The Primeval Apocalypse: A LitRPG Adventure by Robert S. Keene & Alex Raizman

Author:Robert S. Keene & Alex Raizman [Keene, Robert S. & Raizman, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 40

Reconnaissance Mission

Brachiating through the canopy had changed a lot since we’d completed our first climb.

In addition to our much higher skills, Noaich also benefited from my skill achievements, which let us play much faster and looser with our routing. Our movement style had transitioned from a slow and steady path along the stronger branches we could find into a hybrid between that and what the wolf-cats had done, dancing along the tops of branches that could only support us for a single step as we cut between the larger branches we could swing from.

From Noaich’s mood, I expected to have to physically stop him when we approached the mandrill. He seemed quietly enraged at the audacity of one of his former captors to exist where we could see them. To my surprise, though, when we came within our detection radius of the mandrill, he pulled up short so that we could appraise the situation and come up with an intelligent approach.

From where we were, I could see that much of the wolf-cat pack was making a controlled effort to retreat. In addition to several of them fleeing the area, a small number were huddled in the rotted-out trunk of a dead tree on the forest floor beneath us. Presumably there were more in there, and I’d failed on my detection skill checks to defeat their stealth skill, but that wasn’t important.

What was important was the mandrill. It did look like it was riding a dimetrodon—or at least some kind of giant sail-backed creature—by straddling its neck. The dimetrodon was slower at brachiating around the canopy than the wolf-cats, but the mandrill was holding something that I honestly had to see with my own eyes rather than my enhanced senses before I could acknowledge it.

Because from here, it looked like a crossbow.

It was hunting the wolf-cats and dispatching them with quick and brutal efficiency one after another wherever it could find them.

“Alright,” I said quietly to Noaich. “What’s the plan?”

The reptile was vibrating with rage, but that meant that this was the perfect time to ask. There were few opportunities to really test his intelligence, and I couldn’t afford to miss one.

Challenging him would make him stronger, and if he wanted to be a wizard lizard, his mind was where he needed to be strongest.

I was pleased to see my companion take a moment to calm himself visibly. He recognized the need to think clearly. Noaich also recognized the need to use his expanded senses and find a logical course with actual information, not just his gut instinct for violence.

As he thought about the problem, the wolf-cats mounted a counter-offensive on the mounted mandrill. Just shy of a dozen of them converged on it, using the same tactics they’d used against us. The mandrill and its mount took a few scratches and bites, but it was just a few seconds before the two of them tore apart the attack force. The mount did a lot of the work on the

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