Duskbound 2: A LitRPG Adventure by D.E. Sherman & EmergencyComplaints

Author:D.E. Sherman & EmergencyComplaints [Sherman, D.E. & EmergencyComplaints]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Timeless Wind Publishing
Published: 2025-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

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In hindsight, Velik shouldn’t have been surprised at how easy it was to get back into the city unnoticed. He’d imagined some clandestine plot that had infiltrated all levels of society with enemies and spies lurking around every corner. The corruption, if it even existed at all, wasn’t that widespread. In the best case, Gorlath was an isolated incident and everything they were doing was pointless.

They wore their hoods up and kept their heads bowed. Giller put a small bag of coins in the hands of the gate guard, gestured to the rest of their group, and all six of them rode their horses right into the city. Nobody stopped them. Nobody even looked in their direction.

“I was really overthinking how complicated that was going to be,” he admitted to Jensen a few streets later as he dismounted from the horse. Now that they were past the gate, he had absolutely no desire to ride that thing.

Jensen tied a lead to Velik’s former mount and looped it around his saddle horn, then got moving again. The horse, well trained and with a docile personality, just plodded along, unconcerned with the status of its rider. “It was never in question that the gate guards would let us through,” he explained. “Just whether we could get in without them logging it. And since there were no officers around to oversee them, they were happy to take the bribe.”

They’d deliberately timed their entrance into the city to take place in the evening just as the sun was going down, when Sildra’s [Lunar Judgment] would have its full range of detection. She rode next to Torwin and in front of Aria, who swayed in her saddle as she focused on one of her skills. Jensen was next to her just in case he had to help keep her upright, and Velik, now on foot, brought up the rear.

Giller led them on a roundabout course that eventually got to Gold Town from the west end. She stopped in front of a mansion a few blocks down, one that had no lights in the windows and only a single man sitting at the gatehouse.

“Captain Giller,” the guard said, jolting upright when she walked up to him. “You were supposed to be out of the city.”

“I was. And now I’m back. I’ll be heading inside. Tell no one of this, but send a runner with a message for Master Blendstin to let him know I’ll be arriving at the main house shortly to update him on some complications. Use someone discreet.”

“Ma’am,” the guard said. “There aren’t any runners here, though.”

“Then you go do it,” Giller snapped.

“But… the gate, ma’am.”

“I’ll send one of the other guards out to take your post. You go. Now.”

The guard saluted, then started hustling down the street. Velik watched him go until he turned a corner, then looked back at Giller. She was already past the gate, and the rest of their team was filing in single file on their horses. “Stables are to the left,” she told them.

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