Temper: An Apocalyptic LitRPG Series (Red Mage Book 2) by Xander Boyce

Author:Xander Boyce [Boyce, Xander]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mountaindale Press
Published: 2020-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six – Crampons

There was no visible damage to anyone's ears, or around the base of the skull, near the eyes, or any other spot that anyone thought to look. The problem, of course, was that all of them had been healed by Sarah at some point in the excursion. They decided not to dig through each other's skulls, though; it didn't seem like the kind of thing you did to friends.

They did, however, go back and check the other ambush monsters and found worms in each of them. "So, we just need to find someone to do a CAT scan," Drew said, mostly sure that was the one that they did for skulls. He'd gotten a concussion while wakeboarding once, and after vomiting, they'd done a scan on him. The whole event was a little fuzzy in his memory, but he was pretty sure they'd called it a CAT scan.

Only Chomp found the humor in the situation, his warm chuckle echoing strangely down the passage. This earned both men glares from the rest of the party. Drew thought it had probably been worth it.

The air got colder the farther away from the first chamber they got. The occasional ambush beast fight did little to warm them up, and soon the sweat-soaked clothing began to harden and freeze, sending everyone's teeth chattering.

"This place is a literal nightmare," Robbi said, blowing on his hands to keep the blood flowing into them. The need to keep his sword out and ready meant that he couldn't put his hands under his armpits like some of the luckier group members. "First it was boiling, now it's freezing. At least we don't have any more of those poison vines attacking us."

Drew frowned. Everything in this dungeon had come at them indirectly. Even going so far as to not attack them at first, then the plants and ambush beasts. Now it was the temperature changes. It was almost like it was designed to deter people from going deeper. Not in any deadly way, but just out of inconvenience. Were the worms this smart? How much did the monsters dictate the shape of the dungeon, or were they picked to go together?

The line of thought had him wanting to return to the DIA building and see what changes had happened to the subterranean world underneath it as the dungeon shifted to his cow type monsters. With a thought, he flicked open the remote interface and queried the time to completion of the conversion. It still had seven days until the korath took over the dungeon. Had it really only been three days? Drew shook his head; it had felt so much longer.

They were going slowly, and could probably make better time now that they had cleared most of the ambush beasts out. The dungeon had instilled in them a healthy respect for it, though. Everything about it seemed to be waiting for them to put their guard down. They had only stopped because they'd come to an opening into another large cavern.

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