The Primeval Apocalypse 2: A LitRPG Adventure by Robert S. Keene & Alex Raizman

Author:Robert S. Keene & Alex Raizman [Keene, Robert S. & Raizman, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-10-09T00:00:00+00:00

Crepuscular Raptor Femur

Armor Material, Weapon Material

Armor Material Properties: Armor incorporating this bone into its construction will inherit the raptor’s hunting instinct. Increases detection skill and detection radius.

Weapon Material Properties: Weapons crafted out of this bone will inherit the raptors’ mental capacity for connections. When dealing damage to an enemy, increase your dodge, block, and parry chance against attacks by that same foe.

“Wait,” I said, checking the description again. “Mental capacity for connections?”

“I think that ‘fealty’ more specifically means a mental connection,” Parker explained. “The kind that would bypass your ability to understand them. The larger gathering—the convention, as you called it—is hosted by the local leader. Smaller swarm leaders must show the local leader their swarm, display their obedience, and then they do a little dance ritual.” She went back to the notes about my encounter. “Considering the prevalence of honor in what the leader said to you, it’s probably all just some kind of elaborate protocol.”

“So it’s not just that they can connect and communicate telepathically, shutting me out… but the ways they express those connections are all unspoken rules?”

“Right,” Parker confirmed. “And you already broke those rules when you approached them alone. Though I’m pretty sure your approach might have fallen apart because you’re not a raptor no matter what you did.”

My Savagery passive would have made the raptors see me as one of their own, but I was reluctant to hurt Parker’s feelings any more with the way my class’s synergies made me better at her hobby than she was.

Then again, it might draw another adorable pout out of her…

But she might have been correct anyway. Even if they saw me as a raptor, I was probably not capable of the same telepathic bond as their culture demanded. There were only two ways for me to have even been able to get that far. One was meticulously watching the raptors, observing multiple swarms joining the larger gathering, and discerning the patterns from those meetings. The other was right here in front of me, cross-referencing her notes.

“So if I can meet with another group of raptors,” I suggested, “I just need to come with my pets. I don’t need a total connection; I just need to make contact in a way that doesn’t get me killed. Or creates a mess out of the local ecology.”

“You will meet a group of raptors,” Parker corrected, standing up straight and looking around. “And it’ll be the same one.”

“How? I just scattered them pretty thoroughly.”

It took her a while to respond. She started sorting through the room’s contents, slowly and purposefully at first, and then gradually growing more frantic and frustrated.

“What are you looking for?” I asked. “Maybe I can help.”

“I swear it was right here,” she muttered to herself, declining to answer.

After about five minutes of scouring the room, she finally located what she was after. It wasn’t surprising that it had been hard to find—it was just a little piece of whittled wood that blended into all the other wood, not even bigger than the larger pieces of waste wood from other projects.

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