Shadeslinger (The Ripple System Book #1) - A Fantasy LitRPG series by Kyle Kirrin & Portal Books

Author:Kyle Kirrin & Portal Books [Kirrin, Kyle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Portal Books
Published: 2021-01-17T16:00:00+00:00

“Oh man,” I said as the creature’s leap hit its apex, beads of water glittering all around it. It crashed down and smashed its way through the ice, which didn’t slow its pursuit in the slightest. “That is one nasty fish.”

I ran to the back of the boat and took up a position in front of the rear bench. I popped my staff into my hand and wound up a Horrify, my fingers blurring through the motions.

The shadowy skull shot forward and sank effortlessly through the ice. At first nothing happened, then a yellow word drifted up from beneath the frozen sheet: Resist.

“Good call, keep ‘em coming,” Frank said.

“How can I be of assistance?” House said. “Shall I throw myself overboard in an attempt to distract the creature?”

“I need you on the wheel,” I said, because I was pretty sure I was the fish’s target. “Just keep us moving and don’t wreck the boat.”

I threw out another Horrify and the spell procced a duplicate, launching a pair of dark skulls that were almost on top of each other.

Two spells, two resists. I kept at it. “Frank, what level is this thing?”

“This zone is for levels 17 to 20,” Frank said. “That’s all I got.”

I winced and tossed out another Horrify to the same result as the creature dove back into the air and smashed down only a few feet behind the boat, blasting us with frozen shrapnel and icy water.

Given how close the last dive had been, it seemed a near certainty the next one would end up with the whale crashing down on top of us.

I kept the spells coming, burning through my Mana at an incredible rate, getting three more resisted spells off before the creature went airborne yet again.

I finished another Horrify just as the fish hit its apex, willing the skull to actually do something. It splashed home, and this time the fear icon popped up above the creature’s nameplate.

Wasn’t much to celebrate there, though; the Murderfish was still falling. And judging from the speed it’d launched itself at, it was indeed going to smash through our tiny boat dead center.

“Got it,” I said.

“Please grab the railing,” House said as she spun the wheel hard to the left.

I clamped a hand to the railing as the boat spun ninety degrees and drifted like a streetcar around a corner, its wooden side screeching across the ice.

The creature bludgeoned through the very spot we’d been riding over only a split second before, dove just beneath the ice, then streaked away from the boat with the same blistering speed it had approached with.

“It actually worked?” I said. “I can’t believe it actually worked. Are we good?” I said. The creature had disappeared from sight, but I still had the same feeling of impending doom.

“That was a very stimulating event,” House said. “I enjoyed that very much.” She leveled the boat back out, gliding it smoothly northward.

“Stimulating,” Frank repeated. “Sure, let’s go with stimulating.”

The feeling of doom lifted then, as if some unseen weight had slipped from my shoulders, and I could breathe easily again.

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