Visions and Nightmares: An Apocalypse LitRPG (Ruthless Book 3) by D. J. Rintoul

Author:D. J. Rintoul [Rintoul, D. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Podium Publishing
Published: 2025-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

INTERLUDE

The Great White Nowhere

Cara Dahlhaus twisted her cold, hard lips into a vicious smile as she set eyes upon the frosty track.

The bitter winds that beat down on the frozen plains left her gray-blue skin unharmed, but the increasing chill did not go unnoticed. It was one of the signs that Cara was following.

And now she had another.

She bent down to more closely examine the bits of frost sticking out of the ground. Atop the snow-covered ground, sticking up like a ring of stalagmites, a circle of icicles in the shape of a hoof stood out.

Cara rose and cast her eyes forward four feet, eight feet, then ten feet. Sure enough, at ten feet she saw another frosty hoofprint.

This thing was really running, she thought. Moving at high speed.

She imagined it was fleeing from her. The notion was not implausible. She and the Wendigos that followed her had chased this creature across a huge chunk of the landmass that was once Canada. They had only gotten close once, and she had gotten a good look at it then before it dashed off, riding the winds like one of Santa’s pets.

A freakishly gigantic white deer, crowned with a forest of golden antlers.

Identify labeled it as the Great White Hart, level thirty-two, which was worrying. But Malsumis had reassured her. Through his messenger, a rabid bison, the malevolent god had explained that the Great White Hart had abandoned its greatest strengths, its herd and its territory, in order to run from her more quickly.

“Just kill this single creature and you become a Ruler,” the bison had wheezed with Malsumis’s strange, eerie voice. “Easy work. You have killed so many others with far more potent powers. Remember the Shadow Mage?”

It was at least true that the only power Cara had witnessed the creature display proficiently was the ability to run away.

Still, is this really the easiest Ruler for me to kill? Cara did not feel confident that Malsumis was motivated by her best interests. She looked out for herself at all times, but she had felt forced to place her trust in the god’s counsel more than once already. First, when he had persuaded her to become a Wendigo. Second, when he had explained that she would only be able to survive as a monster if she created others of her kind. Third, when he had told her how Wendigos navigated internal conflicts.

Now this. She was stuck in the middle of the Great White Nowhere, following the advice of a possessed bison that had deteriorated over the course of the journey west until it could no longer walk. The dead body of the bison had been ripped to shreds by Cara’s fellow monsters at that point, and the last sound out of its mouth had been Malsumis’s creepy wheezing laughter.

“Well, where to next, eh?”

Cara turned her head, though even before she did, she knew who the speaker was.

“We follow the tracks, Letitia,” she replied, imbuing her voice with a special layer of frost that was reserved for this specific woman.

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