Viridian Gate Online: Perdition: A litRPG Adventure (The Heartfire Healer Series Book 3) by E.C. Godhand & James Hunter

Author:E.C. Godhand & James Hunter [Godhand, E.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shadow Alley Press
Published: 2022-04-25T16:00:00+00:00

The Finals

Holy. Chosen. Loved.

That’s how Kismet made me feel. That’s how Gaia made me feel that first day I believed in her. I felt a strong sense of duty to both women for how they had protected and supported me in my time here. And now my obligation to each of them pulled me in different directions. One would think a goddess would win by default.

But if that’s what someone thought, they didn’t understand how I felt about Kismet.

I was up early on the day of the finals. I found it hard to sleep without a way to save her from the bad position I had placed her in. I rolled over and checked my quest log, looking over the quest Mission Impossible again. Yvonne had always said Gaia never asked the impossible of us, but it sure felt like it right now.

If Eat Crit won, we’d go to the dungeon to have a chance to defeat Areste and put an end to her influence over the Darklings that had been spreading the plague and creating doppelgangers in key political positions. But to do that, it’d cost me Kismet’s life.

But if Bloodbath and Beyond went, they’d almost assuredly die. While every gladiator had met a Darkling in some form or another through our exposure to the Curse of Serth-Rog, Adrian, Mow, and Jiang couldn’t understand how vicious they could get. How Serth-Rog and Areste got into your head and corrupted you over time. I had only managed to stave off madness the past month because I was so focused on the people around me.

I remember the Fallen Priest Cian trying to use my friends’ lives as collateral to tempt me to join the Darkling Horde. “What will it be, Liset?” he had asked gently. “One death, or four murders?”

Now, it was Gaia asking me the same question. If I didn’t take out Areste, the murders might as well be a thousand.

I narrowed in on the optional quest. “Find another way into the Labyrinth,” it said. Dungeons were instanced to the people in them. Even if I did find another way into the Labyrinth of the Lost, we might as well be in our own dimensions. And in all the escape attempts and probe attacks, we hadn’t found a way out of this damned place, let alone a way into the dungeon.

At the bottom of this pit, there was only up.

Over time, I had become addicted to the rush of battle during a match. The crowd cheering our name thrilled me more than any of the medicines in the Apothecary Cabinet could. I always thought I was working towards something worthwhile, and never doubted we’d succeed.

Now, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to.

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