Guilds at War: The LitRPG Saga Continues by C.J. Carella

Author:C.J. Carella [Carella, C.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fey Dreams Productions, LLC
Published: 2021-01-17T20:00:00+00:00

Twenty-One

My second sewer trip, Hawk thought as he trudged through the muck-covered walkway. Hopefully it will be my last.

The tunnels were much wider than the ones he’d seen below Orom, with elevated sidewalks to allow workers to enter them without having to trudge through the filth flowing through the canals on its way to the Corax River, which would carry it out into the swamplands to the southeast. Not exactly sanitary, although with magic it wasn’t as big a problem as on Earth, and the swamps were supposedly so disgusting that some raw sewage wouldn’t make much of a difference.

Hawke and his team – Tava, Boris, Grognard, Korgam, Lady Pew-Pew and the Witch Heketa, as well as Rabbit and Digger – were moving through one of the main arteries of the extensive sewer network. They had taken the information the High Priest had given Hawke and mapped out the spots in the city where people had disappeared. The closest one, out in the Lowers, was about a mile from their position in a straight line, and more like double that distance, given all the twists and turns they would have to take while underground.

Hawke’s auras and a couple of spells provided illumination for the party, letting everyone see the arched tunnel that ran some seven feet above the walkway and another two feet over the slow-flowing current in the central channel. The smell was as bad as he’d expected. So far, only Boris Imdoomed had upchucked at the assault on the senses, but everybody looked a little sick.

“Couldn’t be helped,” Hawke said apologetically. “If we’d traveled aboveground to get closer to the disappearance sites, we might have run across one of Kaiser’s sniper teams. They have all of our names and descriptions.”

“Yep. Better to stink than to die,” Grognard said.

“I just hope we can get the stink out of our stuff,” Boris grumbled.

The Ranger wasn’t a bad guy, but he’d grown up in a nice suburb on Earth and his ‘character’ was used to forests where animals mostly buried their scat. Hawke couldn’t blame him for losing his lunch. He also had to be nervous, being just seventh level (tenth level thanks to Hawke’s Party Leader bonus) in a group that averaged nearly twice that. He and Lady Pew-Pew were the weakest links in the group. The good thing was that, as ranged damage dealers, they could stay out of harm’s way and add their firepower to the team. Hawke, Korgam and Grognard were the designated tanks, whose job was to keep the enemy away from the rear team. Tava was acting as a ranged combatant and off-tank. She and her Dire Bear would act as a reserve and protect the Rangers and their new Witch ally if something unexpected happened.

The group was small, but Hawke didn’t want to risk the other Eternals. He could have gotten another half dozen Sterns to join in, but most of their high-level Adventurers were away from the city, dealing with other troubles. A

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