Vault of the Magi by Carrie Summers

Author:Carrie Summers [Summers, Carrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lonely Crag Press
Published: 2019-03-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

REMEMBERING WHAT FOOLS the other newbies had looked like stumbling around the training grounds, Emerson tried to plant his—unfortunately still bare—feet with purpose as he stalked out the gates of Stonehaven and into the slaughtering fields behind. The fortifications guy, Jarleck, cast him a glance as he passed, and perhaps what might be described as a faint look of respect. Or confusion. Or pity. Honestly, the guy’s face was pretty damn stony, and Emerson had never been good at reading expressions anyway.

Die.

Honestly, the quest objective seemed a little…odd. Having watched a couple of documentaries on real-life combat training, he could kind of see how learning about in-game death could teach someone what to expect, maybe keep people from freezing up at the wrong moment. The objective seemed similar to simulations of fog of war and other intense experiences that would come up in a real life-or-death situation. At the same time, even he’d seen enough game footage and chatter to know that death was commonplace. If it was going to happen sooner or later, why force him to undergo the experience now?

At the very least, it hardly seemed a quest that ought to be handed out to someone that the trainer “had a gut feeling about.” Unless that gut feeling was that Emerson’s only future skill was going to be getting his butt kicked.

Regardless, the five thousand experience on offer would bump him up to level 5, at which point he’d finally be able to choose a class. And then he’d have these rats and beetles cowering in their boots. Er…not that they wore boots. But anyway, back to the mission at hand.

Emerson scanned the field in front of the settlement. Unlike his last venture out the gates, there were now at least two-dozen level one and two players striking at foes in the grass. If what they were doing could be called anything so flattering as striking. Mostly, they were swinging swords and clubs in the general direction of the vermin, most of whom were wandering along random vectors, oblivious to the weapons that were thudding into the ground on either side of their paths.

Emerson shook his head, suddenly as perplexed as the GMs had been about Veia’s decision to move the Eltera City starting content here. If Devon were to be believed—and he pretty much believed everything she said ever—the coming demon army would be the biggest challenge Stonehaven had ever faced. These people were a liability, nothing more.

Gritting his teeth, he fought the urge to march back into the settlement and give the trainers a lecture. If this was the kind of soldier they were going to turn out, they might as well open the gates and welcome the demons into the inner keep. But seeing as Aravon was…16 levels higher than him and at least six inches taller, Emerson didn’t think that would further his cause much. Watching a particularly inept young woman—who had, for some incomprehensible reason, decided to name her character WizKitten—aim a

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