Lichbane: A Deckbuilding LitRPG by Tracy Gregory

Lichbane: A Deckbuilding LitRPG by Tracy Gregory

Author:Tracy Gregory [Gregory, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-29T22:00:00+00:00


Chapter Seventeen

Magda looked up at Gareth through a shimmering curtain of tears. She didn’t know what to make of what Henig had said, but something deep within her told her that he was telling the truth, at least as the lich understood it. Her tears were a mixture of frustration and rage, she had known the judgments were wrong, the system intrinsically unfair, and perhaps some small part of her remembered how things should have been when she had stepped in to save Gareth. It sickened her, that the other gods were simply playing some twisted game as they harvested the small fragment of divinity that existed within the souls of living things.

“You mean it?” she said, extending a hand so Gareth could help her to her feet.

“I do,” Gareth said taking Magda’s hand. “If it wasn’t for you, I would be one of those things, the nightmares. I thought the afterlife was wrong before, now I’m just angry at the reason why. When it was the way things were, it was just unfair. Now it’s a crime, possibly the worst one I can imagine.”

“You have my aid as well,” Sarkuran said. He stepped forward and put a hand on Magda’s shoulder, an unusually tender gesture from him. “I was sent here to fight against what I was told was the tyranny of the gods. Now I know it was those same gods who had issued me that decree to foster conflict. It’s no wonder nightmares gnaw at the edge of our reality as they do. I imagine they must fester with untold anger. We’ve assumed since our meeting that we were on opposite sides, and now we discover that there are no sides. I for one, do not like being made a fool of.”

“So, what do we do now?” Imelda said. “I don’t know anything about gods, or the afterlife, but I’ve thrown my lot in with you folks, so I’m along for the ride.”

“Nothing changes for us,” Gareth said. “We get more levels, more cards, we grow stronger. If we’re going to take on the gods, at some point, we’re going to need all the power we can muster.”

“If I may interject,” Henig said. “This temple is a locus of mana, built upon the convergence of several powerful leylines. I’m sure you’ve surmised that it's surrounded by more of the teleportation platforms that you arrived here on. From here you can travel all across Acamida. If you were looking to grow your power, there can be no finer base from which to do so. That is, after all, my purpose, to keep this place safe until Magdalena could return and reclaim it.”

“Wait, so the tower is ours now?”

“Well, technically one trial remains. I might have jumped ahead a little in my excitement. You must defeat me in order to prove yourselves.”

“Like, in a duel?” Gareth said. He knew that the elementals defending the structure had to have come from somewhere. It only made sense that Henig would be a duellist.



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