He Who Fights with Monsters 12 by Shirtaloon & Travis Deverell

Author:Shirtaloon & Travis Deverell
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2025-05-19T16:00:00+00:00

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A TIME TO SLUMBER

In the end, only one place had the space, resources and accessibility to immediately shelter and house a city’s worth of people on short notice. The brighthearts had once formed a massive queue to file into Jason’s soul realm for shelter, and now the people of Boko did the same. Little explanation was given and little was needed; ‘escape from the sun to a place of shelter and abundance’ was all most people needed to see.

Jason built a city in a desert for them to occupy. Another oasis city, reminiscent of the home they had lost. He’d been unsure about using that design, worried about causing fresh trauma, but ultimately decided that something familiar would be best. Putting them in a completely alien place would only unsettle them further.

Days after the citizens of Boko had been evacuated to the astral kingdom, the area around the crater was occupied by outsiders. Civic authorities from Boko, the Adventure Society and a dozen other organisations had people in the area. Some were investigators, others were cleaning up the temporary camps. Many seemed to have no purpose at all, but refused to be excluded from the goings-on.

There was a new panic as portals once more appeared in the sky, high above the crater. These were even larger and more numerous than those used by the messenger army days earlier, and for good reason. Messengers poured out of them, far more than the invasion force, but they never came close to the people scrambling below.

On the ground, Jason was with his team and his team leader’s mother. They were running a catering operation, pretending like they weren’t waiting for the event that would kick a fresh hornet’s nest. The people under the canvas sun shelter couldn’t see what was happening, only the panic of those outside. Soon they were dropping everything and running.

Jason sighed, looking at the food that had been tossed aside on the ground. He figured something like this would happen, which was why he’d been running a sausage sizzle with cheap bread and bruschard sausages. The giant worm meat was plentiful in the area, and the first alien meat Jason had learned to cook.

Among the yelling and screaming, he calmly took off his apron and walked out to look up at the sky. His team moved to stand around him protectively, although no one was paying attention. The only threat was being bumped into by people who couldn’t seem to agree on which way to run.

Jason extended his power and a humongous ring of white stone appeared in the air. Larger even than the portals spewing out a deluge of messengers, it was positioned between them and the ground. It flared to life with portal energy, a massive sheet of silver, gold and blue light. Jason had gritted teeth as he exerted his power. To maintain such a large portal, he was tapping into his astral gate, pushing the limits of what his avatar body could manage.

The people on the ground were unsure of what to do.

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