Eradicator by Chris Fox

Author:Chris Fox [Fox, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chris Fox Writes LLC
Published: 2020-12-30T22:00:00+00:00

15

Milestones

When my eyes fluttered open, and I observed the chronometer in my HUD’s corner I realized I’d been asleep for nineteen hours. I’d become a new man while sleeping, and all the hurts and exhaustion had fallen away. The armor’s paper doll showed black had faded to red, and red to yellow. Not great shape, but functional.

I leapt from bed and surveyed my surroundings, a small room with no furniture, just a large slumbering Briff with his back against one wall, and an Arena controller in his limp hand. He still wore the gaming console’s holomask so the light wouldn’t keep me up.

A casual stretch from me caused something to pop, and Briff snapped awake with with a snort.

“Jer?” He tore the helmet off his head, and tossed it on the control unit. “So glad to see you’re up. Ghora showed me the footage of your training, and…wow, you had it rough. No wonder you slept so long.”

I willed my helmet to slither off and stifled a yawn as I tasted real air for the first time in what felt like days. “Guess all the magic really took it out of me. So Ghora’s here? I didn’t think she could leave her mountain.”

“Yeah, she came this morning to speak to Atum. They talked for a long time.” Briff rooted around in a pile of empty energy drink cans near his feet until he found one that hadn’t been opened. He cracked the tab and took a pull before continuing. “Ah, that hits the spot. From what I gather, Ghora has to officially recognize you, and that has to be witnessed. Because of your, umm, popularity, she thinks it should be held here. She’s invited Kahotep to attend. I guess he’s a real big shot on this planet. He seems pretty cool from the little I’ve interacted with him. I really like the guy.”

“I guess I should probably find out about this ceremony then.” I ran my fingers through my hair as best I could, then willed the helmet to slither back into place. The HUD lit a moment later, and my reflection showed that my hair was messed up again. Oh, well. “Can you escort me to wherever Ghora is? I want to get this over with as soon as possible, and get back to the Word if I really am done here. They didn’t give me much training. Mostly just tried and failed to kill me.”

“That counts as training, I think. Like making you play a lot of Arena against better players to improve.” Briff nodded as if the training made perfect sense. “It’s working. You’re way better than you ever have been before. You move faster, and with more confidence. Plus you have a bunch of tools and spells you didn’t before. You can just look through floors and kill people. That’s crazy.”

I guess it kind of was when he put it like that. Still I didn’t feel that much stronger. Certainly not strong enough to go toe-to-toe with Necrotis.

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