Sunscorch (Rise To Omniscience Book 8) by Aaron Oster

Author:Aaron Oster [Oster, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: GFS Publishing Inc
Published: 2020-12-10T06:00:00+00:00

“Having a preferred stance is a weakness people breed into themselves. Fight only with your right or only with your left, and you give your opponent the advantage before the battle even begins.”

Gritting his teeth, Morgan shifted his stance, moving his right foot forward and trying to balance lightly on the balls of his feet. The blood loss was messing with his balance, and the cold had sapped a lot of the strength he’d had.

He was visibly lagging, the fear and adrenaline having exhausted him as well, leaving him facing a still-undamaged rank 9 beast — one that was not going to cut him any slack or give him a break. It padded forward, sensing his weakness, and lunged at his leg.

Morgan tried to pull back but was too slow. He cried out in pain as the beast’s sharpened teeth punched through his skin, its powerful jaws cracking the bone in his leg. Even as he went down, he tried to break the beast’s grip by striking it in the nose again. But the wolf turned its head, and Morgan ended up impaling his hand on one of the beast’s many jagged spines.

He fell, striking his head hard on the ground, and his vision flashed red. He was now in so much pain that he was delirious, yet the fear still refused to flee. He felt the sheer terror of his looming death, the inevitable end that he could not stop, no matter how hard he fought.

The wolf released his leg, leaving it to lie useless, broken and crooked at an odd angle. It placed its front paws on his chest once more, pressing down hard and driving the air from his lungs. He was too weak to fight back. The pain in his limbs was too great, and the loss of blood robbed him of what little strength he had remaining.

Yet, as the beast lowered its head, the intent clear, Morgan found that he desperately wanted to keep living. Despite all the pain, suffering, and agony he felt, Morgan did not want to die. The sheer terror of nothingness, the end that would come, was just too much. He bucked his hips, trying to get away, even as the wolf’s jaws clamped around his throat.

Morgan felt the pain, the moment when it was all over. He could feel his neck giving way between the powerful jaws. The world around him turned black.

As soon as it went dark, he found himself lying on his back, at the center of the crater.

His clothes were soaked in sweat, his hair sticking to his face and neck. His heart was beating so quickly that he felt as though it were trying to tear itself free of his chest, and yet, he felt perfectly fine. Better than fine, even.

The complete lack of pain, broken bones, and torn muscles was such a relief that he began to laugh. If anyone had seen him at that moment, they’d have thought he’d gone insane and that for some strange reason, the most powerful fighter in all the Five Kingdoms had just snapped.

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