Speedrunning the Multiverse 2: A LitRPG Adventure by Adastra339

Author:Adastra339 [Adastra339]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2023-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

THIRTY-FIVE

NEW BLOOD (IV)

It was a sensation he’d never get used to in part because he’d gone so long without it. That feeling of smallness, nearly stifling, hit like a shock of cold water to the face. Then it settled in on him, cloaking him like a straitjacket. Making stones of his limbs.

A lesser human might’ve fainted on the spot. As it was, he had to scream at his limbs to move. His body’s instincts had all gone haywire. The great beast—some kind of flood dragon by the looks of its phosphorescent scales, its angular face and sleek build—flicked its head, its maw creaking, holding back a throat-full of toxic death.

Before a flash of volcanic red pummeled it upside the head. The blast was sudden and so violent it felt like the world was ending. Dorian was nearly thrown over by the aftershock. He glanced to his left and saw a drake rising from the sands, gushing gray blood from a litany of wounds. An eye was poked out. The other smoldered with hate.

It bellowed so deeply the sound seemed to rattle around Dorian’s bones. Then it leapt up, spewing liquid fire, and the world was washed out once more.

Dorian’s eardrums felt like they’d been punctured. All he heard was static and a shrill whine, then an unnatural silence. The attack did, however, draw the flood dragon’s attention. And with it went that chest-crushing pressure. Dorian could breathe again.

He took the chance and sprinted instantly for the Bone. In his head, he kept up a count, not of footsteps but of heartbeats. There was a certain trap he’d sprung. He needed to make certain he got the timing just right.

Now, he was close enough to see it clearly. It was a scale nearly the size of his palm, a deep-ocean green, glowing like a gemstone in the dying light. What little light there was slipped and slid off its polished, curved surface. There wasn’t a scratch or chip on it. It was thin as a nail. It arrested the gaze, hypnotic. Its surface was like the sinkhole itself, a gaping, vast maw you couldn’t help but be drawn into.

Its presence was another kind of pressure. Not a blunt, heavy weight, but something more insidious, under-the-skin. So thick his lungs strained at the effort. It took great hacks to drag in the air now. Still, he went, sweat pouring down his head, blocking out the chaos all around him. Only one thing mattered now.

The last three steps seemed to take an eternity. Behind him, twin explosions rocked the world. Then he reached out, shoving his hand through the air.

This close, it felt like his hand was repelled by a magnet. The closer he got, the slower his fingers got, the more they trembled. It was an infuriating slowdown this close. It was seconds spent he could not afford. He felt his heart thrashing in his chest. How long might that drake distract the flood dragon?

His hands clasped around the Bone.

In an instant, he drew it into the interspatial ring.

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