Luminether Online: A LitRPG Fantasy Adventure by Richard Denoncourt

Author:Richard Denoncourt [Denoncourt, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Self Land Publishing
Published: 2022-01-23T05:00:00+00:00

Carey brandished his new sword.

He almost asked Ara who Valhera was but decided against it. This wasn’t story time. The blade shined like polished chrome rims on a rapper’s new Bentley.

“Do you even care that you just hurt Will’s feelings?” Beatrice asked. “Did that even register in your brain as what the rest of us call ‘empathy’.”

“Do you always use such big words?” Carey waved the blade around, grinning at it. “Or are you just trying to impress me?”

Beatrice sighed curtly. “Hopeless,” she said, exiting the storage room. Carey hesitated for a moment before finally following her out.

Will sat against the darkened wall of the corridor. Beatrice lowered the torch and bent down like a teacher trying to reach a child sulking against the wall of a schoolyard.

“You okay?” she asked.

Carey tried to hide his new sword behind his leg. “Sorry, man. About the cocoon thing. I was just trying to get it over with.”

“I get it,” Will said, pushing himself up. “I’m just ready to go back home. I miss my… people.”

Carey sensed he had been about to say “mom,” then thought better of it.

Beatrice placed a hand on his shoulder. “Right now, we’re your people. Got that?”

“Yeah, Will...” Carey awkwardly placed his hand on Will’s other shoulder. “You’re by far the coolest Sorcerer I’ve ever met.”

This got a tiny smile from Will, though he mostly avoided Carey’s eyes.

“Let’s find that treasure,” Will said.

Finally, something they could agree on.

It was already 6:30 in the evening, and Carey could feel the dungeon crawl wearing him down. He yearned to be in a tavern, a frosty pint of beer in one hand and a fork in the other, ready to destroy a steak cooked bloody rare next to a pile of salted mashed potatoes.

The next two hours were more tedious than fun. Some of it was spent slogging through parts of the dungeon that were dark, wet, and on the verge of collapse. Spurts of action and combat followed where time seemed to fly. His favorite tactic was using his Stone of Binding to distract an enemy, then quietly taking said enemy down before moving on to the next.

Together, the party racked up an impressive list of kills and quite the bundle of loot and experience (1,920 points total for Carey). They managed to take out two more Torg females just as ugly and tough as the first; four young male fighters whom Carey was able to stalk and execute one-by-one; three adult male fighters, who took time and effort to beat; and two high-level shamans, who had to be taken out strategically and provided the most tension of any of the battles thus far.

The XP from the shamans wasn’t terrible at 980 points, but it was slightly better than the other groups had been. They earned another 1,050 after a battle with two young male spiders and an Elder that Will managed to send sailing into a dark pit after blasting it with a wind spell.

“You know what I think?” Carey asked while the others looted the young spiders’ corpses.

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