Demonborn's Fjord by Dante Sakurai

Author:Dante Sakurai [Sakurai, Dante]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-22T22:00:00+00:00

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A blizzard had besieged the town and put an end to Tasha’s mining plans. Or anything outdoor for that matter.

Inside another back-room in this limestone and slate keep, three stacks of empty crates were gathering dust. The Humans in this game loved to store crates, and Tasha knew why: these crates all recently were full of grains, dried fruit, and salted meat. The unstoppable torrent of new players were a swarm of locusts.

Ayla motioned to follow back out into the hallway. She relocked the magical door with unique skills granted by her Thief Fate. That’s how she had nicked those four Swordsman Tomes, from a shop’s upstairs closet. She’d made a beeline for the stores upon log-in and somehow had evaded Royal Guard patrols unlike many others who’d been caught. Sneaky woman.

The metallic door locked with grainy chestnut magic running up and down runic symbols. Ayla’s face was blank, unreadable, maybe a touch bored.

Tasha exhaled hot minty air. The air in here was remarkably modulated to a constant twenty-three degrees Celsius. She recognized this exact temperature. She drawled, “I doubt they stored anything good here.” Everything of value was hiding inside storerooms next to the Royal Guard’s office.

Ayla’s eyes were unyielding. “You’d never know. I found this pouch in an attic.” Her magical pouch that doubled as the game’s inventory system.

“Fine. How many items does it hold, by the way?”

“Twelve slots,” Ayla said lightly, leading the way. “And most resources can be stacked to fifty.”

Wow. “You can put fifty blocks of limestone in there? In one slot?”

“I haven’t tried it, but a dude on the forums said stone and metal and wood stacks to ten instead, which isn’t much when you need like hundreds to build a small house.”

“I see.” Tasha didn’t really care per-say, but if sleeping was sometimes unavoidable sleep in this game, then she was going to sleep inside a house built of stone and not flammable wood. You’d never know if some deranged guy was moments away from going on a burning spree.

Ayla stopped at the next door, intoned a word in the magic language, and shot a globule of gray mana at engraved, glittering runes. Her magic fizzled. It took three more attempts before her magic reacted with a throbbing glow. The door swung open without a creak.

Tasha held her breath in anticipation for a thousand-credit treasure. Multiple treasures.

But only more crates sat stacked within.

“Ayla. I think other players probably might’ve already went through here. We’re wasting time.”

“What else is there to do? Have you seen the Blizzard outside?” Ayla locked the door and continued toward the next.

The rubber soles of Tasha’s boots squeaked on the floor as she said, “No, I was thinking let’s visit one of the other continents. Let’s go.” Go to the portal building.

“Oh, you got other friends around the world?”

Of course, that was the hitch. “Well, no. I was thinking to ask on the forums.”

“Haha. All you’ll get are horny guys.”

That was true—just like in real life. “Why did they

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