Pit Fighter: A LitRPG Progression Fantasy (Victor of Tucson Book 1) by Plum Parrot

Author:Plum Parrot [Parrot, Plum]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Podium Publishing
Published: 2023-01-16T13:00:00+00:00

24

BEETLES

Three of Lam’s Furies had died fighting the stickmen. Nobody seemed particularly broken up about it, and Victor couldn’t help imagining himself in their shoes; one minute, they were marching along, joking and laughing with other prisoners, and the next they were buried under some rubble, forgotten at the bottom of a deep pit in the ground. “If this is the fucking bottom,” he said, spitting into the dirt.

“What?” Gris asked.

“Just thinking about how shitty this is. Those dudes we just buried—nobody’s gonna remember them. Their families probably already considered them lost, right? I mean, I can’t imagine people are happy to hear about their loved ones coming to Greatbone Mine. Here one minute, alive and fighting, gone the next, forgotten so they can be replaced by the next poor suckers the foreman sends down.” They were sitting on some rubble, eating hard rolls and dried meat that one of the veterans had handed out.

“Welcome to life, kid. Work as hard as you want, be as important as you want, but when you die, the world moves on.” Gris handed a skin of watery wine to Victor, and he took a long drink. It wasn’t strong enough to give him even a slight buzz, but at least it was something different.

“Yeah, it’s just bullshit, that’s all. I’m sick of being led around like a dog, told to fight one thing after another.” He spoke softly so as not to draw attention to himself, but he had to say something to someone. Gris chewed his hard, crunchy bread, staring at Victor for a moment before he replied.

“Victor, you know I’m not really your friend, right? I’ll have your back in a fight, as long as we’re fighting what Lam tells us to, but don’t get any ideas that I’m going to help you escape or some crazy thing. I’ve been down here three years and have five more months to go. I’m going to make it, and I won’t do anything that’ll stick my neck out. You understand me?”

“Yeah, I feel you.” Victor sat back against the stone and stared up at the ceiling, a hundred feet above. He studied the little sparkles in the rock that had to be reflections of the glowing Energy lamp. What made the reflections? Gemstones? Eyes? Flakes of ore? He had no idea, so he stopped worrying about it. “Hey, how long we gonna get to rest?”

“Probably until Captain Lam comes back. She’s scouting ahead into the ruins around here. Could be ten minutes, could be a couple hours.” Gris stretched out and hung an arm over his eyes. Victor sat up and cleared his mind, focusing inward on his Core. If he was going to get out of this place, he needed to be stronger, and he couldn’t get much stronger until he fixed his Core. Could he fix it? He decided he had to; he was tired of being told what to do, and there was no way he’d be spending five years in this place.

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