Reincarnation: A LitrpgGamelit Trilogy (Last Born of Ki'darth Book 1) by Timothy McGowen

Author:Timothy McGowen [McGowen, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781956179026
Publisher: Rising Tower Books
Published: 2022-01-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

I lagged behind and spoke with Neako as we approached the hillside. “What was the deal with that building?”

“You will have to be a bit more specific,” Neako said with a frustrated harumph.

“It was surrounded by buildings so old that they crumbled to almost nothing.”

“I wouldn’t call a thousand-foot structure almost nothing, but I see your point,” Neako said. “The building we encountered was… locked in time. I haven’t discovered any mention of that specific building yet, but I did find mentions of similar projects. A century before the fall of the Ki’darth Empire, the planet was dotted with huge cities and buildings that reached the edge of the sky. They discovered Ki’darth had vast stores of a natural stone, Sri they called it, that could hold stores of Mana. Powerful wizards worked with genius level scientists to generate a mix of magic and technology.”

“Like the shield generators.”

“Exactly. It seems that they got ambitious and began to use magic to stabilize larger buildings with these generators. They thought at the time that the generators would last forever-and they would have if they’d been fed a constant stream of Sri. Still, two thousand years, give or take a century, doesn’t seem like a bad run.”

“Thanks, Neako, I owe you some catnip.”

“Don’t joke about that,” Neako hissed. “There are countless benefits to being an entity that lives inside of a book. Not being able to enjoy catnip is not one of them. Now bug off so I can focus.”

I felt Neako’s mind recede as he continued his deep research.

“Take a look at this door,” Tor called out.

Looking up, I let out a silent wow. I’d been walking behind them on autopilot and only now realized the size of the doors that were set into the hill ahead of us. Fifty feet high, and twice as wide, the rusted metal doors barred our path.

They reminded me of two enormous circuit boards. An array of resistors, capacitors, and lines crisscrossed the surface. At the base of it, next to where In’ah stood, was a console.

My feet crunched noisily on the rock covered ground as I approached her, and she turned and acknowledged me with a grin.

“I think this still works,” In’ah said. She was pressing random buttons on a keypad, and a small display of translucent blue responded by beeping at her each time she poked a button.

“Do we need a password?” I asked, trying to understand the symbols on the keypad. A part of my brain itched as I tried to understand them.

“I’ve encountered one of these before, but wasn’t able to get in,” In’ah said. She was going through a series of random button presses, but the screen wouldn’t do anything but let off a low beep after each attempt.

“Let me give it a try,” I suggested, my earlier success at getting entry to the previous building by no action of my own filling me with a measure of unearned confidence.

She stepped aside and I looked down at the console. It was the same rusted metal as the doors, but the surface, although covered in dust, appeared intact.

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