Path of Spirit (Disgardium Book #6): LitRPG Series, Dan Sugralinov [the reader ebook .TXT] 📗

The battles against the hordes of the legates’ high-level minions would have been hard, to put it mildly, without my pets, but Sharkon, Iggy, Storm and the Montosaurus tore the undead to pieces. There wasn’t much use from Crusher the wolf, but even he took part in the battles, gaining experience.

The Montosaurus called a furore. Several players from the Ferals, whose castle I had helped to defend against Biancanova’s siege, had filmed the ancient dinosaur and uploaded the footage, which immediately went viral. Soon there were many videos like it.

Not knowing how to contact me, journalists attacked the leaders of the preventers. Hinterleaf and Horvac made no comment on their collaboration with us, but rumors of the new alliance somehow got out, and now the people furiously discussed what to expect. A comment from the Disgardium Daily encapsulated the mood of the time:

Juice_13 | +416k | 6 hours ago

Modus, the Travelers and the Awoken together? Now I’ve seen it all. What next? Citizenship for all the inwinova? I dread to think what this trio of clans is capable of with a top Threat up their sleeve!

Once I was done eating, I wished good-night to Roj and went to bed. But I couldn’t get to sleep for a long time. My head was full of fears, worries, memories. I was especially afraid for my parents. The more I thought of them, the more I thought they were in danger, and not hypothetical danger, but that they were already captured in a plot to blackmail me.

My intuition had sharpened recently, so I called my dad, already imagining him and mom tied up in a cell. I mentally waved good-bye to my character. Dad didn’t answer. Just as I was about to hang up, the other side picked up and a familiar hoarse voice answered:

“Alex? Why aren’t you sleeping? It’s night where you are… almost morning.”

Mom muttered something in the background.

“I had a nightmare,” I lied. “And called to make sure you guys are okay. That’s all, you can go back to sleep.”

“Hold on, I’m giving the comm to mom.”

I expected a lecture on the benefits of sleep, study and a good diet, but mom just thanked me for the call, wished me luck, said she missed me and hung up.

Neither of them asked the obvious question; how long did they have to stay there?

The conversation calmed me down, and sleep finally came.

In the morning I awoke to my comm gently vibrating. A kind feminine voice whispered in my ear: Wake up, Alex… I lay there a long while, staring at the ceiling. I had no desire whatsoever to get up, do anything or go anywhere. I wanted one thing: to sleep more, and then to forget, get lost in a book or watch a new series.

In the end I found a compromise — without getting up, I started going through my mail and messages. I checked my inbox and saw a message from Ian Mitchell. The journalist was asking whether I planned to comment on my alliance with Modus and the Travelers, and on my decision to enter the Demonic Games. No comment for now, Ian, I answered. The reality was that I just didn’t know what to say. I wasn’t about to admit the real reason for entering the Games. Then the journalist asked me to at least confirm that the dinosaur in the nighttime video was the same one I once showed him. I confirmed that the dinosaur was my pet.

Then I opened the news…

Scyth enters the Demonic Games!

What will the class-A Threat do without his superpowers?

The huge headline took up a third of the Disgardium Daily’s front page. The article’s author was the young journalist Axel Donovan. He mused spitefully on what Scyth could possibly achieve without his Threat abilities, and asked who stood to gain the most from a union between the Awoken and the two leading clans of the Alliance. He answered his own question:

You don’t need a Fortuneteller’s Orb to figure this one out — Scyth is desperate. The loss of his legate status was a painful blow to young Alex Sheppard’s ego. Life is sure to surprise him with a range of lessons, one of which will be that you don’t earn respect with a big mouth and questionable actions.

Neither Otto Hinterleaf nor Horvac Onegut would have entered into a true alliance with someone they have so little respect for. Without a shadow of a doubt, the cunning leaders of the Alliance are using Scyth for some purpose of their own, the nature of which we will soon discover.

For now, let’s discuss Scyth’s chances at the Demonic Games…

Opinion was divided in the comments, but most people seemed certain that I had no hope.

True_dovakin | +1.22m | 6 hours ago

Saw Scyth summon that dinosaur yesterday? It snapped a giant in half like a twig! I’m with Axel. The kid had full invuln and a pack of imba pets, but he won’t have any of that at the Games. He doesn’t have a chance. If you want my honest opinion, Scyth is a piece of shit loser. I’m glad he’s entering. We’ll all see who he really is, and in real life too.

First_son2055 | +0.91m | 3 hours ago

I know I’m going to get downvoted by fans of the A-Threat, but seriously, are you people for real? Analyze all Scyth’s battles — what do you see? He’s a coward! There’s no way he would have won at Kinema and then in the desert without his abilities from the Destroying Plague. As soon as he lost them, that was it! Damn, I get it — going up against a hundred thousand players, the Aspects of Light and the Colossi of Darkness is a