Wolf in the Void, The Grand Game, Book 5: A Dark Fantasy LitRPG Adventure by Tom Elliot

Author:Tom Elliot [Elliot, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blooming Bull
Published: 2023-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

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Eight hostile entities have failed to detect you!

It didn’t take the possessed long to emerge from the corridor. They didn’t immediately spread out, though.

“Where is he?” one asked in a hushed tone.

Avery rolled his eyes. “Hiding, obviously,” he said, not bothering to lower his voice. The possessed leader scanned the room in predatory fashion, the tip of his staff glowing and ready to unleash whatever magics he had prepared.

He would have to die first, I decided, and measured the distance to the mage. If I threw myself to the left, I would land directly atop him.

“Rice, Lake, check the right side of the room,” Avery ordered. “Johir, Sylver, start at the chests on the left and work your way to the windows. Gordon and Mikane, look beneath those tables. Haril, you stay here with me.”

Eight hostile entities have failed to detect you!

I delayed my assault as the possessed dispersed to do Avery’s bidding. So far, none of the mages had so much as glanced upwards, and I judged I would go undetected for a while still—leaving me with a few more precious seconds to time everything perfectly.

While I waited, I scrutinized my targets and prioritized threats. Thankfully, analyze required no energy and still functioned despite me being quad chained.

“Are we sure he is even here?” Haril asked. He was the lowest leveled of the possessed, and the most nervous.

“Where else would he be?” Avery snapped irritably.

Haril licked his lips. “Maybe he’s—”

I stopped listening. The possessed had spread out enough. It was time. Slipping my left hand free of the clawed glove, I pushed off the wall with my legs and launched myself at Avery.

Mid-air, I drew faithful.

At the last second, the possessed leader sensed something amiss and spun around to look up. Barely a few feet separated us, though, and I bowled into him feet first before he could bring his staff up.

Your target’s shield has blocked your attacks, absorbing its damage.

I struck Avery’s defenses and not the man himself, of course. Still, the momentum of my assault sufficed to knock the possessed off his feet and send his weapon flying.

Behind me, Haril yelped.

Ignoring him, I leaped forward and onto the downed mage’s shield bubble. The spelled surface was slippery, and its curvature made sitting awkward, but I was agile enough to not only maintain my perch, but to strike down at my shocked foe with both my blades.

Your target’s shield has blocked your attacks.

Haril lowered his staff to point at me. The other possessed were also turning in my direction. Very soon, an avalanche of magic would be descending on me.

I had no choice, though, but to ignore the danger. Now that I had sprung my ambush, I had to finish off my prey. Leaving him alive would be to court even greater danger.

My swords a blur, I struck down repeatedly, each attack ricocheting sharply off Avery’s defenses.

Your target’s shield has blocked your attacks.

Your target’s shield has blocked your attacks.

…

…

Avery raised his hands, magic boiling to life in his palms, but the possessed leader was already too late.

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