Gods and Monsters: An Apocalypse LitRPG (Ruthless Book 2) by D. J. Rintoul

Author:D. J. Rintoul [Rintoul, D. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Podium Publishing
Published: 2024-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

A knock startled Mina and broke her concentration.

Probably for the best that something happened to stop me, she thought. Looking down at herself, she saw that she was covered in sweat. She had practiced for hours this time. She hadn’t looked at a clock, but it had been mid-afternoon when she had started applying her water magic. And now the sky outside was completely black.

She checked her System alerts while she walked to the door.

Wow! I leveled up twice! And at some point, Basic Elemental Magic: Water had become simply Elemental Magic: Water.

It seemed that the post-System world was one that would reward Mina’s unyielding focus.

“Hello, Detective,” Mina said. “Any good news?”

She wasn’t optimistic. DaSilva looked harried and exhausted.

“We have a new crime epidemic on our hands,” he said. “May I come in?”

Wordlessly, she let DaSilva into the room. Yulia took out her headphones and greeted the detective. Then he dropped the bombshell.

“Someone has been stealing food from people who won the last challenge. At first, I thought it was just a handful of people who got robbed, but there have been more reports since then. Around a half-dozen teams have been relieved of their rations. I haven’t figured out how they’re doing it, or where they’re keeping the food. But I think this could end up being a bigger problem than a killer who murders a few people every other night. If people start to go hungry—” His voice faltered.

“They’ll cease to be as civilized as we’ve experienced,” Mina finished.

“That’s a nice way of putting it, yes,” DaSilva agreed.

“So, we need to share our food?” Yulia put in, arms crossed.

Mina smiled at her and chuckled. DaSilva nodded and gave a weary smile of his own.

“It’s either share food and carefully ration, or we have to go out and try to hunt some of those beasts the System has mentioned might live around here,” DaSilva agreed. “I don’t really know how much I like the hunting option. We don’t know how dangerous the creatures that live around here are, and I think it’s getting colder outside. Bad weather to be out in the woods, especially if the hunting party has to leave sight range of the settlement. Which I think would be necessary. Of course, if the theft continues, we’ll have no choice but to go out and look for food.”

“On that subject, I should mention a Skill I unlocked while the team was in the last challenge,” Mina said a little reluctantly.

“It’s not a theft Skill, is it?” DaSilva asked sarcastically.

“Ha! No such luck. You’ll have to find your thief elsewhere. But I might be able to help with that.” She explained the Investigate Skill that had evolved from her Identify.

“So you can get a person’s full Status information just by looking at them?” DaSilva asked.

“It seems that way,” Mina agreed. “I haven’t used it a lot, but it worked on plants.”

“We can Identify plants?” DaSilva asked. “Never mind, not important. Why didn’t you mention this earlier?”

“I was planning on doing a little Investigating for you, but I also didn’t want to go out using the Skill today.

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