Apocalypse Knights 4: A LitRPG Adventure by DB King

Author:DB King [King, DB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

“It’s called an Atmos Siphon,” Sylan explained. “It creates a slight vortex that imposes a weak pull on all forms of cosmic energy within fifty feet. Given the unstable and volatile nature of the conjoined Harbingers, if they come within the vicinity of an Atmos Siphon’s effects and remain there for roughly three to four minutes, the cosmic energy within their flesh will go awry and their bodies will start falling apart.”

“Three to four minutes at a range of fifty feet…” Max mused, rubbing his jaw. “For a Level 50 enchanted item, it’s not a very powerful one.”

“It can’t be, or any Cosmic Challengers… Knights-Errant will be affected as well and be unable to cast spells or use any of their enchanted items,” Sylan said. She pulled out a scroll from her Ring of Holding, unfurled it upon a table nearby, and beckoned Max over to look at it. “I’d originally designed the Atmos Siphon as a projectile weapon used to incapacitate the monsters, Crucible Agents, and Cosmic Challengers my betrayer sent after me. For your purposes, I will have to impose many limitations and inefficiencies on it to dampen its effects.”

“Why can’t we just use the original design and throw it at the Harbingers?” Nesura asked from her perch atop her cushion. “Wouldn’t that be simpler?”

“In its unmodified form, the Atmos Siphon’s effects will linger for years within a radius of five hundred miles,” Sylan said, shaking her head. “It will completely destroy the extra-dimensional space of the Errantry Mansion and cast everyone within it to random locations in this world… or beyond.”

Max walked over to the table and studied the scroll’s contents. Sure enough, he could see that there was a complex diagram of some mechanical, sphere-like device drawn in painstaking detail over its surface, but he didn’t understand any of the words. He sighed and shook his head. “I can’t read any of this.”

“Of course you can’t,” Sylan hissed impatiently. “The annotations and notes are written in a language unknown upon this world!”

“Speaking of languages, how come you can speak ours so fluently?” Max asked. He jerked a thumb in Nesura’s direction. “When I first met her, she was a monster, so I presumed the Crucible translated whatever she was saying to me at the time. When she became my familiar, she must have picked up my language through our mental link. But you’re not a Knight-Errant, not really anyway, and you don’t belong to this world.”

“I can instantly learn any language in its entirety just by hearing a native speaker utter a single word of it,” Sylan said proudly. “That is just one of the less significant gifts I enjoy as a higher, more evolved being than you mortals.”

“Alright, higher being,” Max said, sharing a mocking chuckle with Nesura and several of the gathered Artificers. “If you’re so gifted, then how come you need help from my Apocalypse Knights to build you this trinket? You’re much closer to Level 50 than they are, and Nesura

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