The Alchemist of Aetheria: A LitRPG Adventure by Jared Mandani & LitRPG Freaks

Author:Jared Mandani & LitRPG Freaks [Mandani, Jared]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8: Differences of POV

“They will still kill me. I must go deeper. I must hide here, wait for them to move on,” Zack told her as they were looting the green corpses.

“Maybe they won’t,” AliceX replied. “If you go deeper, you’ll die for sure. Here, carry this Warhammer +26, it’s too heavy for me. I’ll tell them you helped us with these Orks. Right? Maybe they won’t. Sheesh. You’re like my little brother.”

“How’s that?”

“You’re also helpless. You’re both endangered species,” she said. “Let’s go. You have nowhere else to go anyway, do you?”

“I’ll stay here,” Zack said.

“No you will not.” AliceX equipped her bow, a peacock-feathered arrow nocked and deadly. “I’m sorry. I promised to bring you back if you survived. Not leave you behind our backs.”

“Please,” he begged.

“No can do,” AliceX replied. “You’re a known griefer. And a camper. And a crab.”

“Okay, you know what?” Zack finally got angry. “You girls have this strange tendency to sacrifice us boys to something weird, make us do things you’ll maybe regret later. Okay. I will die, but I will go down fighting. And you will be sorry to see me killed.”

“Don’t try to put this on me,” AliceX said. “I’m on your side.”

“You will be very sorry. You will be watching this, and you will be very sorry.”

“Look, I am already sorry I saved you, okay?” she said. “Maybe it would have been easier. I mean you are SO pathetic. All you do is pity yourself. He will go down fighting, ha. Fight your way free, make me respect you, man! Kill them all and I’ll follow you. You’ve got Permadeath on? Go for the altar and switch it off, come on.”

“If only you would go with me,” Zack said. “If only you would, I’d show you the altar is gone. Broken. Doesn’t work anymore. No way to switch anything off. And I mean…”

He shook his hands and ran them through his hair, hoping to demonstrate to her he feels no VR helmet and no VR gloves on him, but AliceX paid his gesture no mind – maybe she took it for some emotional macro he used. Zack demonstrates his spineless attitude, something like that. This girl seemed to be as cruel as they come.

“Look, I realized recently this game is more than life,” Zack told her. “It’s a caricature of life. But maybe there’s a deeper meaning to all this! What if our paths crossed here for a reason? What if I AM your prince in this reality, someone you was meant to save, and care about, and…”

“Hey,” AliceX said, splashing on through the darkness in front of him. “Hey. I like this game for the stories it tells, yes. I enjoy the narrative component very much. I try to look for fun and meaningful stuff in this game.”

“Why do I hear it like it’s not related to me?” Zack asked.

“Because you’re a loser drowning in self-pity,” AliceX said. “I’m curious about your story though. It sounds promising to me, in a way.

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