Leveling Up The World 7: A LitRPG Adventure by L. Eclaire

Author:L. Eclaire [Eclaire, L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2024-04-24T00:00:00+00:00

BENEATH THE SOUTHERN RUINS

Ican’t sense him, Gleam said, fluttering close to the crack in the ceiling. Doesn’t mean he’s not there.

“He’s there.” Dallion lay on the floor, the bladebow on his left leg surrounded in blue flames. “He’s just waiting.”

Several hours had passed since the encounter, although given the results describing it as a disaster would be more accurate. The shardfly felt stronger than anything he had faced, save for the dragon. It had focused solely on him, ignoring Ruby and Gleam, as if they weren’t there. The only reason Dallion had survived at all is thanks to his sword’s indestructible nature. Without that, Dallion wouldn’t have had the opportunity to run away.

Feeling better, Boss? Lux asked.

Dallion couldn’t say that he did when it came to long-term goals. He might have survived the initial encounter, but it wasn’t looking very likely he’d make it to the aetherbird mountain in six days. In fact, there was no guarantee he’d make it out at all.

That’s why people generally don’t come here, dear boy, Nil sighed in a distinctly told-you-so tone. The creatures that like to hide here are usually strong enough to survive the environment, making them a lot more dangerous than most things you’d come across in the civilized wilderness.

“Shut up.” Dallion closed his eyes.

It was fortunate that the area had some city ruins. Dallion had found them purely by accident, mostly buried beneath the mountains. Whatever catastrophe had happened had covered up this section of the southlands, which was good since it prevented most of the large creatures from making their lairs there, or so it seemed. With no area guardians, Dallion had had to learn the language of the local plants to get an idea of what was going on.

From what he could tell, the ruins were mostly filled with small rodents which avoided anything stronger. The creatures might have presented a challenge the last time he was here, but at his current level, they had quickly scurried away, choosing to ignore a direct confrontation.

Eventually, the pain disappeared. Dallion felt he had enough strength to stand. He had already mended all of his clothes and armor, but it was impossible to remove the bloodstains. Water and food, to a lesser degree, had been of a lesser priority. As a hunter, Dallion could survive about a week without either and had the means to find more in the wilderness. Here, he was the hunted.

Found some water. Ruby flew to Dallion. It’s not far.

“Any creatures up to it?”

Just rats.

You need to move, Vihrogon said. Shardflies get bored quickly, and when they do, they start slicing up buildings.

“Great.” Dallion sighed, then took his harpsisword. It was time to kill some rats.

The light coming from Lux was enough to scare the critters in most cases, but there would be instances in which the creatures would become cornered and left with no option but to try and fight their way out. Dealing with them was elementary. Dallion could have done so without even using combat splitting, but given his permanent injury, he preferred not to take any chances.

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