The Runic Artist: Painted Path by Ellake

The Runic Artist: Painted Path by Ellake

Author:Ellake [Ellake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mango Media LLC
Published: 2024-12-12T00:00:00+00:00


Chapter thirty

Everything has a Price

Kiri held onto her Alliram mounts saddle with her hand. Her only hand. The thought sent a wave of despair and anger through her body. The despair was the weaker of the two emotions she was feeling. She’d thought she would handle such an injury better, but even knowing her arm wasn’t lost to her for long didn’t change how she was feeling. The anger on the other hand burned hot and was entirely directed at herself. She’d grown cocky, still riding the high of her Mythic Primary and Legendary Secondary Class. She’d thought she was untouchable, after all, what was some Rare Class Dungeon Boss against her?

The level difference might as well have been nothing. She’d done the maths in her head over and over again. Her Stats should’ve been higher than that winged kobold. Even with that, the fight had cost her an arm. The pain as its razor-sharp teeth had bitten clean through flesh and bone had been excruciating. She wasn’t sure she’d have managed to bury the dagger in its stomach if she wasn’t already committed to the motion.

She knew she was being overly hard on herself. She’d effectively fought two level forties back-to-back without a break. It was an achievement worth bragging about. Unfortunately no new achievements were granted by the System. She’d gotten that achievement a couple of years ago with her father’s help. It had been simple enough, or so he’d claimed at the time. He’d tracked down an ambush predator with a weak defence and then helped her line up a kill shot from fifty metres away. He’d gone so far as to craft her the arrow she’d used. The System didn’t seem to care about such things. How you got a tool didn’t matter to it, only who was wielding it at the time of the kill did.

She’d wondered about it in the past, but when no answers had been forthcoming, she’d given up on questioning the nature of the System. Now, with Nate in her life, she was starting to wonder again. In a short time, things she thought she’d known, absolutes in her life, had been turned on their head. People couldn’t change Classes or reset their System. Only, apparently, they could. Humans never started at Legendary. Except for when they did. Mythic was a pipe dream before level one hundred and twenty, and yet here she stood, spitting in the world's expectations. The beliefs she’d grown up with were crumbling, one at a time.

She fought back a tear as she slowly confronted everything. She really wished her dad was here. He’d have held her and assured her everything was going to be okay. Instead, she had Deverell. He rode beside her on his own six-legged mount, scanning the plains for their next target.

He was a good man too. No, that was the wrong word. Good was not the right word for Deverell. He was a reliable man. He and Nate shared that trait in common.



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