Valhalla Virus by Nick Harrow

Author:Nick Harrow [Harrow, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: MMO litRPG role playing steampunk quest gamelit, action hero gritty metaphysical harem dungeon core, coming of age sword sorcery dungeon core demon, men&#8217, s adventure video game adaptations wizard, supernatural fantasy magic occult legends thriller
Publisher: Black Forge Books
Published: 2020-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

IT TOOK THEM AN HOUR to make their way to the top of the hotel after they’d crossed the lobby. The casino’s slot machines had changed into strange altars strewn with wooden tokens painted gold. The elevators were crypts stuffed with the dead. Seeing those corpses, dressed in modern clothing, their faces twisted into masks of horror or rage, crammed into those twisted cells left Gunnar dizzy and out of sorts for minutes after. What worried him wasn’t the changes he saw. What tugged at his nerves was the certainty that he remembered all of this.

And he had no idea how he could remember things he’d never seen before.

The völva were quiet as they climbed one flight of stairs after another. Bodies—mostly humans, though a few jötnar, too—gathered flies on several landings. Gunnar hated the carnage, and his rage built with every floor he ascended. Mimi was right. The jötnar had to die. All of them. From the lowliest footsoldier up to Hyrrokkin.

The group finally navigated their way to the penthouse villas perched on the casino’s roof. While much of the building had changed and warped, the upper floors seemed mostly untouched by the transformation.

Fortunately, the finest of MGM’s rooms weren’t occupied when all the badness went down. They looked exactly as they had when the maids had last cleaned them. Crisp white sheets covered firm mattresses, bowls of mostly fresh fruit waited on counters. They even had power in the villa Gunnar chose, which made the bodyguard wonder if there were generators somewhere nearby, still churning away to provide electricity for guests who would never come.

“I hope they have hot water,” Mimi said. “And one of those fancy cloud showers with mood lighting and aromatherapy. I need to get the stink of that stairwell out of my nose.”

“Let’s find out,” Bridget said. The völva oohed and aahed over the fancy furniture and kicked off their shoes to walk barefoot on the opulent carpet.

Gunnar headed for the glass doors across the living room from the rest of the villa. There was a patio out there, complete with a fire pit, some small trees for privacy, and a powerful telescope for looking down on the little people. It took him a few minutes to get the telescope lined up properly, but once he did Gunnar enjoyed a perfect view of the Luxor’s main entrance.

And all the jötnar cavorting there.

Not even the telescope allowed Gunnar to count the number of blue-skinned freaks on the steps leading into the casino. It had to be close to a hundred, with no telling how many more were inside.

He and the völva would have to be very stealthy, very lucky, and very well-armed to have any chance of pulling this mission off. Gunnar watched his enemies, the rage growing with every passing minute. He searched for entrances that would let them slip past the monsters until his eye ached from the strain. He hadn’t found anything when Ray called to him from the doorway.

“Hey,” she said.

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