Rinaldo said to the group with a wicked smile, "What are we going to do with him?"
Grikius produced some rope and said, "Let's tie him up while we deal with the others."
Everybody nodded as it felt wrong just to kill him where he lay, Rinaldo and Ceras quickly took all of his equipment, and they tie the man to a tree. When they had finished the adventures moved cautiously toward the fire in the distance where the group of four seemed to be passing around a bottle that they were taking a sip from.
"No wonder this had been so easy, they're just a bunch of rich kid with no sense not to drink out in the wilderness," Rhef whispered to the group.
The team moved closer until they were in hearing distance, and waited for a while to see what was happening. Ceras noticed the man who had attacked him next to the guild in new armor and clothing. As they listened to the youth around the campfire, all they hear was a lot of bravado about what they were going with them when they got hold of them tomorrow.
Ceras indicated for them to move back to discuss the plan of attack, and when they were out of hearing, he said, "What shall we do?"
Rhef said, "If we capture them and take them into the town, they'll get off with a scot-free as they'll be able to bribe their way out of any trouble, so it would be best to see if we can get them to agree to a challenge."
"How about I go and challenge them by myself, and once they accept, we all attack," Ceras said to the rest.
"I don't think it works like that, I think we all have to challenge, and they accept in full knowledge of the challenge," said Rhef.
Rinaldo said in an impatient voice, "We'll just have to attack them and shout a challenge before and see what happens."
Everybody nodded, and the team started to walk quietly to the group around the campfire. When the adventure was all in position. Rhef said in a loud voice as if over a parade ground, "We challenge you to a duel of the team!"
This shocked the group around the fire, as they stumble for their weapon, dropping bottles and pans of food. The boorish man who had been defeated by Cera shouted, "I accepted any challenge anybody offers men."
To that, one of the other members of the group shouted, "Idiot, do you want to lose your equipment again!"
But the battle was already underway as Rhef shot an arrow into his neck, which started bleed as he grabs the arrow. Cera rushed in to hit the boorish man in the head with his staff and released a fire spell. The man just had time to pull his sword out of its sheaf but not hit Ceras with it.
More arrows from bow found their mark; one was next to the arrow in the man's neck until he fell and disappeared, leaving behind the armor. Rinaldo and Grikius had now reached the last two of the group and were hit them with their maces, for the first time Grikius dog Apollo was taking part in the battle, as he had run forward to bit the ankle of the woman attacking Grekius. This seems to be distracting, and from her screams very painfully as the small dog was drawing blood hanging on for dear life. This allows Grekius to hit her several time as her moving around, to try to kick the dog of her leg had given him an opening. Soon her body faded into dust as she was sent to her resurrection point.
Meanwhile, Rinaldo had been hit a few times by his attacker's sword, but as he was wearing armor, he was more evenly match and could take the punishment. Now that all the team except Ceras was free to attack Rinaldo opponent he was quickly overwelled with arrows and a mad dog going for his groin. Seeming out of an inborn natural instinct he tried to protect his groin, he dropped his hands as Rinaldo was able to get a solid hit to his head and send him to his resurrection point.
The only two left fighting was Ceras, and the boorish man, who seemed to be losing as Ceras with his staff was getting in hit after hit to any exposed part of his body. With one last hit, the man disappeared as he was sent to be resurrected.
Ceras smile at the rest of the team, as he said, "This is getting to be quiet the little earn."
The rest of the night they spent dividing the equipment from the adventures they had defeated, this left Ceras with a set of chain mail armor that increased his hit point by 100 points.
Additional book by Andrew Bardsley
The First Era: The History System Chronicles
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A man is transported to a new world, given magical power, and left to survive. He has a bit of help, from a mysterious system with a none helpful personality. This book contains LitRPG based element as part of the magical system in the world.
Following is an extract from the Book:
They were both standing on the platform by the palisade, looking across the plains. As the light began to fade both of them could see a group of creatures walking up the hill in a disorganized crowd. It was the goblins. There seemed to be no organization and even some fighting. When the crowd was about fifty meters from the palisade, one larger goblin started to shouting and hitting others, forming them up into rough ranks. Ahava felt a cold sweat on his brow, but Olga was giving off an air of excitement.
The large goblin signaled to some goblins with drums. The drums started the beat. “Boom, Boom, Boom...”
The sound of the drums continued. The goblins were dressed in fur rags, each with a spear with a stone head or clubs. Some of the goblins had blood smeared across their faces in horizontal patterns. The drum sound continued to intensify. At a signal from the leader, the goblins roared and charged forward.
The battle had begun. The goblins ran, some using their hands like four legs. Soon they were at the ditch with the wooden spikes. Some of them tried to leap across the ditch but fell short and were impaled on the wooden stakes. Ahava could hear the cries of the wounded. Others slowly crawled down into the ditch, avoiding the stakes. Ahava and Olga had a supply of large stones, which they started to throw onto the goblins in the ditch. A lot of the rocks hit the goblins, crushing their heads and bodies. A number of goblins reached the palisade and started to climb up. Some of them were knocked off by the stones. Ahava and Olga ran out of stones to throw.
Ahava used his spear to stab the goblins while they were climbing up the wooden wall. Olga was moving around in a type of dance, chopping with her ax at any goblins that came over the wall. The speed of the ax was a blur of movement. Ahava saw severed heads flying in all directions from the axes Olga was wielding. There were bits of goblin all around the platform. One goblin managed to bite Ahava on the arm. Ahava pulled out his knife and stabbed the goblin in the eye. It screamed and fell back into the ditch.
The sheer numbers of the goblins were starting to overwhelm the two on the platform. At a prearranged signal from Olga, both of them withdrew. Navigating the route between small pit traps and through a hole in the thorn wall, they retreated toward the cliffs. Ahava blocked off the hole with thorns.
Their backs were against a large bonfire. The goblins started to run across the area with the pit traps. Many of the first ones fell into the traps and were skewered on the wooden spikes. The followers managed to avoid the pits. The goblins were now pressing against the barrier of thorns. Ahava and Olga started to throw burning wood at the goblins. This set some of the dry material that had been placed before the thorns alight. Some of the goblins burned from the fire. To Ahava’s amazement, the goblins started to climb over the thorn bushes. They seemed to be in such a rage to get at Ahava and Olga that it did not matter the pain they were in.
Olga had ordered Ahava to not get in her way if the goblins got to the open area past the thorns. He was told to only kill any that were on the edges. As some of the goblins finished climbing over the thorn bushes, Olga attacked with her ax. To watch this was like seeing a beautiful dance, full of grace and power. Heads and pieces of the goblin's bodies went flying everywhere. Ahava used his spear to stab any goblins that tried to make a getaway from Olga’s dance of death. Soon there were no goblins left except the large one, who was the leader. He had been pushing his goblins forward with kicks and punches.
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Second Book in the 'The History System Chronicles'
This book contains LitRPG based element as part of the magical system in the world.
Following is an extract from the Book:
Namzu spoke urgently to the now awoken group of adventurers putting on their armor, “We’ll have to defend the cave from mountain trolls and cyclops, Istar and Etel-Pisha, go now and harass the oncoming enemy while we prepare for the attack. Hurry, you need to buy us enough time to clear the ground for our stand.”
Istar indicated to Etel-Pisha to follow her to attack the column of monsters, before they reached the cave. They both ran for about ten minutes in the bright moon light, until they could hear the movement of the trolls and cyclops, moving along the path towards the cave. The two took up sheltered positions amongst different outcrops of rock, as soon as the first troll appeared Istar started to shoot her arrows. The first arrow flashed across the intervening distance like a bolt of light, shrieking and then thudding with the impact into the troll's chest, and out the other side. For a few seconds the large troll kept moving, as if nothing had happened, then it fell face first into the road. The troll behind it roared in anger, as moved it forward with no thought for protection. Now Etel-Pisha shot out fireballs, lighting up the area and revealing his position. The fireballs and arrows were hitting the trolls, causing damage as the trolls found themselves alight or with bloody gaping holes from where the arrow had hit. The onslaught of trolls caused the two adventures to retreat, as they could not kill enough to hold their position. Istar and Etel-Pisha ran until they could find another position to attack the oncoming column from. The process of attacking from positions along the trail continued until the two found themselves back the caves entrance. The trolls kept using the same tactic of charging at every attack, ignoring the casualties this caused in their rage. Istar had commented to Etel-Pisha that they were determined but not very bright. The slower cyclops were always behind at the back of the column, and so were not attacked by the arrows and fireball.
The harrying had brought the required time and as they reached the cave mouth, the rest of the adventurers had formed a shield wall with a killing ground in front of it. Each of the shield men had a bundle of spears taken from the dragon's horde. As the trolls started to charge into the killing ground Namzu ordered the three shield men and one shield minotaur, to throw all at once.
Co-ordinated, as if through years of long practice, each of them released the spears as one. The four-spears flew across the distance hitting the first four mountain trolls. Each spear impaled a troll and then rammed into the ground behind them keeping the troll bodies standing like grotesque marionettes. The process was repeated again and again as the remaining trolls charged forward. Soon the adventures could see the cyclops at the back moving towards the front. All of them stood taller than Asterion by several feet. On the side of the shield wall, Istar shot off arrows at the cyclops heads to take out their single eyes. Several cyclops were hit in the face, and the arrow ends protruded out of their cheeks, as the tough bone had prevented them entering the skull. Soon the cyclops were in range of the spear throwers, and as the spears hit their bodies, they pierced but did not stop them coming. The first slow-moving cyclops eventually reached the shield wall, spears sticking out of its body with arrows peppering its face. Using its massive club that looked to be a whole tree, the cyclops swept and crashed against Nasha’s shield. If the shield had not been strengthened and Nasha was not stronger, then he would have been thrown backwards from the strike into the cave wall. Gritting his teeth and strengthening his grip, he was able to hold his position, moving back less than a foot in total.
The Unknown god: The Dark Part of the Soul
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William faces death by execution for a murder he swears he did not commit, while Michael meets his end at the hands of a gang rival in a knife fight. Jane wins her latest legal battle but loses her life in the moments after, as the convicted murderer chokes her to death on the courtroom floor. And Evon? She wants to replace her rival for the affections of a crime boss but feels the sharp pain of death instead.
Now these four, departed from the world of men, find themselves at a climactic crossroads in a world that is stranger than any fiction, inhabited by armies of orcs and fire-breathing dragons; a world that is ruled by four Gods for their own pleasures.
But a new God is coming. And this one is intent on restoring the balance to the world and replacing the chaos with order. How will four travellers fare in a land that is beyond death and which holds terrors like nothing they have experienced before?
Into the Ether: The Ether World Series
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Chris Smith, a brilliant researcher, is the first person to discover an entirely new branch of magic inscriptions. The four elemental pillars have been used since mankind learned to scribe, but the world is about to change with the realization that space-time can also be affected.
Chris is ready to lead the charge in making the new world, operating out of a magical start-up with his closest friend. His ideas will be just the beginning. However, when Chris is betrayed, his life is sent spinning in a chaotic downward spiral, leaving him with nothing but his wits.
Engaging and fast-paced ‘Into the Ether’ spins a story of magic, intrigue, and determination.
Following is an Extract from the book:
Chris delayed a few moments longer until he heard the sound of a group of charging footsteps. As Chris looked back, he saw about seven men from the Panther gang running towards the other thugs. The lead fighter of the Panther gang stopped at about two meters distance away from the five thugs and made a sudden movement with his gloved hand. Out of his hand, a bolt of electricity shot out and hit one of the five. The bolt at first, fizzed over some protective clothing without effect and then the thug who was the target started to spasm in pain. The man finally collapsed onto the ground, and the electricity stopped, as the gloved Panther made another hand gesture. With one down the four thugs were attacked using stun rods, two of the thugs that were left activated the inscriptions on their clothing to flare with the absorption of power but were eventually taken down by the sheer overwhelming force of all seven Panthers. All of the Panthers were well armed and protected by magical devices that glowed with use.
The conflict between the criminal gangs, was quickly over and the leader of the Panthers pulled out a farseeing device for instruction on what to do with the other gang members. Soon a magical hovering platform arrived, and the rival gang members were loaded on to it. A large sheet was then used to cover them as they were taken away.
The Inscribed Angle: The Ether World Series
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This is an extract from the book:
Ross whispered to Freya roughly, “Time for us, well me at least, to start earning the money. I know that Jack has gone through this briefing already but I’m going to repeat it once. Only hit the targets that are indicated in your farseeing goggles, those are connected to the combat net with the plan uploaded into them. It is most important that you limit the effects to the designated areas, as if you injure or kill any of our people it will not go well. I’ll be keeping an eye on you to make sure nothing goes wrong. If you just do what is in the command net, everything will be okay. Got it rookie?”
Freya gave a quick, “Yes sir,” and put on her farseeing goggles.
As soon as she put on the goggles, the whole valley lit up, as if it were day. She could see the fire teams moving closer to the compound. As Freya, concentrated on each member, she was able to see detail of the persons health and who they were. The system also lit up the enemy combatants. For the next half an hour, Freya was able to watch the fire team move fr
om cover to cover to the side of the compound. The movement was a fluid motion of one team's movement and the other team covering. As the fire team reached the edge of the compound, one of its members sent out a mist from his hands. This mist slowly dispersed any magical runes or alarms inscribed on the fence, where the teams would be breaching. Freya zoomed in with her goggles and watched the same man use a small flame, from his finger, to cut a hole in the wire fencing. The fire team moved through the hole and started moving toward a building at the back of the compound. In there was the figure of a woman marked in green as the target for extraction. The first fire team went in for the extraction, as the second guarded the exit route. As they went inside the building Freya started to see the enemy combatants being blasted by stun, fire, force and close combat magic. Every now and then, the mercenaries would be hit by a blast on their shield, but none of her team were down yet.
Suddenly, a loud klaxon horn sounded from the compound. The compound lit up as balls of magical light shot into the air.
Ross kept calm and said, “Just follow the orders on the farseeing combat network.”
Before Freya could respond, several icons appeared on each of the light balls, indicating a requirement of extinguishing the lights. Freya made a mental image of the inscription for opaque shields surrounding each of the light ball. As she added her power into it, all of the bright lights went out. This had only taken a fraction of a second. Now the whole compound was back into darkness. Soon several circles appeared within the compound ordering fire strikes confined within each of the circle.
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