Valhalla Online by Kevin McLaughlin

Author:Kevin McLaughlin [McLaughlin, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Role of the Hero Publishing
Published: 2019-01-10T07:00:00+00:00

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Sam had never seen anything like this, not outside of a movie. Even more than the scaled creatures upstairs, this thing stirred feelings of dread in her heart. It stepped toward her, each footfall silent except for the subtle swish of cloth against cloth. Sam stepped back from it involuntarily, stumbling against the cool stone wall behind her. It’s just a game, she reminded herself. This was just a creature dreamed up from the imagination of some geek and rendered in 3D for the amusement of the people playing. Nothing more.

She believed what she was saying. Mostly, anyway.

“Young wizard, your powers are weak,” it said with a voice that sounded like something crawling from a grave. “That which you have stolen is not free. You must pay the price.”

“I didn’t mean to steal from you,” Sam said. “If you’ll help me get out of here, I can get you coin.” She still had a small supply of money stowed away in the game bank. But somehow Sam had the feeling a cash payment wasn’t what this monster had in mind. She kept her spell ready to fire.

“The payment will be your life!” It began tracing lines in the air with bony fingers. Sam could feel magical energy building up as it worked. She wasn’t going to sit around and wait for it to attack. It was time to put her spell to the test. She concentrated, calling up her own magic. Her fire bolt launched forward and struck the thing squarely in the chest. Sparks burst around the thing, singing its robes, and It staggered back. Heartened by the success, Sam fired another magical bolt at the thing.

This time her magic stopped in the air about a foot in front of the monster. It struck some sort of purple barrier floating in the air in front of the skeletal sorcerer, detonating there harmlessly.

“I told you that your powers were feeble, and useless against me,” it said. “You are far too much the novice. You should never have come here.”

“I didn’t want to come here!” Sam shouted back.

The skeletal figure didn’t seem to care. It fired a blast of force toward Sam. She dove sideways, feeling the icy burst spatter against the wall where she’d just been standing. If she’d been a second slower it would have caught her! The wall took the brunt of the magic instead. Icy tendrils ran up and down the stone surface, delving in, cracking the rock. Sam shuddered to think what it would have done to her.

She fired her bolt again, with the same result. The flame never reached her target at all, exploding in the air in front of it instead. It cackled at her and readied more magic of its own again.

But had the shield seemed just a little less bright? Was it moving just a little faster in its spell casting, trying to rush through the work to blast her again? Maybe she could get through the shield if she just hammered it enough times.

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