Lord of the Flame: A LitRPG novel (Call of Carrethen Book 2) by Stephen Roark

Author:Stephen Roark [Roark, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

42

The City of Jahannan

Ahead of us, hanging above the Wastes at the top of a sheer rock face, was an enormous city, so complex in its structure that it took me a minute to take it all in.

Enormous towers dominated its architecture, with flying buttresses and bridges from building to building high up in the air. Smaller structures filled in the gaps, with chipped and shattered stone shingles clinging desperately onto their sloped roofs. As I stared, a thick sheet sloughed off one of them and spilled off the edge of the cliff into the wastes below.

A group of enormous bat-like creatures circled the highest tower like a team of aerial guards, and I could see movement in the shadows of the city, but it was impossible to make out what they were. The city itself was grey with undertones of shadowy blue, and from seemingly nowhere, a silver grey light raked across the buildings, giving the whole place an eerie glow.

“Wow,” I said simply. I was stunned. There was so much going on with the city that it was almost impossible to take it all in. Unlike other areas in Carrethen I’d seen, it was infinitely more complex. “How did I never know about this place before?”

“Honestly, I don’t think it was in Call of Carrethen,” Kodiak told me.

I turned to him. “Say what?”

“Seriously,” he replied. “I never saw it during retail, and never heard anyone talk about it either.”

“So you’re saying that this is unique to the Dark World?”

“Would that really surprise you?” He shrugged. “This whole place is screwy. Wouldn’t surprise me if Wintermute’s backup somehow unlocked some old parts of the game that never made it into retail, or some stuff that was going to be released in future patches.”

“Expansions maybe,” Sabotenda suggested. “DLC.”

I sighed heavily as I looked up at the fortress as it stood high above us, dominating the sky. It definitely looked amazing, and normally I’d have been down to explore every inch of the place and discover all of its secrets, but for now, all it was was another obstacle in my journey back to Jack.

“So, how do we get up?” I asked.

“There’s these sketchy elevators at the base of the cliff,” Kodiak said. “Like those huge ones in the Barrens. Ever play World of Warcraft?”

“Well, yeah,” I chuckled. “It’s a classic.”

We started off towards the cliff, doing our best to avoid any more groups of Old Men of the Wastes or Prowlers, but of course had to deal with a few more fights before we approached the wall. Sabotenda was closing in on 80, and Kodiak was pretty far through 83.

I still had a long way to go until 128. I couldn’t help but think that if I was ever going to progress into the 200s, I was going to have to go do some leveling on my own. But that could wait. For now, we had a single objective: find Vayde, and that meant getting through Jahannan in one piece.

Sabotenda

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