Duskbringer: A LitRPG Adventure (My Best Friend is an Eldritch Horror Book 3) by Actus

Author:Actus [Actus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2023-04-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twenty

Far from Blackmist, at the top of a flat-topped, snow-covered mountain, a bandaged man sat on the shattered remains of a large stone. Before him stood another man wearing a black cloak with a long white scarf flapping in the wind behind him.

“It’s been a few Cycles since I last saw you,” Second said, resting his chin in his hand, his tone casual. “Making moves again, Moon?”

“Wouldn’t you like to know?” Moon replied with a chuckle. “I can say the same for you. You’ve brought the Corruption to bear far sooner than you ever have before. Something catch your eye?”

“Probably the same thing that caught yours.” Second picked up a pebble and tossed it from hand to hand. “This Cycle is going to be different, you know. We have suffered long enough at the hands of the Void.”

“You’ll fail.” Moon’s voice was flat and expressionless, just like his namesake. “And even if you were to succeed, your goals would only bring agony to the planes. Trillions would die.”

“Trillions already suffer in the space between worlds,” Second snarled, rising to his feet. “Your stance helps nobody, Moon. Pick a side already, you coward.”

“The Void is no more in the right than you are,” Moon replied. “But this Cycle will be different.”

“The only possible outcome we will accept is complete and total victory,” Second said. Dark green snakes of energy wrapped around his feet, crackling before they disappeared into the air around them. “Your threats will do you nothing. Your only claim to power is evading the Cycle’s restart. Start learning to respect your elders, stupid boy. For all the words you speak, there is no power behind them.”

The air around Moon warped, and his eyes grew cold. “You mistake my lack of action for a lack of strength, Second.”

“More words,” Second sneered. “You’re quite keen to keep me away from that boy. For someone who doesn’t take sides, you’re quite desperate to aid the Void. Perhaps I should pay him a visit and finish what I started.”

Moon cocked his head to the side. Second’s leg shattered. Fragments of bone and blood splattered to the ground, acid sizzling against the snow. His second leg followed suit, and he fell to the ground before the masked man.

Bands of dark magic wrapped around Second’s mouth, gagging him before he could scream. With a sigh, Moon flipped the man over with his boot and knelt so they were eye to eye.

“You will not show yourself at Blackmist. The Corruption will not so much as show its face beside Damien until the Intermurals begin, Second. Do you understand?”

The bands vanished. Second drew in a ragged gasp. His limbs had already reformed. He stood up, the visible parts of his face pale.

“How did—”

Second’s chest caved in. The man’s eyes bulged, and Moon clicked his tongue.

“That was a yes-or-no question, Second. You’re on my ground, and you’ve got no weapon capable of killing me here. I hold all the cards right now. At this point in the Cycle,

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