The Mechanical Heart: (Book Five) (Sci-Fi LitRPG Series) (The Feedback Loop 5) by Harmon Cooper

Author:Harmon Cooper
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Boycott Books
Published: 2016-10-13T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“Time to cammie up,” Doc snaps his finger as we approach the town and he’s clad in a gray-black-white digital urban camo vest and matching shorts. He taps his dome and his face is suddenly zebra striped in black-white-gray grease paint.

“Pfft. That’s your idea of concealment?” Sophia asks. She shakes her hair out and her body fades into translucence. “This – this is concealment,” says the pompous, earnest lacuna that stands before us. “And if you want to see how really amazing this effect actually is, equip your Reaper mask.”

I do as instructed and find absolutely nothing before me aside from a smug, self-satisfied invisible vacuole and the stone pathway that leads past to the entrance to Chrono’s village.

“Not bad at all.” I hand the skull to Doc and he takes a peek. A faun with a skull mask, just another day in the life.

“That’s impressive; way better than mine.” he concedes. “Can you do all of us like that?”

Shimmy shimmy ya, shimmy yam, shimmy yay. My life bar flashes white, or effervesces, or something like that to indicate that the Knights are now incognito. The four of us are still semi-visible to each other, but not so visible to the commoners and NPCs around us.

A scruffy anklebiter playing nearby, garbed in the obligatory peasant’s rags and tatters kicks a leather ball in my direction. I kick it back to him, much to his dismay.

“A ghost! A ghost!” he screams to his friends, who are having a desultory game of dodge-rock and disturbing the flocks of ducks who live by the lake that’s Kayi’s only tourist attraction.

The kids scream, shriek, and fleetly beat feet – all reet? Good riddance.

Frances Euphoria: That was cruel!

Me: Sometimes an NPC needs a nightmare or two to remember they’re living in a dream.

Frances Euphoria: That was almost poetic.

Sophia: More like pathetic. How’s Rocket?

Frances Euphoria: He’s killing giant worms, a lot of them, too.

Me: And the others?

Frances Euphoria: If you mean Dolly and Burly, I don’t know. I haven’t been watching what’s happening with Rocket, just getting occasional updates and obligatory screenshots. Come to think of it, Dolly was naked in one of the shots. Every time she has a brain freeze she wants to take her clothes off.

Aiden steps out a slit in the air. He points in the direction of Chrono’s place, flashes two fingers at me.

“She got Reaperzilla with her?”

He shakes his head.

Doc moves up close. “You can talk as long as you keep it low; I don’t think we’re in earshot of Chrono’s place yet.”

“She’s alone.”

“Then why two fingers?” I ask.

“Chrono is there too.”

Doc mumbles something about enrolling the Knights in a remedial combat counting course as he moves past us.

“It’d be best to attack her with advantage on our side.” Sophia says after she has caught up with Doc. “Unfortunately, I don’t have any charms or enchanted items that will give us any particular advantage. Veenure might have some of her own, which means that you must … um … ” She stops.

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