NOVEL WEB [ 8 ]
I came to with Jace, yet again, above me, pouring a healing potion down my throat.
“Jesus, that guy was heavy,” Jace said. “Looks like they don’t freeze until they stop touching us for a few seconds lucky for you.”
The minotaur was frozen beside me on the ground, with a loot box next to him. I pulled up my blinking notification.
You should sign up for a frequent dying card. At this point, you would have enough miles to get you to the Underworld and back.
I looked over and saw the four college kids’ dead, frozen bodies, each with a loot box next to them with their picture in the center of each side of the loot box.
“Check on the kids!” I shouted.
“It’s too late. I already tried. They have all froze already,” Jace said solemnly. “Gone pass negative 10.”
“I did this. What I did with my orb killed them. I made it worse. The minotaur recovered so fast. I didn’t even think that he would recover that fast,” I said, on the edge of losing my shit.
“Let’s get out of this hallway. We are probably pushing our luck already.” Jace said.
I was frozen for a few moments as Jace picked up their loot boxes. As I watched, their bodies disappeared replaced by gravestones like we had seen before.
[Kevin Chen]
[Denver, Colorado]
[Slain by Minitdeer]
[Derk Miller]
[Denver, Colorado]
[Slain by Minitdeer]
[Jayden Jones]
[Denver, Colorado]
[Slain by Minitdeer]
[Chad Johnson]
[Denver, Colorado]
[Slain by Minitdeer]
“I wonder why their bodies disappeared unlike the other bodies we have seen? Look, their gravestones are fading now too. Something to think about later,” Jace said. “I know it’s probably too soon, but Derk’s loot box had his wizard outfit. It’s a complete set. Looks like you get extra bonuses for a complete set,” Jace said, handing me a stack of perfectly folded clothes from his inventory topped with boots and a wizard hat. I grabbed them reflexively looking at my inventory.
Full Heroic Ranked Wizard Outfit of Mythrandemrightoverdir set. Each piece of the set adds increased spell damage. The full set doubles all spell damage and includes an automated mask to prevent infections. Additionally, the creator of this outfit was beating himself up for making it cream colored, getting monster stain after monster stain, so he made an additional complete set bonus of self-cleaning. Self-cleaning gives additional protection against contagions, poison, herpes, etc. Knowing you, that herpes one will be a big plus you naughty boy.
It felt weird looking down, wearing the same outfit he was wearing in his frozen state. An outfit he was wearing alive only moments ago, now dead partly because of me.
“We gotta go, man,” Jace said, shaking my shoulders.
I nodded as I followed him down the hall.
I’m not going to lie; I felt a little shell-shocked or numb. Seeing those college kids get killed, my mind was racing on just how much I was to blame. Not sure if you have ever been involved with killing someone accidentally or not, but if not, it doesn’t feel good.
I don’t really remember the next few minutes as I blindly followed Jace as he decided the path for us. I was finally taken out of my own head when Jace slowed down near a 90-degree turn, peaking around it.
“God this place is weird. There is something down this hall. They look like little onion men,” Jace whispered. “Those guys were right, there is a door open in the hall they must have come out of. They are playing soccer or something. Just kicking a ball around.”
I could hear the noise now as I focused sounding like something being hit back and forth with the small sound of tinkling laughter. I went over to take a look. There were six or so little two-feet-tall onion men with green, emerald swords tucked into their rope belts. Belts that were not too different from the rope I had around myself holding my loincloth. Yeah, I still had the loincloth on. It felt weird going commando. Do you think Gandalf went commando? The tops of their heads were like elongated onions. An oval onion with peeling layers. They looked pretty cute and innocent even with the swords until I saw that one was wearing a white t-shirt with black letters that said, ‘Don't bully me I'll cum’.
“What do we do? Fight them?” I whispered.
“They’d make good eats,” Jace said. “But look how cute they are. I don’t know if I could stomach it.”
“Yeah, let’s turn back,” I said. “We’ll find another way.”
We started to turn back then we stopped.
A guttural growl came from the hall we had come down. The growl rattled me to my bones. A deep bass-filled growl that no earthly animal could growl as terrifying. Whatever it was had to be fucking massive, as its slow, strong steps shook the walls, causing dust to trickle from the ceiling. I heard the gnashing of teeth. Then came the smell, an awful, rotting, putrid fish smell. It was disgusting.
“That… sounds pretty big,” Jace said.
The creature came into view as it turned the corner. I instantly received an adrenaline spike. A huge undead brown bear was walking upright down the hall. It had to bend its head to make it down the high-ceilinged hallway. Its body was littered with different weapons, including arrows, spears, and I even saw a large axe protruding from its back. I assumed the weapons were from other people. Seeing the bear standing and coming towards us, I could guess who won. Chunks of flesh were missing throughout his body. A slice in its abdomen revealed multiple rib bones and intestines that dangled out. It did have one other noteworthy thing about its appearance that I should mention. It had great white sharks for arms. Yeah, great white sharks for literal fucking arms. I could tell the sharks were undead too green ooze leaking from multiple gouges and missing flesh. Upon seeing us, the two sharks went into a frenzy, snapping at the air, jerking the bear even faster down the hallway.
Sweet mother of god, your scent has been picked up by an Undead Beararmshark. I’ll let you in on a little hint with this one. It’s killed a lot more higher-level guy than the two of you today.
“Well, fuck that,” Jace said. “I’ll take my chances with the onion things.”