Monster Mansion 2 by Dante King

Author:Dante King [King, Dante]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Todd Hammerfist, his brother Josh, and their leader, Sarah Windvane, parked their car in a side street most of the way up the hill and got out as quietly as they could. They had driven out to arrive in the middle of the night, because Sarah had figured that the denizens of the suburb where Kyrine was hiding would not be thrilled to see a bunch of heavily armed outlanders in their neighborhood.

As they were getting their gear out of the boot, Todd and Josh were arguing in whispers.

“The Technomancer is real!” Josh asserted, but Todd was shaking his head.

“It’s a myth,” Todd said, as he hauled his warhammer out of the boot and leaned it against the car. Todd was a healer, and he had a range of potions on a clip belt around his waist. Another belt crossed his chest, with hard polymer vials full of stims, painkillers, and healing potions. He still wanted to be able to deal damage if he needed to, however, so he carried his big brass-plated warhammer into every fight.

Josh, whose specialty was ranged support, was fitting a quiver of crossbow bolts over one shoulder. He had a crossbow in his hand, a huge thing that could fire enchanted bolts as well as regular heavy steel ones. He had an axe at his belt for close work, and a pair of long-barreled enchanted pistols slung in holsters on his belt like some fantastic half-troll cowboy.

Sarah was clipping armor on over her regular clothes. She was armed to the teeth, with daggers, deployable caltrops, two smaller one-handed swords, and the massive two-handed sword that was her most prized possession. Her armor was Kevlar mesh overlaid with plate steel, enchanted so that she felt the weight of it as little as possible. The steel would stop swords, but the Kevlar inlaid below would stop a bullet. It covered every part of her body, and her helmet had a visor that she could lower, completely protecting her face.

All of this was essential for a dungeon diver. Though the only dungeons they ran were simulations, the VR programs were designed so that blows, bullets, and spells all behaved the same as they would in real life. The only difference was that they didn’t kill.

There would be no such quarter given in a real dungeon, Sarah was sure of that.

“What do you say, boss?” asked Josh, interrupting Sarah’s thoughts as she closed up the vehicle. She glanced at him, feeling annoyed. The brothers had been bickering since they’d gotten on the road, and she felt she had more important things to worry about right now. “What do I think about what?” she asked irritably, locking the car and stepping away.

Josh didn’t seem to notice her tone. He hefted his crossbow on his back and followed her. “Do you think the Technomancer is the real deal, or do you think it’s just a hoax?”

Sarah didn’t answer at first.

They began to make their way slowly up the hill. The

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