Fate Points: A Unique LITrpg: Book 3: Defending Fortifications by Allan Greenwood & Alex Kozlowski

Author:Allan Greenwood & Alex Kozlowski [Greenwood, Allan & Kozlowski, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-03-20T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26

Deliberate Betrayal

AT SOME POINT, Joline and Michael joined him. They looked happy. Their strange host seemed to delight in chatting with all the surrounding humans. Tom saw him having animated discussions with nearly everyone in the human camp. The otter was a social animal. Each session, Tom observed, was like his own: Mus only spent five minutes with each person, but it had an impact. Some left filled with hope, and others near tears (those, presumably, the ones with whom Mus had shared an unwelcome truth). Yet despite the range of emotions, Tom was sure no permanent harm was being done. People needed the bandaids ripped off. Existentia may have been immeasurably different from the tutorial, but it was just as brutal.

Tom and Everlyn collapsed next to each other, back against the wall that looked down at the party. The bard was still strumming his harp, but the intense, fast pace of dance music had faded into something more reflective and gentle after the drummer had disappeared with a female companion earlier in the night. Above their heads, Mus’s huge steed was flapping lazily through the air – it had become a regular occurrence. It would usually leap in the air and do a five-minute circuit before returning to the ground. That cycle took place every twenty minutes, apart from that time when it had caught one of the giant lizards and spent thirty minutes eating about half of it in clear view of everyone with night vision.

“Bed.” Everlyn suggested.

Tom said nothing. Now the latest set of gases had worn off, he felt a sense of disquiet.

“What’s bothering you?”

Tom shook his head. “I’m not sure. I feel like I’ve missed something important tonight.”

“No one died.”

“I know. I’m going through my list to see if we’re missing anyone.”

“Mus said he is going to protect us.”

“Can the griffin really stop the killer?”

Everlyn shrugged. “I think so. I can’t even tell what level it is, but it’s definitely above rank sixty.” She shook her head and bopped his nose in mock admonishment. “Enough sad talk. Did you enjoy the night? I did; I like the gases, and Mus was funny. I reckon he asked everyone if they would join him.”

“Yeah,” Tom agreed. “You weren’t there for the negotiations, but him sourcing some volunteers is going to be enormous for his species. He probably couldn’t help himself because he was so excited.”

“Will he get any?”

Tom laughed. “Yeah, five of the ten people Joline asked agreed. Which will get us a fortune, at least in value. I don’t know what he’s squirreled away in his trade goods.”

Everlyn chuckled. “Given the amount of party material, I imagine it’s a lot. Or, maybe,” she poked her tongue out at him. “Maybe it’s just his priorities, and all we’re going to end up with are his party supplies.”

“You take that back,” Tom demanded, nudging her. “Our luminary, august personage of an otter will have sensible adventuring stock to transform our lives.”

“Transform? He’s offering that much?”

“Yeah. He agreed to give a fortune.

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