Hell to Pay (Ascend Online Book 2) by Luke Chmilenko

Author:Luke Chmilenko [Chmilenko, Luke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ætherworld Productions
Published: 2017-04-30T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

I awoke on my back to a gentle shaking motion after what seemed like hours later, the raw smell of the sewer filtering into my lungs slowly telling my brain that I was still inside the massive sewer hub, having somehow survived the Gnasher’s death. Opening my eyes slowly, I found myself staring up into Molly’s concerned face as she knelt over me.

“Hey,” I said weakly. “Did we win?”

“Gavin,” Molly breathed, using my real name as she broke into a wide smile as I opened my eyes, shaking her head incredulously. “What did you do? We all saw you dive right into the Gnasher’s mouth…”

“Nothing we were doing was hurting it,” I replied slowly as I motioned Molly to help me sit up. “Not until Quinn pointed out that its mouth was its only weak spot. I figured I could do more damage from the inside. Thankfully I gained a level when I killed it and I healed…”

“I thought—we all thought that you died!” Molly scolded me with a harsh expression on her face as she helped pull me up, but after a moment of staring into my eyes, she relented. “But I don’t have any better ideas on what we could have done. We were slowly being picked off one by one…”

Molly paused as she nodded her head towards the rest of the platform around me, giving me a chance to witness the damage that the Gnasher had caused.

The once immaculate metal platform was now badly deformed, the creature’s tentacles having left massive dents in it from its repeated impacts, as well as countless scars from its burning spit. Blinking through my tired eyes, I couldn’t help but make out the remains the other Thief Lords’ retainers, some having been crushed to a pulp, others partially consumed by fire.

“We don’t think Kiera made it,” Molly continued, my eyes landing on the two remaining Smiling Jades standing at the far edge of the platform with a pair of surviving Crimson Rats as they looked out into the basin below us. “She never came up from the water after falling in.”

“The basin is full of Otyugh,” I said, remembering my harrowing experience when I had fallen in. “I barely made it out myself. If she fell in first and attracted the majority of them…”

I felt a shiver cross my spine as I remembered the Otyugh that had pulled me under after I had fallen into the water. If I had had to deal with more than one, I had no idea what I would have done.

Probably drowned, I told myself morbidly.

“Did you hear everything that Dorian said?” Molly whispered to me in disbelief. “He knew he was in trouble the moment we stepped in here.”

“Yet he had enough time to prepare for…whatever he did to the Gnasher, even if the transformation didn’t completely affect it,” I replied as Stroud, Isabella, and Quinn walked back up the far end of the platform, their eyes focusing on Molly and me.

With a sense

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