The Vampire Assassin's Blade by Scott Baron

Author:Scott Baron [Baron, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LitRPG
ISBN: 9781945996320
Goodreads: 51574897
Published: 2020-03-16T22:00:00+00:00

Xymotz. It was a somewhat notorious planet among scavengers, pirates, mercenaries, and other less-than-savory sorts. Naturally, Bud knew of it. He’d avoided it all these many years and never particularly wanted to pay a visit. Unfortunately, that didn’t seem to be an option any more.

It was a place whose dangers were far greater than merely the rough and ready folk on its surface. Xymotz was a gas giant at the farther edges of its system, where it orbited a yellow dwarf star that only emitted a fairly minimal stream of power, and a variety useless to most.

The planet, though gaseous in nature, actually possessed a small, solid orb at the center of the dense, poisonous clouds that comprised nearly all of its mass. Normally, the crushing gravity found on the surface would have prevented any life whatsoever from making a foothold there, but centuries upon centuries of magic had been layered upon the inhabited section, creating a sort of eddy in the swirling river of death.

Some might think the place an easy target for raiders seeking a new hideout. And they’d be right, if not for one important detail. Namely, the only means of arrival and departure was a single, narrow funnel of magic weaving through the deadly clouds.

It was the only way in and also the only means of escape. Something Bud was not happy about one bit. The perfect place for a trap, and being trapped was not something he was particularly fond of. Though it was for precisely that reason people were sure to behave on the surface, he was nevertheless not thrilled about the prospect. Fortunately, Hozark had given him an easy out.

“I want you and Laskar to stand lookout from orbit, safely outside the disruptive forces of the planet’s clouds,” the Wampeh said as they completed the final jump to the system.

“Don’t have to tell me twice,” Bud replied, settling the ship into orbit.

“Really?” Laskar said. “You say he’s good, sure, but is it smart to go in alone?”

Bud winced at the man’s tone. If he wasn’t such a talented pilot, he just might have left him at the next world. Blurting things like that to one of the deadliest men in the galaxy––and his friend, no less––could wear one’s welcome thin, and quickly.

“I shall be fine,” Hozark said. “And if I should not be, you will report my demise to the others.”

“Of course,” Bud replied. “But let’s not go that route just yet.”

“It is not my intention, my friend.”

The Ghalian assassin strolled to his shimmer ship and boarded it. He did not need to bring any supplies from the mothership. A Ghalian always had what he needed at hand. Minutes later, he released the magical clamps holding him on Bud’s ship and drifted away, engaging his Drookonus and powering up his own magical propulsion system.

“I’m going in,” he said over his skree. “Should any threat appear, I shall have my long-range skree on my person at all times. Hopefully its power will cut through the interference.

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