Killer Dungeon by Tucker Phil

Author:Tucker, Phil
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

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It was some kind of Cthulhu-esque octopus, large enough that its many limbs encircled the entirety of the dungeon complex. Even the crimson dragon that slumbered in its vast natural cavern was dwarfed by the size of this shadow monstrosity. As my eyes adjusted to the movement of its great tentacles, horror caused the pit of my stomach to drop out. Its eye alone was the size of a football field.

This wasn’t a boss. This was a foe of demi-god status.

I activated Mute Presence in the vain hopes of losing its attention. No dice. The eye remained locked on me – as best I could tell – and the huge limbs swooped down with all the finality of multiple avalanches.

I hit Shadow Step and reached for the closest hallway. The darkness didn’t envelop me as it might have in the real world, but instead sent me spearing through the night toward my destination. The world blurred and then just as suddenly stopped; I blinked, saw that I was perhaps sixty or seventy yards closer to the softly glowing hallway, but that was no good. I might as well have been a mile away.

One of the tentacles swooshed past me, missing me by yards. Its backdraft caused the shadows to boil, and I spun away again. With a cry I turned my Shadow Step into a Double Step and sent myself rocketing away, spearing off blindly into the darkness. A flash of blurred light and I came out higher up in the void. I tried to get my bearings only to see another tentacle flail toward me.

Without even time to curse, I triggered Double Step once more, aiming for the central chamber wherein Ragnar and the others still conversed. Once more I flew toward them, faster than I could comprehend, but this time when I emerged it was just in time to be slammed by a moving wall of rubbery flesh.

One of the tentacles brushed by me, knocking me senseless. I toppled away, head spinning, gorge rising. It was like trying to avoid a fleet of trucks barreling toward you at full speed down a fifty-lane highway.

A sucker pad the size of a swimming pool came shrieking out of the darkness toward me. I threw up my hand and screamed, “Blammo!”

A cone of force flooded out of the Ring of the Bull. It had no effect on the sucker pad, but instead sent me blasting backward as if I’d hit the bottom of a huge trampoline and suddenly surged up toward the sky. Arms windmilling, terror cramping my throat, I tried to twist around, see what I’d thrown myself toward, and saw that the god-kraken wasn’t the only terror out here.

Something like a black and purple cuttlefish from hell was racing toward me, easily the size of an elephant and with tentacles that ended in horrific hooks. There were more behind it, a flock of them, or a pod or school of them or whatever.

All of them zeroing in on me.

I drew my Void Blade in a spasm of horrified futility and summoned two of my Shadow Spears.

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