Throne of the Ancients_A LitRPG Adventure by Carrie Summers

Author:Carrie Summers [Summers, Carrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lonely Crag Press
Published: 2019-08-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

“WELL SHIT,” SOME guy behind Ashley said as the first ranks of the marching army reached yet another sheer drop where the Skargill Mountains fell away into a chasm that might as well have been bottomless. The speaker had kind of an annoying voice—nasal and somehow conniving. She could forgive or ignore the way people sounded in real life, but this guy must have gone through the same character creation system as everyone else, which meant he’d chosen something obnoxious on purpose.

Par for the course when grouping up with the kind of people who wanted to be in Nil’s guild. Or rather, the kind of people that wanted to stay in Nil’s guild. Even the name was dumb. Blood-soaked Blades, BBs to people who were too embarrassed to say the name aloud. If anyone who knew her from other games heard about the outfit she’d joined up with for Relic Online, they’d probably laugh their asses off. Her explanation that it had been the only PvP guild with any power early on wouldn’t matter. Of course, it was still the only guild with power because of the whole momentum thing. Anyone who wasn’t an actual asshole but who still liked to PvP was stuck joining the BBs if they wanted a chance at taking down worthy objectives.

Anyway, the situation wasn’t permanent. She’d approached a couple more players lately, people she’d been grouped with who’d kinda made it known that they didn’t agree with Nil’s plan to go after the Stonehaven people again. Especially not the way Nil wanted to do it, where they’d start by taking out the NPC defenders and whatever fortifications were present, and they’d end by killing the players slowly and repeatedly. Nil was seriously obsessed with this vendetta thing, and it kinda turned Ashley’s stomach. Seemed she wasn’t the only one, and these other two players, a level twenty-seven Conjurer and a level twenty-five Knight had pretty much agreed to split off when Ashley founded a new guild.

But it was slow going recruiting people only when she’d grouped with them long enough to get a feel for their opinions on Nil. Not just a feel for them, actually. She needed to know their discomfort with the guild leader was strong enough that they wouldn’t decide to tattle on her.

Ashley had no illusions about what it would be like when she betrayed Nil. In game, there would be wars between Nil’s people and her new guild. Out of game, the harassment tactics that the BBs had been using on that livestreamer, Hailey, would be turned on her instead. Ashley needed powerful allies, characters with the levels and gear and play skill to stand against Nil. And she needed guild members who knew how to deal with doxers and hackers, ideally on defense only, but on offense if things got bad.

So, for now, she had to keep her head down and do her best to make sure she stood out as an indispensable part of Nil’s army.

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