Rogue Dungeon 4, 'Evolutions'...Is here.
Added 2020-02-06 21:50:14 +0000 UTCThe Upstart
Lowen von Reich sat on the throne of the Vault of the Radiant Shield, perched on the hanging dais high above the throne room floor, and watched as a battle unfolded on the illuminated page of his gilt-edged Dungeon Lord’s grimoire. Absently, he tossed and worried a smooth stone in his hand, the glowing rune on its surface cold against his golden flesh.
On the page, his least favorite hedge mage and thorn in the side, Roark von Graf, faced off against the strongest hero in Hearthworld, a man named Bad_Karma. The pair desperately tried to kill one another in a room rapidly filling with seawater. A few spells and hexes caught Lowen’s attention, but the combatants relied a tedious amount on physical weapons, like peasants brawling in the street.
“I always said you had commoner’s blood,” Lowen sneered at his former rival. During their days at the Academy together, a snide remark alluding to von Graf’s mixed heritage had always been more than enough to rile him into a fight.
When the hero Bad_Karma ran von Graf through with his billhook and tore out a goodly chunk of the man’s entrails, Lowen chuckled. It was the fulfillment of a fantasy for anyone who had ever met von Graf, and true to form, the hero looked especially pleased with himself. Lowen had missed the beginning of the fight, but knowing that mouthy cur, it had likely been filled with I’m-too-clever insults and a predictable amount of trickery. Two decades of cheating death had turned Roark into a pest of plaguelike proportions. The whole von Graf family had always been snakes, lying in wait to strike at the foot of their betters. And worse, they’d constantly fawned over their sly cheats and schemes as though it somehow elevated them to greatness.
Lowen ran his thumb over the face of the stone, tracing the icy groove of the rune. He knew the truth—it wasn’t cleverness that made one great, but power.
Good riddance to that entire fool bloodline.
....that's just a snippet. We'll start next week with the full chapters . Tuesday we will begin the journey with chapters one, two and three.
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