Respawn: Blade of the Ancients (Respawn LitRPG series Book 5) by Arthur Stone

Author:Arthur Stone [Stone, Arthur]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Even people who cared little for bows would cut their best friend’s throat for one like this. Players called it “broken.” Even the weakest of ghouls would drop 3 experience points when slain by it, rather than the usual 1. Those points wouldn’t even go to Accuracy or some other stat, but would instead be distributable. Not entirely distributable, to be fair, but within broad categories. Progress points were always limited somehow. Experience had to be earned by sweat and blood—by completing acts of ever-increasing difficulty and complexity.

Cheater would have improved his faithful weapon even more if he’d had the opportunity. He’d set a limit on the mods he would use on his items, a stressful choice that his intuition nonetheless trusted. Logic helped convince him: if these people wanted to kill him, they wouldn’t go through all this trouble. Why drag him through swamplands for half the night and morning when they could have just killed him right at the gate, even in his bed? With his caches set up and his items bound, plus his new map, he wouldn’t even mind losing a life…except that he was keen on discovering the identity of his mysterious new “fan.” Perhaps the bow was a fabrication, but his intuition told him these people might offer other opportunities.

If his intuition failed him here, however, he’d lose a lot of the trust in himself he’d been building as of late. He might not mind losing a life for good reason, but he hated to throw one away just because he was following his “inner voice.” No bow in the world was truly worth this journey and risk. This Patron, whoever he was, knew too much about Cheater, including knowing exactly how to tempt him into meeting. The hint about helping Kitty had sealed the deal: it was an offer he couldn’t refuse. If they spoke the truth, perhaps he would no longer need to suffer his recurring nightmares of discovering Kitty’s icon black and struck through. Perhaps he’d finally shake the insidious voice telling him he’d never see the girl of his dreams again.

“Tired of the mud?” Drowner called back to Cheater.

“I’m starting to like it, actually,” Cheater snarked. “Any places it gets deeper? I’d like to dunk my head.”

“Don’t worry, there’s a non-swamp cluster coming up soon. After some black, all of it dry, we’ll arrive.”

“There’s no other way?”

“There is. Vehicles can’t take it, but it’s quite easy to traverse on foot. No mud.”

“So why didn’t we go that way!?”

“Not a convenient way from Fifth Mine. Plus, we don’t know you, meaning we don’t trust you. We have to put you through the wet clusters first. That way, if you’re not really interested, you’ll turn back early on. If you’re interested, you’ll persevere. It’s a way to see if you’re a spy, or someone who’s been bought.”

“Let me guess: you hang spies up by the balls, too,” Cheater grumbled.

“That’s right. Even if there are no trees around. We always find a way.

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