Titan Blood: A LitRPG Progression Fantasy (Victor of Tucson Book 4) by Plum Parrot

Author:Plum Parrot [Parrot, Plum]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Podium Publishing
Published: 2024-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

23

REAPING THE REWARDS

Victor followed Tes’s gaze to the giant arachnid corpse near the center of the gully and started kicking his way through the corpses toward it. Sure enough, as he walked around the lifeless body, its legs hanging in the air, curled inward, he saw a long, dark haft sticking out of the creature’s head. He recognized it as Lifedrinker’s living wood handle. Still, it was different—longer, broader, and the tiny twinkling motes of light that usually lay deep within the grain, only visible in the right light, were decidedly more pronounced.

“Que bonita!” he whispered through teeth clenched in nervous anticipation. He shoved the bloody, broken legs aside and reached out to grasp her haft, and a jolt of Energy hit him when his fingers wrapped around the wood. It felt familiar and different at the same time, and his grin widened as the axe seemed to sink into his grip eagerly, humming and vibrating ever so slightly. “I can hear them growing close; come with me to stand near Victor, Valla.

I’ll need to calm Cayle’s anger.” Victor heard Tes speaking, but he couldn’t concentrate on her; he had eyes only for Lifedrinker as he pulled her thick, long handle sideways, cracking the spider’s carapace and freeing her head. He lifted her clear of the fuzzy, monstrous arachnid and held her up in the bright sunlight.

“Holy shit,” he said, and he heard Valla’s intake of breath, echoing the sentiment. Lifedrinker’s Heart Silver core had spread through the black metal, nearly obscuring it to the point where only thin streaks of black lingered in the brilliant, much larger, silvery axe-head. Her blade had grown significantly, and the heavy, thick spike at the back looked ready to punch through four inches of solid steel without a problem, so wickedly did it glint in the light.

If he gripped her past the halfway point on her handle, he could still swing the axe one-handed, but she was definitely bigger and meant to be used with both hands now—at least while he wasn’t the size of a Quinametzin. “I’m going to need a better way to carry her …” he started to say, but then a crystal-clear, feminine voice, high, sharp, and fierce, entered his mind.

“Victor, my love, do I please you?”

“Fuck yes, you do, Lifedrinker!”

“All I ever wanted, all I ever want, is to help you crush your foes. Didn’t we have such fun with these many-legged weaklings? Victor, when will you make yourself large again? When can we lay waste to more of your enemies?”

“Ha!” Victor couldn’t help the laugh and the huge smile that had spread on his face. “Soon, beautiful, soon. We’re on a hunt now; there should be more for us to fight.”

“She speaks to you?” Tes asked, walking closer, Valla close beside her.

“Yes, more than ever. She’s hungry for more battle.”

“Talk to your flesh-mates. I’ll be close when you need me.”

“Thank you, Lifedrinker,” Victor said, resting her haft on his shoulder, the massive, silvery axe gleaming in the sunlight next to his head.

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