Lost Souls and a Demoness 2: A LitRPG Adventure by N. C. Lux

Author:N. C. Lux [Lux, N. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mango Media LLC
Published: 2025-11-24T00:00:00+00:00

After a couple of days of rest, Jade was feeling physically and mentally refreshed. With her injuries fully healed and the fabric of society visibly fraying around the edges, she was ready to get back to work. The hardest part was leaving Alan, but she promised she’d speak to him again before returning to the Labyrinth. Knowing that they’d now be able to visit Earth periodically also helped, although she suspected they’d be far too busy to do so with any regularity.

“I’ll be back soon,” Jade said, giving her brother a hug.

“Promise safe, not soon.”

She opened her mouth to reply, but the words died in her throat. Her heart clenched as images of blood, pain, and death flashed through her mind. Any such promise would be a lie, and Jade couldn’t bring herself to tell it.

The flight from Detroit to DC took a little over two hours, and Jade arrived to find that she was the first of her group back in L-ReF territory. It was the evening of her fourth day back on Earth, and she was growing increasingly aware of the timer ticking down in the submenu of her interface. She was assigned a hotel room and was asked, well, more like politely instructed, to report to the headquarters first thing in the morning.

After that, Jade was left alone in her room. It felt odd to not be around anyone. The last time she had truly been alone was immediately following her summoning into the Labyrinth. Those memories rose unbidden from the depths of her mind as she sat on the bed, staring out the window at the empty streets below. Her desperate flight, the brutal conflict, and the shroud of fear. That fear had never gone away. She’d just gotten better at bottling it up.

Jade spent the rest of the night practicing some of Aylin’s and Serrethis’s meditation techniques, focusing on calming her aura. She combined them with some of the old methods she’d used to combat nerves in her competitions. It helped a little, and she woke the next morning feeling, if not calm, then well enough to project the aura of confidence that she needed.

She arrived at L-ReF headquarters just after sunrise and was greeted by an aide who escorted her to a conference room. This wasn’t the same one they’d met with the director in but a larger, grander space that was more of a ballroom with some scattered tables and chairs. Luis and Naomi were already there, seated at one of the tables and conversing quietly. There were a few other small groups clustered about the room, although Jade didn’t recognize anyone else. Their wayfarer status was immediately apparent, however, both from the glowing sigils on the backs of their hands and the presence of a couple of non-humans in their mix.

“What is this?” Jade asked the aide, pausing at the threshold of the room.

“We’re facilitating meetings between wayfarers,” he explained, noting something on a clipboard. “Part of our effort to pool resources and information.

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