Chronicles of Ethan Complete Series: A LitRPG GameLit Fantasy Adventure by John L. Monk

Author:John L. Monk [Monk, John L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mountaindale Press
Published: 2020-05-07T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Four

Months earlier, shortly before reaching the Swaze Pit and its doomed goblins and woggims, Rita, me, and a priest named Frank encountered a troop of bugbears in a forest. While Frank and I went running, Rita—with her much higher strength and agility—had taken our pursuers for a chase. Very nearly, she’d gotten caught. Then, just when it looked like she’d be skewered on the spears of the growling, brutish creatures, a purple mist rolled in and sent them fleeing in panic.

“You said the mist was bad,” I said.

“It is bad,” Jaddow said. “Very bad. Quite possibly the worst thing in all of Mythian, if you’re a male. Or so it’s said. I’ve never actually seen it, and I never stray whenever I’m in that forest. The purple mist is your first and only warning. You see it, you run.”

Rita snorted. “Why only men? Seems sort of sexist.”

“Myrialla is a dryad,” he said. “She appeals to men in a way no real woman ever could. All men, of all sexualities. She’s the key to our lock, as it were. Once she has you, there’s no escaping.”

That seemed strange. “She has a dungeon?”

“You are the dungeon,” he said. “She is the key. And she can turn that key any which way she chooses. Adventuring males who go there looking for millions of points are never heard from again. Women can’t find her, of course. All they see is the mist, like Rita.”

“But they can just give up!” Rita said. “We all can … I mean, if we’re not Hard Mode we can.”

Jaddow nodded. “That’s true. Which makes the dryad that much scarier given that they never do. Doesn’t it?”

He sipped his drink while we watched him. Rita looked like she wanted to argue.

“So that’s why you asked if I loved my wife,” I said. “Because if I loved her too much I’d go for the dryad. Well, I do love her too much, dammit. I—”

Jaddow said, “No need to decide now. You might feel differently in the morning.” He smiled. “That’s right, we’re staying here tonight. My Gate spell can only be used three times a day and is now on cooldown. Some things never change, no matter what level you are. In the meantime, I’ve secured rooms for us to sleep in.” He placed two keys on the table and stood up. There were numbers stamped into the flat side of each key. “It’s been a long day, and I still have some reading to do.”

Without waiting for a reply, he turned and headed for the stairs.

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