Shadow Gambit - New Edition (LitRPG: Shadow For Hire Book 1) by Adam Drake

Author:Adam Drake [Drake, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: high tech, science fiction, series, fantasy, litrpg, adventure, cyberpunk, action, epic
Publisher: Adam Drake
Published: 2017-04-25T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Once back in the empty street we all filed in behind Mudhoof who made his way toward the center of town.

“I hate skulking around,” he said by way of explaining himself.

“Then you'd make a lousy thief,” Thorm said with a smile.

“True enough,” Mudhoof said. “But I can't stand waiting for things to happen. Got to forge ahead. We still have that other group out here somewhere and I don't think they'd be spending their time stuck in a building talking to an egg-head.”

Before anyone say anything else, Mudhoof held up his hand. “We're here,” he said.

We entered the town square. It was large and tiered down by several levels like a stadium. On the lowest level, at its center, sat a well. A strange set up by any medieval town's standards.

But that wasn't the strangest part of all.

There were people here. Hundreds of them. They looked to be townsfolk and all of them stood bunched together in a big crowd. But no one moved. Still as statues. And each were facing in one direction – toward the center, at the well.

“What the heck?” Muttered Thorm while he adjusted the grip on his great broadsword.

Not one person gave us so much as a glance. It was as if we didn't exist. Their entire focus was the well.

I looked at the people closest. They were dirty and their clothes disheveled as if they'd been fighting. But there was one detail that caused even greater concern other than their strange behavior.

They all had black veins marbled in their flesh.

“Oh, dear,” said Feign.

“Told ya,” Mudhoof said to me.

“What?” I asked, nervously surveying the huge rabble.

“All bottled up,” Mudhoof said. His confidence faltered a little at the sight of so many potential mutants. Each one could become as crazed and powerful as the mayor who nearly wiped us out all on his own.

I looked over the crowd, trying to guess their number. The game picked up on this and gave it to me: 1,006.

“Maybe we should just turn around and...” I said before the ground beneath our feet shook. The vibration was so hard the masonry of the nearby buildings cracked and windows shattered.

Our group fought to keep their balance. I used my Sure-Footed ability which locked my feet to the ground. The others didn't have it so easy.

Oblivious to the earthquake, the huge crowd of townspeople did not react at all, nor did any of them fall over. They continued staring at the well.

“What is going on?” Thorm asked.

As if in answer to his question, the well at the center of the square cracked violently. It shattered apart and the ground beneath it heaved.

“Something is making an entrance,” said Feign, he held a cluster of snowballs in the crook of one arm, and one in his hand at the ready.

“Not good, my sweet!” Phlixx said, as he perched on my shoulder, little crossbow with a flaming bolt pointed toward the crowd.

The gap of the broken well widened with the force of something underneath pushing upwards.

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