Rogue Ascension: Book 2: A Progression LitRPG by Hunter Mythos

Author:Hunter Mythos [Mythos, Hunter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-16T16:00:00+00:00

21. Introduction to Hieroglyph City

Joey was having more fun practicing with his web pistol than he’d expected. The cooldown in between shots wasn’t a big of a deal. When he discovered there was a switch under the bulging side that regulated which mode the web pistol could fire under, he had more fun switching between three different modes.

There was the web strand mode which could shoot a long rope of web at a target and separate from the barrel on the other end. There was the web ball mode, which came out as a gooey projectile the size of his fist. When it struck a target, the web would spread out to cover more surface area. Then there was the net mode, which could expand to being six feet wide.

Of course, he eventually got bored with shooting at stationary targets. All the cacti and random boulders in the area were stuck with webbing now. Joey then had a clever idea of putting his clones up to the test against him and the web pistol.

Unfortunately, the web pistol couldn’t be cloned. Joey figured its unique nature as a boss drop item meant the system wouldn’t allow anyone to copy it without going through the trials Joey had suffered.

That was fine since he could use the web pistol selectively while he mainly used his clones as normal pistoleers armed with the glyphlock pistols. Obviously, he didn’t run a practice session with the clones shooting at him. They pretended to aim and fire as he tried to hit them with the web pistol.

“Whoa, this thing is strong!” commented a clone who had his foot webbed to a rock.

“If I didn’t know we were being watched, I would say something dirtier in mind,” said a different clone.

“Off to the shadow realm with you! No dirty thoughts!” A third clone aimed his pistol at the dirty minded clone and shot him dead.

“Joey, your clones are peculiar,” Mike said.

Joey was sitting off to the side, taking a break. The heat was rising with the white dungeon sun crawling along the yellow sky. When he looked at his clones, they looked back at him and shrugged.

Ever since he arrived in Multiverse Z, Joey had his clones to rely on. They backed him up in nearly every fight he was in, if not all of them. He trusted them because they were him. Or shades of him.

Yeah, they had their quirks, which weren’t too strange, in Joey’s opinion. He could see himself acting that way if he knew he was a clone of someone else.

Wouldn’t anyone act weird if they knew their lives were short-lived and meant to be spent in the service of another person?

“Ah crap, now I’m a little concerned about the morality of having clones,” Joey said. “Do you guys think about it?”

“Of course not!” a clone replied. “If we did, we’d go through an existential crisis. And nobody has time for that. Best thing we can do is live this shadow of a life to the fullest, which means helping you with whatever you need.

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