Demon Lord for Hire: A Progression Fantasy Epic by E.M. Hardy & LitRPG Freaks

Author:E.M. Hardy & LitRPG Freaks [Hardy, E.M.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2022-05-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

He’d never been a martial god, not even remotely. He could ascertain the worth of a fine blade right down to the smallest copper, but he’d never granted prowess in battle, or skill with a weapon. Still, he had to do something; he couldn’t just sit back and watch, not this time.

If the demons sensed his power moving, he just hoped that they’d assume it was one of the champions’ patrons coming to their aid.

Van gathered up his strength, all his carefully horded divinity. All of his skills, all of his hard-won power, was based around his former Godly portfolio. He couldn’t grant them strength of arms, but there had to be something he could do.

He pawed through his skills, franticly searching for anything that might be useful. Josue was keeping the enemy back for the moment, but his arms were shaking, and he kept glancing over his shoulder at where Kirsten was working over an unmoving Zaire. He couldn’t hold for much longer.

Fury and frustration crackled through Van as he wracked his mind, trying to come up with some angle, some miracle that would see three young heroes returning home in glory, not sent back to their churches wrapped in a shroud, assuming the demons left enough behind to bury. There was no time to strike a deal, no way to sign a contract, if they’d even listen to him to try.

He stumbled over one thought, hesitating. It was foolish. Almost as mad as the humans themselves. It was a skill he’d never used often, and never in a martial sense. He wasn’t sure it would even work, but Van couldn’t think of what else to try.

When it came to commerce and business, it was an accepted truth that the whole of an object could be greater than the sum of its parts. One potter’s shop wasn’t much, but enough of them could form a Guild and wield some considerable power. A worm casing was a worthless thing, but the fibers of some could be spun into silk, and people would spend substantial gold to drape themselves in it.

The same could be said for people. Kirsten herself had put it best. “We’re stronger together.”

Van didn’t let himself pause to think. He just poured a reckless amount of divinity into his [Merger] skill, and hoped it worked for warriors as it did for craftsmen.

His divinity flowed between them, bridging their powers, building them up to be more than what they could be alone. Van sank into it, fighting to keep the careful balance between not only the three champions, but the three very different flavors of God magic that burned inside them. He struggled, feeling himself caught between the fire of a sun, and the ice of the darkness between worlds. Aesis’s power was the easiest, weaving itself around Van, patching up the holes where the others grew thin or clashed. If one of the parties involved hadn’t been blessed by a God of Balance, he wasn’t sure he could have pulled it off at all.

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