The Architect King by Christopher Schmitz

Author:Christopher Schmitz [Schmitz, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TreeShaker Books
Published: 2020-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

Zabe could feel the urban vibrations of the city above him as he stalked through the dark tunnels. His lycan eyes allowed him to see capably in the dark and his senses reported that he was close. Even in the subterranean black he could read the graffiti. Hadyuka. The word, and a spray-painted snake, marked that he’d been following the right trail.

He wore one of Respan’s scanner gadgets. Before leaving the Prime weeks ago, he’d had just enough wits about him to grab a few supplies, the scanner among them. Using the device, he had tracked down any lead he could find, and there was a heavy concentration of leads in the Odessa catacombs. He’d had to rely on his keen lycan sense of smell while in his wolf form. The scanner showed the location and distance to the brightly glowing blip, but the Ukranian tunnels beneath the city of Odessa created the largest labyrinth on the planet. Tracking his prey through it required more than a heading and distance.

Zabe sniffed the ground near the marker. It smelled strongly of vyrm scents. The odor from the air near the next turn had grown to its strongest yet. Maybe two turns until I find the nest?

He growled in the dark and hurried through the catacombs. Zabe twisted around one corner and turned the next. He met the surprised faces of a vyrm cell.

The wolf roared and leapt upon the first one. The next two put up a little resistance, but Zabe easily overpowered them in his massive werewolf shape. He whirled in the dark and turned to a group of six shades. They wore the disguises of local politsiya and had their firearms trained on him.

Zabe did not want to kill innocent folk who might be caught up in extra-dimensional affairs they knew nothing about.

They shouted orders for him to stop in the local language and stiffened their gun arms as the werewolf growled and slowly turned to face them. Their smell filled his nose and confirmed their vyrmic identities to Zabe. Definitely shades.

He roared and ducked as the police opened fire. The werewolf shrugged off the marginal small arms fire that bit his hide and he leapt into their midst, slashing with his claws. It was over within moments and the chamber again laid quiet, reeking of vyrm blood and gun smoke.

The battery operated lights provided enough light to see by, here, and Zabe melted back into his human shape. A table in the middle of the room was filled with materials and several maps had been hung on a wall. Pins in the map marked locations across a couple nearby countries.

Zabe paused when he realized that he’d already been to many of those places. He looked closer at the world map. There were roughly fifty pins across the planet and they had heads of two different colors.

He traced his finger backwards across the line he’d cut across Europe and traced his route backwards. This was the seventh vyrm cell he’d wiped out since embarking on his quest.

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