Phantom Pains by Noble Nick

Author:Noble, Nick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

“... couldn’t believe it! Unless they received direct orders to interfere, my brethren were truly willing to just leave you mortals to perish beneath the thumb of the Heralds of Darkness. So I did what I thought was right. I readied my weapons and stole into the armory, where I took a radiant crown for myself so that I could navigate the cosmos. But before I could take flight, I was attacked by one of my sisters, Michelle. I leapt from Paradise and she tackled me from behind. That bitch tried to steal my crown and have me detained. Whilst I am proud to say that I retained custody of my crown, I am sorry to say that in our struggle, I lost focus for a moment. Michelle disarmed me, dislodged my crown, and nearly clawed my eyes out. I bested her, but in the effort, crashed directly into your motor-chariot, landing us here,” Gabby, the super hot amazonian angel with abs of steel (and tits I wouldn’t mind suffocating under) concluded.

“Huh. That was quite a story,” Selene admitted.

She was right, Gabby’s tale had been compelling and full of twists I did not see coming. The angel had served as the right hand to the gods for thousands of years without question, until one day she peeked behind the curtain and discovered the halls of Paradise were built upon the bones of countless mortals and the corpses of entities older than the gods themselves.

She, along with all the rest of her fellow angels, were some of the earliest prototypes for what mortal souls would eventually become. They were engineered to be flawless and obedient, which ultimately made them pretty boring to the gods so they were replaced by the more deeply flawed mortals such as myself, but did make them pretty useful foot soldiers for the gods to use in their constant inter-pantheon wars. To use more modern terminology they were like androids, crafted from starlight rather than silicon. How that worked I had no idea, I don’t call the shots here and I sure as shit don’t understand magic, I just fuck pretty girls and shoot monsters. That’s it. That’s what Ryan Stryker is all about and that’s how I want it to stay.

Whether or not I’d get a say in any of that remained to be seen. Since, if current trends persisted, there were bound to be more world-ending plots lurking just around the corner even after we dealt with Gertrude and Kevin.

“These Heralds of Darkness guys don’t sound too good,” Euna said quietly as we walked along the highway towards Camp Ferris.

The sun was slowly dipping closer to the horizon. At this rate we would arrive just a little while before twilight, which was when Hannah warned that the evil phantoms led by Gertrude would be convening.

“Oh, no,” Gabby reassured her, “they are not. You will never find a more wretched group in all the cosmos than the Heralds. Even demons have limits. Even monsters have lines they won’t cross.

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