment, I feared Marcatus would use his teleportation spell and just vanish. By the trembling of his hands, I could tell he considered it. In the end, to his credit, he remained and rose to his feet. He was pale, but there was resolve in his set jaw.

Quest updated: Freeing Roswitha. New bonus objective: Do not let Marcatus die or suffer grievous wounds.

Leresah shook her head, then let her other blade snap out of her bracer and looked at me. “How now, Oram Ludwickson?”

I took a small piece of bark from my spell component pouch and spoke a swift incantation to cast my Barkskin spell. “We make for the top floor,” I said. “If we fight them in this cell, we’d be trapped like rats. But above, we can face them and have an avenue of escape.”

“You realize they will probably see us the moment we make a sprint for the stairs?”

“They’ll find us either way,” I said. “Best let them find us on ground of our choosing.”

Leresah nodded. “Very well.”

“You know the way around here,” I said. “Lead us.”

We ran out into the corridor, led on by the pale light of my spell. Even as we broke free of the cell we had occupied, a cry rang out behind us, and we heard at once the footsteps of those giving pursuit. At the end of the corridor a spiral staircase appeared. It led up, and Leresah ran toward it. She moved fast—faster than Marcatus and I—and she made it to the stairway before either of us. She stood there for a breath, glanced over her shoulder.

“Up!” I shouted.

She bolted up the staircase. Marcatus panted behind me, and I chanced a quick glance over my shoulder.

The Barbarian and his stooges were not far behind. The soldiers were heavily armored and slow, but Cannur Wicked-Eye—despite wearing a bronze chest plate with greaves, bracers, and a helmet of the same material—did not seem to be slowed by his armor at all. If anything, he was quicker than Marcatus and I.

“Hurry,” I hissed at Marcatus.

A moment later, I came to the bottom of the stairs. They were narrow, glib from the damp of this decrepit place, and it looked like some stones may well be loose. Still, I ran up two steps at a time, eager to increase the distance between myself and Cannur. The first time my feet landed, I almost slipped, and at the edge of my vision, the result of an Acrobatics Check popped up—a 63. I needed a moment to regain my balance, and then I ran farther up the stairs.

“Get ready!” I called out to Leresah above, even though I could no longer see her due to the bend in the stairway.

Another wordless howl came from the Barbarian behind us as he charged up the steps, and a frightened whimper from Marcatus told me that Cannur was nearly upon him.

Then, I reached the top of the stairs, burst through a doorway, and turned. Leresah was beside the doorway, back to the wall, ready to pounce on whoever came through.

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