Apocalypse Online #2 by Conor Malachi

Author:Conor Malachi [Malachi, Conor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Keep Evolving Studios
Published: 2024-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twenty-Two

SAM

“Everything hurts,” Sam grumbled as she stepped into the Gaming Center’s cafeteria with her party. She found a couch tucked away in a corner and made sure she flopped down on it.

Rocky hopped onto her stomach and lay down with an exhausted little sigh.

Aron pulled up a chair and leaned his chest against the backrest. “You can say that again. It took Brad, Randy, and Tim all working together to get us patched up, and most of us were still under half health.”

Chet and the rest of the party sat down.

“I’m pretty sure Sam actually blacked out for a second there,” Chet said.

Randy nodded. “She took a pretty nasty blow to the head the last time she got knocked free by that mutant.”

“Wha—?” Sam felt around her head. There was a nasty bruise on the side of her skull she didn’t remember getting. She thought back on the fight. One second she was flying through the air, then nothing before she was back at it. “Guess you’re right.”

Randy smiled at her. “Don’t worry. In another hour I’ll have enough mana to heal you back to full.”

“Good to hear.” Sam smiled, running a hand through Rocky’s fur.

Jo waved a hand at Sam. “Uhm, Sammy, I’ve got a golden blinky thing on my HUD and I don’t know what it is.”

Sam’s first reaction was to tell Jo to ask her muse about it; she just wanted to rest, after all. Then she noticed she too had a golden blinky thing on her HUD. It was under notifications.

Open it, dear, Olivia said with poorly contained excitement in her voice.

With a thought, Sam commanded the notification to open.

A brilliant flash of gold flashed across her vision, sheathed in aetheric energy.

World first!

Your raid has successfully defeated a deadly alpha mutant.

Please choose your reward:

Flicker Strike — Teleport to a chosen target and strike. If no target is selected, a nearby hostile creature will be chosen at random.

Shadow Step — Teleport from one shadowed area to another.

Corpse Explosion — Detonate nearby corpses, dealing explosive damage.

Sam blinked in surprise. All of those sounded like amazingly useful abilities to have in a fight. Even the corpse explosion skill, messy as it sounded, could help them clear an area of seeders.

“Guys, we just achieved a world first,” she said. “Check your HUD for that golden flashy bit.”

Jo gasped. “I can choose a new boom magic?”

“Huh.” Aron stroked his chin. “Seems this system has abilities for us magically challenged types, too. I always hated that about RPGs. They always give the martial classes the short end of the stick.”

Chet was salivating as he stared off into a wall. “I’m going to have fun with this. Oh yes.”

“Huh, seems the abilities are themed to that mutant wolf thing we killed,” Randy said. “These new spells or abilities or whatever all sound like something that thing could have done, but didn’t get a chance to.”

Aron shook his head. “It definitely did some of those things. One of my abilities lets me send out shockwaves through the ground like it did, or launch out spikes.

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