Realm Master 2: The Last Summoner by Dante King

Author:Dante King [King, Dante]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2023-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

A strange feeling woke me the next morning.

I opened my eyes to find myself staring down at the boards of the Glen Carrig. A rope stretched across my cheek, with another pressing against my forehead, pushing up a lock of hair.

It was still dark; the sun was about to come up. Any minute now, the deck would fill with activity, and we’d be peppered with questions and jokes about the previous night. Normally, I’d have closed my eyes and gotten a few more minutes of rest before that happened.

But the strange feeling shot me to full wakefulness. For a few heartbeats it confused me, then it clicked.

The Glen Carrig was no longer rocking back and forth.

We’d made it to port.

“Girls,” I muttered sleepily, forcing myself to a sitting position. The hammock made it hard as it rocked back and forth more than enough to make up for the ship’s sudden stability. “Get up. We’re here…”

Neither Lexi nor Maria wanted to rise, but when they felt the same thing I had, they shot awake. Both bolted upright in the hammock, nearly falling from the ropes in their surprise.

“Oh shit!” Maria gasped, throwing her legs over the side and putting on her boots. “We made it. Marauder’s Reef!”

It certainly lived up to the name. The smell of brine and fish filled my nostrils as I climbed from the hammock and got my first good look at the island’s harbor. The port was large, with dozens of ships moored against its many piers—a great many of which were far bigger than the Glen Carrig. Beyond it stretched warehouses and streets, the buildings all constructed from the same beige sandstone as the rocks surrounding the reef.

But it was the coral that was the real star.

It grew all over everything as if some ancient sea god were trying his damnedest to reclaim the outpost from those who’d established it here. It came in as many colors as there were shades of the rainbow, coating the buildings and warehouses of the dock in a kaleidoscope of brilliant shades. Here and there it even appeared to have been trimmed down with tools and turned into a kind of otherworldly decoration.

I wondered if the whole reef had been carved in such a manner. The longer I looked at Marauder’s Reef, the more I became certain that the settlement had been formed out of the coral, rather than the other way around. The people of this place had built their city on what they could find. The farther I looked out over the reef, the more coral covered the buildings. I wondered if the oldest structures in the settlement weren’t made out of them entirely.

Even at this early hour, a variety of people went about their business. Almost none of them were human. I saw plenty of orcs, elves, and goblins, with the occasional monster of Lezabel’s species conducting business or eating at a dockside pub. The styles of dress were almost as diverse as the people, a

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