Unbound Deathlord_Obliteration by Edward Castle

Author:Edward Castle [Castle, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Edward Castle
Published: 2018-02-23T22:00:00+00:00

Trying to contact Manhart...

Success!

<Jack Thorn,> his voice said in my head. <What an unpleasant inevitability.>

So the asshole was waiting for me to call, huh?

<What's up?> I replied. <Listen, I need to know how to get the elementals to not kill me.>

<What elementals?> His voice reached the zenith of innocence.

<No time for games. My team is trapped in their teleportation hub and unless you tell me how to deal with them, we'll all die.>

<Have you tried talking to your captors?> Now he was giving me sarcasm.

<As incredible as it may sound, yes. I, such a taciturn person, did indeed try to use speech. And they attacked me without provocation. Now, help?>

He was silent long enough that I thought he wasn't going to answer. <This teleportation hub… It wouldn't happen to be the Temple of the Water Goddess, would it?> There was... Veneration in his voice?

As I expected, he knew where I was, and probably how to get the hell out of here. <I guess.>

<Let me talk to the Goddess,> he said quickly.

<By 'Goddess', do you mean the water elemental in the middle of thousands of other elementals, some of which have already tried to kill me?>

<No, ignorant fool. I mean the Water Goddess whose spirit has been possessing water elementals throughout eternity. You stand in a holy place and I highly suggest you to be extremely careful about doing anything disrespectful in there.>

I looked at the bite marks at the marble pillars. Did that count as disrespectful?

<It doesn't make sense,> I said. <Why did she call me here and then try to get me killed?>

<She what?> He was incredulous.

<I was looking for some intelligent creatures in the maze under the castle that leads to the secret entrance->

<The what?> His voice was even more dumbfounded.

<Come on, Manhart. We both know you know what I'm talking about.>

<Thorn, I swear to you that I have no idea about this maze or the call from the Goddess. You're close to the castle?>

<I was. At least before I was teleported to wherever I am.>

<It exists, then?> He asked dubiously.

My eyes widened. <Wait, what?!>

<Stay right where you are. Don't move. I'll get to you in... Five days.> He hung up.

Five days to get here wasn't bad. Knowing that he had a way to track me, however, was terrible. And realizing that all my guesses as to why Manhart had sent me to conquer the castle were bullshit was a mighty blow to my ego.

In all my wildest dreams, I had never considered that he simply... Didn't think the castle existed.

I had been acting all the time with the assumption that there was a high likelihood of the secret entrance being known by the lich, or of the quest being a trap. But in the end, he had just used me as a simple scout.

It was my fault, really. I had forgotten the most basic thing about Manhart:

He was an NPC.

Artificial intelligence could do many things that humans couldn't. However, unless specifically developed for it, they weren't known for forming shadowy intrigues.

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