Dragon Web Online: Inception: A LitRPG Adventure Series (Electric Shadows Book 1) by S R Witt

Author:S R Witt
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Pitchfork Publishing
Published: 2016-09-04T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

They got me two minutes after Karl logged out. I was walking down a narrow side street when I realized something was wrong. The snow stopped falling and the clouds gathered in tight to shut out the starlight.

The shadows swirled through the alley. They separated from the walls and rose up from the ground to surround me. There were five of them, standing at the points of a star with me in their center. They were clad head to toe in shades of deepest black, their darkness punctuated by the gleaming slivers of steel clutched in their hands.

“You lost?” The one in front of me asked. He was a little taller than me, and a lot thinner. Even wrapped in layers of black cloth, he looked skinny and his arms and legs seemed too long for his body. My gaze darted from his eyes to his hand and back again. He rolled the narrow dagger around his knuckles and it danced in and out of his grip like a living creature.

“No. I was just heading over to—“

Someone shoved me from behind. I stumbled toward the black-cloaked figure ahead of me and he pivoted on one heel to let me pass.

A boot caught me in the ass and sent me sprawling. Dirty snow flooded my mouth and my hands skidded over the ice. The cobbles tore at my pants and cold wind snapped at my exposed knees.

My hand shot to the dagger at my hip, and I managed to draw it. I wasn’t going down without a fight.

“Oh,” the shadow said, “you are lost.”

A boot crunched down on my wrist and the dagger slipped from my gasp. A weight landed on my back and gloved hands pulled my wrists together behind me. A black sack flopped over my head and emptied the light out of my world. The thin cord wound around my wrists until they were bound together so tight my fingers began to tingle.

“This isn't—” funny, I tried to say.

My unseen attackers jerked me up on my feet and held me there.

“It is, though. It is kind of funny.” The speaker was close. I could feel his breath on my face through the bag over my head.

I tried to say something, to protest, and someone shut me up with a short, sharp jab to the solar plexus.

My lungs emptied in a strangled whoof and violet sparks danced in the darkness.

“You are lost,” he whispered in my ear. “Just like all of us.”

Then the lights went out for real.

The virtual world disappeared.

The CIN popped loose from my neck and sensation flooded my body in a wave of pins and needles like the first rush of blood back into a sleeping leg.

The carbonite aerogel mattress supported me in its cloud-like mass, applying no pressure to any specific part of my body while still supporting every part of my body. It was nice, and when I’d first laid down on it, I thought I could stay there forever. Now, though, it was as if I was aware of every niggling pain and discomfort everywhere in my body all at once.

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