The Hero Slayers Tempt Fate: A LitRPG Adventure by O. S. Marrow

Author:O. S. Marrow [Marrow, O. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Podium Publishing
Published: 2026-03-10T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

Spoken like a True Monster

All of us took a semiunconscious step back, our base instincts driving us to put as much space between us and the corrupted man as possible. But it wouldn’t be enough. If this corruption played by the same rules as all the mala-created corruption we’d faced down in the past, then we absolutely could not let him—it?—touch us.

“Out!” I shouted.

Lore, Ama, and Carle, who were closest to the door, bombed outside. At the same moment, I opened a portal. Corminar, having been around me long enough, knew that it was coming, and jumped through immediately. But Raelas took another half second to realize, so I grabbed her by the arm and yanked her through, allowing the portal to close behind me just as the monster reached out for us.

The portal snapped shut, and—

No, I realized, it hadn’t. The creature’s fingertips were already across the portal’s threshold, and it pushed itself into the faint purple magicks. Fingertips became hand, which became arm, which became snarling body. Alenna hadn’t been kidding; this monster had brains. It really was a level up on the malae we’d battled before, not that they were unintelligent by any means.

The creature snarled as it pushed itself through the portal, stumbling to the ground in the courtyard, and it hissed something that I almost thought was a word. Missed? Must?

“Plan, Styk?” Raelas asked.

“Same as always: kill it with fire.” I looked to Lore, and on this signal he charged to the front of the group, Carle following close at his side, both of them wielding flaming torches.

The monster recoiled at the sight of fire, snarling, but it wasn’t warded off. Not that we wanted to ward it off; if it ran, then it could hurt more people before we could put it down.

“Ama,” I shouted, glancing to the metal mage then nodding to the one alleyway leading out of the courtyard, “take the exit. Make sure it doesn’t escape.”

The woman nodded, and did immediately as commanded. Whatever Raelas had said to her about following orders had worked.

Lore and Carle pressed forward with their torches, pushing the creature back into the corner of the courtyard, keeping it hemmed in. But I wasn’t under any illusions that it would be this easy; already I could see those black eyes darting around, searching for a way to fight back.

Corminar hurried to the side of the two large men, then raised a clothbound arrowhead to Lore’s torch, setting it alight. In a flash, he nocked the now-flaming arrow and shot it at the monster’s chest. As fire met corruption, its flesh sizzled like food in a frying pan, and the creature squealed with pain.

When the sizzling faded, it snapped its dark eyes to Corminar, and it growled.

“Cor, I think it’s—” Lore started.

The corrupted man then launched into the air, soaring above both Lore and Carle—no easy feat—and landing behind them, at Corminar’s side. The elf froze for just a moment, but fortunately I was quicker to react.

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