The Enchanter by Roman Prokofiev

Author:Roman Prokofiev [Prokofiev, Roman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788076191488
Publisher: Magic Dome Books
Published: 2020-07-07T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

THIS DIDN’T LOOK good. Not the best moment to die, that’s for sure.

“Miko? How can we get rid of them?”

“These are A-energents. They don’t respond to physical attacks, only Azuric damage. Our current stocks are low. Running a quick analysis… Analysis complete. Four options available.

“Option No 1: to unleash the Fiend trapped in your dagger. Potential outcome: that might distract the Voids temporarily, with high probability of the Fiend’s complete destruction.

“Option No 2: to use the available neurospheres in order to upgrade your brain centers. Potential outcome: a fifty to sixty percent probability of neutralizing the effects of the Wail of the Soul.

“Option No 3: to implant the Rat King genome and use the Leader of the Pack ability to repel the Voids’ attacks. Potential outcome: high probability of entering into psionic resonance with the attackers, with unpredictable consequences.

“Option No 4: to flee. This is the riskiest scenario of all. Potential outcome: death in an outbreak of Azure.”

Okay. So Option No 1 would only delay them. Also, I couldn’t really control the Fiend at the best of times. He could very easily shift his focus to Alice, believing her to be a tastier morsel. Unless we used him to distract the Voids while we fled as of Option No. 4… but no, that was really a last-resort scenario. Fleeing into the Azuric storm rife with fantastical monsters – we might just as well die here and now.

Option No 2 could in theory save me – but it wasn’t much help to Alice. The Voids would simply attack her, as simple as that. I wasn’t sure if they were capable of damaging a Lilith-bound ethereal body but I had a funny feeling her prospects weren’t rosy. A psionic attack of this caliber could cripple her already-damaged mind, plunging it into madness. Also, that would be a disruption to my carefully planned-out development route. So that was a no.

That left Option No 3: the Rat King genome. Leader of the Pack. I’d have to leave implanting Hydra genome until better days. It wasn’t much help in this situation, anyway, as our enemies didn’t deal us any physical damage: they mangled their victim’s mind and their very soul, the proverbial “anima” which became my receptacle between incarnations.

Gradually the Voids were coming back, seeping through the walls. Gasping, Alice stood with Claw of Helheim at the ready, slowly drawing it through the air as she waited for them to get closer.

Then she turned to me. “Grey. Enchanter. Azure. Kill!” she invested all her desperation into gasped words.

She was basically asking me to use my supposed Azuric abilities which I, if the truth were known, really didn’t have yet. And according to Miko, Enchanters were the most effective class against this kind of threat.

Oh well, that was it, then. I had to do it. We had very little time left. You never know, Rat King’s genome just might help me bring this ghostly bunch under control.

Plus, activating the Leader of the Pack brought me one step closer to my first Evolution.

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