Dreamer's Throne: A Fantasy LitRPG Adventure by Seth Ring

Author:Seth Ring [Ring, Seth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2023-09-18T16:00:00+00:00

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Praying that the monster’s tongues couldn’t taste his sweat in the air, Garrett stood frozen, his hand still outstretched for the door. With a hunched posture, the monster took a shuffling step forward, its abnormally long arms holding onto the corners of the buildings on either side of the alleyway. Swallowing the lump that had risen in his throat, Garrett activated Observe the Dream, using it to get a better look at the monster he’d seen in the reflection. With no head to hold its eyes, the monster instead turned its whole chest this way and that, allowing the dozens of crimson eyes that hid in the folds of its bony ribs to peer into the fog.

Struck by a sense of crisis as the monster started to turn his direction, Garrett opened the door that led into the soap factory’s office and slipped inside, shutting the door behind him. Scrambling toward the massive desk, he crawled underneath it, his breath coming in gasps. The movement of the door attracted the large nightmare’s attention, and Garrett watched in growing horror as it shuffled toward the door he’d just darted through. Tucked under the desk, Garrett did his best to control his breathing, keeping himself as small as possible.

The wait was agonizing as the nightmare made its way toward the door, its tentacles waving this way and that as it tried to find the source of the movement that had first attracted its attention. Arriving outside the door, it crouched down, sliding its waving stalks under the door. Crimson eyes opened on the ends of the tentacles, peering into the shadows. Keeping himself as still as possible, Garrett wracked his brain for a plan if the monster came into the room. A bead of sweat ran down his forehead, dripping into his eye, but he didn’t wipe it, just in case the nightmare could detect his movement.

The waving tentacles that had entered the room began to stretch, extending further and further into the room until they hovered over the desk. The mouth on the end of the worm-like appendage continued to taste the air while the eyes that had opened around it darted this way and that, determined to pry out the secrets the room held. Turning to the side, the crimson eyes swept the room and then started to look down.

Clenching his fist, Garrett felt his nerves being stretched to their limit and was about to lash out when the tentacle abruptly retreated, flowing back out of the room. Stunned, Garrett chased after it with Observe the Dream, watching as the nightmare stood up straight, its eyes returning to its chest. A crunching sound shook the air of the Dream and set the thick fog roiling. Crouching slightly in a display of fear, the nightmare suddenly darted for the alleyway it had first appeared from, moving incredibly fast.

Yet before it had managed to get more than a few feet away, a massive, hulking creature that reminded Garrett of a minotaur charged through the fog, slamming into the skeletal nightmare.

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