Death Ship 2: Double Kill by Michael-Scott Earle

Author:Michael-Scott Earle [Earle, Michael-Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MSE Publishing, LLC.
Published: 2018-04-28T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

My soul counter spiraled up to one hundred and fifty before exploding in a burst of green sparks that shot across the blackness behind my eyes. What the hell had I just dumped down my throat?

Souls. The unfettered souls I had sensed. So many souls.

I couldn’t move, I couldn’t see, I couldn’t even breathe. But I felt every inch of my body. My muscles were filled to bursting with an unearthly vitality, and my blood vessels strained to contain the sudden flood of new strength that pumped through them. I was more alive than I’d ever been, but I’d never felt closer to death.

You’re panicking. Calm yourself. This will all be over soon. Your armor is adapting its storage to accommodate the sudden influx of souls into your system. It was not designed for such an extreme burst of energy.

Awesome. My fancy soul-eating armor wasn’t up to the task of drinking the souls of the Baburuku. I’d come all this way, killed a god, and convinced the pack of giant baboons to help us in our battle against the Dominion, but it was all going to shit because I had a few sips of bad punch from the big baboon’s spooky magic ring.

Bit by bit, the darkness faded to be replaced by a foggy dreamscape. I recognized the jungles of Koroshi as my dream-self soared above them and raced toward the crumbling mountain home of the Baburuku. A massive vessel made of writhing cables floated above its peak, connected to it by thick metal umbilicals that pumped and throbbed.

Size isn’t a measure of power, you know.

“You can see this?” I asked, unnerved by the idea that Seymour was able to peek into my dreams whenever he felt like it.

This is no dream, Avatar. Whatever created this place left this as a message for us.

Seymour hadn’t always shot straight with me, and he was more than a little self-serving when it came to doling out the truth about his past, but the thread of fear wound through his words was real. There was something sinister about this place, something vile.

Unfortunately, neither of us had much choice in the matter. All we could do was watch as the vision unspooled out in front of us.

I watched as great cracks formed in the earth around the mountain. They streaked past me like black serpents and carved deep channels in the ground as they shot away. I peered over the jagged lip of a narrow chasm as it passed near my right foot and saw the boiling light of red-hot magma far below the surface.

“All things end,” a hollow, cold voice whispered in my ear. I wanted to turn to face whoever it was, but I was frozen in place. “My arrival marked the beginning of the cycle of Koroshi, your arrival marks its end. When the time comes, trust in the Baburuku. They owe me a great debt, and they will not fail to pay it.”

As the speaker’s last word faded from my hearing, the world disintegrated around me.

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