High Gloom by Eric Ugland

Author:Eric Ugland [Ugland, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Air Quotes Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2020-12-21T06:00:00+00:00

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Two things became immediately clear. One: it’s not always the best idea to listen to a little voice inside yourself, especially when you happen to be sharing your body with another creature. Two: there was really no reason for me to try and get up close and personal with the opponents, considering I could just drop fireballs on them from afar.

With the wind whipping by me, I whispered: “Corpse king, you dick bag, you better have a way out of this or we’re both going splat.”

I didn’t so much here the laughter in my head as feel it.

Which reminds me of a saying I’d once heard: don’t jump unless you know how you’re landing.

I felt my left hand moving through a weird set of motions I’d never learned before, followed by a draw from my mana pool. Deciding that my left hand better know what it was doing, I used my right hand to whip up a fireball, throwing it down right in the area where I thought I was going to be smacking into the ground. Better to smack into charred dead flesh than living creatures with pokey weapons. The creatures, meanwhile, had grown tired of Erling’s posturing, and were in the midst of their charge.

The fireball smashed into the front few lines of creatures, hitting with explosive force. I felt the heat wash over me.

In the last second before I was going to hit, my left hand released its spell.

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