He Who Fights with Monsters 2 by Shirtaloon

Author:Shirtaloon [Shirtaloon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, litRPG
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2021-05-18T04:00:00+00:00

Many people were eager to get aboard the cloud palace, now transformed back into a ship the size of an ocean liner. Boarding did not go as smoothly as planned for some when it was revealed that they were required to pass a simple aura test. Anyone whose aura didn’t match the Adventure Society records from prior to the expedition was excluded. Only a handful of people were caught out like this, but they were vocal in their protests. Instead of being heard, however, they were taken away for closer examination.

On the ship, Jason’s team were given their own cabins, alongside those assigned to Rufus, Gary, and Farrah’s parents. Rufus’s parents were staying in Greenstone, making discrete inquiries into the church of Purity. Their teammate, Cal, had already left to check out the Landemere estate. The bulk of the iron-rankers were all bunked together in crew dorms, while the actual crew enjoyed cabins like Emir’s guests.

As with the guest wing when it had been a cloud palace, the ship had a guest lounge with access to a broad side-deck. Humphrey quickly went to invite their friends out of the press of people domiciled together below decks, bringing back Rick and Beth's teams to enjoy their guest lounge. He brought along Lance and his team as well.

“Mose!” Jason greeted happily. “It’s been a while. What’s up, mate?”

“Beth finally let me in her team,” Mose said happily. “I think she wanted some extra power after you beat her like that.”

Mose Cavendish was Beth’s cousin, who Jason had known longer than Beth. They had met on a mission to escort spirit coins, where Jason had witnessed the destructive power of Mose’s spells.

“That wasn’t me,” Jason said. “You can blame Humphrey for that one. He predicted exactly how your cousin would react if we could put her on the back foot.”

Rufus and Gary soon joined them and the group socialised as the ship sailed its way south down the coast. It was only a few hours before it sailed into shore at an unremarkable patch of desert. Emir’s people started unloading sand barges from the ship. None were the size of the great Ustei tribe barge that Jason had seen in the pitched battle against the sand pirate tribe, but three of them were enough to transport the whole group inland to Sky Scar Lake.

It was hours more, going into the night, before the barges arrived at the shores of the lake, vast almost to the point of an inland sea. It was an enormous oasis in the desert, a blessed eye of blue and green in the hard, yellow face of the desert. The lights of villages along the shore of the lake shone in the early dark. There were towns and villages situated all around the lake and the sand barges disembarked their charges at the largest.

The adventurers were notified that they would begin in the morning. The townsfolk had been warned ahead of time about the coming influx and had beds for those who wanted them or food and drink for those who didn’t.

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