The God Machine: An Isekai LitRPG by EmergencyComplaints

Author:EmergencyComplaints [EmergencyComplaints]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Podium Publishing
Published: 2023-10-02T16:00:00+00:00

Minou introduced his family to Luke when they arrived, but he promptly forgot their names. He made pleasantries for a few minutes, then asked to be shown to the room he’d be using. It was a tiny thing, barely big enough for the narrow bed that occupied it. Still, it was a bed, and if it smelled a bit musty, Luke didn’t have a lot of room to judge.

He shucked the armor off, tossed the cloak over it to hide it, and leaned his mace up against the wall next to his bed. Then he extinguished the sole candle on the end table, not that he needed the light, and closed his eyes. It felt like only seconds had gone by when he heard the door creak open.

“Sir Guardian,” a voice hissed through the darkness. “The monster is back. We spotted it from the kitchen window.

Luke groaned and sat up. Of course it was. There was no such thing as a free meal. He was going to go out there, bash it really, really hard with a heavy piece of metal, and then go right back to sleep. Grumbling to himself, Luke picked up his mace and stalked out of the farmhouse.

It was easy to see the monster in the dark. Minou hadn’t been lying about how big it was either. If anything, he’d undersold it. The damn thing was the size of a utility van, not counting its tail. It was thick through the middle with muscle and walked on four legs. It had a lion’s head, complete with mane, except its eyes were slits like a snake. Just past its shoulders, fur gave way to scales, and its back legs looked like they belonged to a massive alligator instead of a great cat.

He didn’t spot a stinger at the end of the tail, but he wasn’t going to dismiss it as harmless. Images of it looping around his neck and crushing his throat danced through his mind. The chimera’s head shot up from its gruesome feast, some hapless farm animal that had been a bit slower than the rest of its flock, and a gore-stained muzzle turned toward Luke.

He could feel its XP, stronger than he’d expected. It was close to Luke’s, probably within a level of him. He kicked himself for not taking the time to put the damn armor on before he came out to fight, but it took so long to adjust all the straps, and he’d been expecting an easy victory.

“Let that be a lesson about not being an idiot. You took precautions for a reason. Follow through with them, dumbass.”

Still, he wasn’t that worried. Animals were never as challenging as sapient enemies of the same level. The template, or whatever it was System had called it, sucked away too much of their AP into utility skills. He could handle it as long as he was careful.

Wanting to end things quickly, Luke readied a [Power Strike] and burst into a sprint. The chimera’s lion head roared in challenge, and it bounded forward too.

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