The Cheater's Return by Brian McGoldrick

The Cheater's Return by Brian McGoldrick

Author:Brian McGoldrick [McGoldrick, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-26T05:00:00+00:00


Inheritance of Crom Cruach

Unknown Location

Unknown Time

"You are weak. If you are to overcome this trial, you must realize your Skills."

"What do you mean?"

"The Trial of Battle. You must endure and overcome." The deep voice of the mental imprint booms so loudly that it hurts my ears.

Without any warning, the world around me changes in less time than it takes to blink. I am no longer in the circular room. I find myself standing on a plain with dirt the color of blood. I look in all directions, but at a distance of about a hundred meters, a cloud of blood colored mist cuts off my vision. The lighting is about the level of twilight. It is just dark enough to impede vision but not dark enough for my Night Vision to activate.

Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.

It sounds like heavy footsteps, a lot of them. There should be at least ten people. Are they even people?

The footsteps come closer, and a group of ten things walks out of the blood mist. They are about my size, but if they are Half-Giants, they are the radiation mutant version of Half-Giants. They have bulging muscles, but their bodies are deformed. Their limbs are bent. Their backs are twisted. They have cancerous looking lumps rising from their flesh. Their eyes are filled with a mix of surprise and bloodthirsty madness. For a moment, they look around in confusion, and then, their eyes fixate on me.

"Raaaarrrrrrr!"

The mutants charge at me. Their surprise and confusion are gone. Only, their bloodthirsty madness remains.

Identify Monster. Nothing happens. It seems that in this trial I cannot use my game Abilities. If I had other active Abilities, would they work?

The mental imprint did say that I need to realize my Skills. Skills and Abilities are two entirely different things, so maybe, I can only use my Skills?

I activate my QCP vision, but I cannot see any Shackles. I do not have the feeling that my vision has shifted in the way it does to see them. Did it not activate, or is there some other reason?

Maybe, that mental imprint told the truth, and the Shackles of the Domination really do not reach wherever I am.

I smile grimly. With or without game Skills, I have had to fight all my life. My father was a piece of shit gangster and pimp. He put my mother out on the streets and did not give a shit what happened to me. I grew up on the streets and first learned to fight before I started school. My mother hid away money to send me to a good school, but I was an outsider. I was targeted by the slightly wealthy shits that filled the school, but I was used to fighting. When they came after me, I made them pay with pain.

After my piece of shit father got himself killed, things went from bad to shit. My mother got strung out, and the money for school went away. I practically lived on the streets.

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