The Daily Grind: A Slice-Of-Life LitRPG by Argus

Author:Argus [Argus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9781039426870
Amazon: B0C1DMBNRD
Goodreads: 125185004
Publisher: Podium Publishing
Published: 2023-05-02T07:00:00+00:00

“I feel like an idiot,” James remarked as they were two turns into the maze. He was taking point, with Ganesh staying low on Anesh’s shoulder for now. This part of the office was fairly open, and he could pretty easily poke his head over a wall if needed; no need to advertise their presence by launching a drone up where everyone could see.

Anesh stalked along behind him, casually checking cubicles as the pair moved at a much faster pace than they had before. Neither of them had his weapons out yet, both having realized how fast their grip got tired and their palms got sweaty. “Why, aside from the normal reasons?”

This got a huffing chuckle from James. “I feel like you’re abusing the banter license I gave you. But no, it’s the stupid armor.” He kept twitching his shoulders, trying to get the football padding to settle into a more comfortable position.

“Is it perhaps the giant hole in the back of the armor?” Anesh asked wryly, scanning a cube to their left for anything hostile. It was empty, but there was a suspiciously fresh-looking desk lamp in there, despite this being a cube they’d looted before.

“Exactly!” James said, trying to scratch at his back. “The edges melted weird, and it’s poking me, and I hate it. I think I’m just gonna dump it here and go without today. We’re not doing anything that should require it, right?”

“That’s the logic that gets people who don’t wear seat belts killed, James,” Anesh said simply as he moved to take the lead. “Keep your stupid armor on. We’ll get new stuff next week.”

James simply grumbled as they kept moving, leaving the armor on. He wasn’t happy about it, though; he didn’t like feeling like there was anything motivating him to finish early here, in this place that gave his life so much spice.

They picked up the first two cameras fairly easily and had just gotten to the third when James noticed something. “Hey, this one still has its light on.” Anesh looked over from his watch position. “Yeah,” James said, “this one isn’t dead. The battery is still good. Hang on.” He fumbled in his pocket for a second before pulling out his phone, his actual phone, not an iLipede, and opening up the camera app. “Check it out.” He flashed the screen over at Anesh.

“No way,” Anesh replied in disbelief.

On the phone screen was a clear image of the two of them, along with the available controls for the wireless camera, and a battery bar that read 2%. “What the hell? I mean, these things have batteries that are supposed to last for a month or something, but isn’t the time dilation too extreme here? Did we ever sort that out?” James asked.

Anesh grabbed his arm and pulled him back a step. “It could be alive now,” he muttered. “But yeah, we did the math based on the clocks. Three minutes out, eight hours in. One week out, three years in. This thing shouldn’t be functioning, unless we were wrong.

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