《War Beast》Book One: Chapter 8
Advertisement
Jenny opened her eyes and found herself on a bed inside a stone chamber. She sat up and rubbed the bump on her forehead, feeling the burn where Horde hit her at. She still wore her loincloth bikini without the knowledge of why they never changed her clothing.
Across the room, the door opened where the tall skinny white monkey man stepped in. “Our chief wants to see you, human.”
Jenny followed the creepy monkey man. They walked down a smooth hallway with other doors along the way. She wasn’t sure the section was a dungeon or a lounge.
“You are very lucky our great chief spared you,” said the monkey man. “Very few are fortunate who fought against him.”
Jenny sure was lucky in the arena. She would have died if Horde didn’t sniff her hair.
He said she was the daughter of his enemy. Did he mean her father?
They approached a golden double doorway at the end of the hall. The door opened, revealing a large chamber with pillars standing along the clear path toward the throne at the back where Chief Horde sat. He wore a red robe on his muscular brown furry body. With his helmet off, Jenny could see his bald ape-man head with little brown fur around his skull.
On his left, a monkey girl approached him and poured wine into his goblet. The monkey girl has brown fur and a ponytail, wearing a golden chain mail bikini.
Horde sipped his goblet and turned his attention to Jenny. “Greetings, daughter of Barry. I almost thought you would never wake up after I knocked you out very hard.”
“You know my father?” Jenny asked.
Horde waved his hand, signaling his female servant to leave him. “We had a long history together. Let’s say it isn’t very pleasant.”
Advertisement
“Why did you spare my life?”
Horde sipped his goblet again and placed it on the arm of his throne. “Because I want to learn from you. I want to know where you came from.”
“Did you truly expect me to tell you after you tried to kill me?”
Horde chuckled. “I know I said I showed no mercy. However, you are the exception this time. Your knowledge is more valuable than your death. If you tell me, I will spare your life.”
“And what do you plan to do if you find him?”
Horde glared. “If you don’t tell me, I will do worse things to you.”
When he snapped his fingers, the white monkey grabbed Jenny from behind and held a dagger toward her throat.
Horde got up and walked toward her. “You will tell me, or else he will cut your throat out.”
Jenny yelped as the cold blade pushed harder. “I don’t know where he is! I am only looking for him!”
Horde crossed his arms. “That is why you are with his warriors?”
“Yes! They were taking me to his clan!”
Horde rubbed his chin and smiled. “Good.”
He nodded his head, and then the white monkey released her. Jenny rubbed the sharp cut on her throat.
The white monkey man would have spilled her blood if she didn’t tell Horde. Although he wouldn’t know anything if he killed her, he seemed confident enough to murder her. But fortunately, he doesn’t know her father’s location. If she knew, would she had died to keep her father’s secret safe?
Horde walked back to his throne. “You might be useful.”
“What do you mean?” Jenny asked.
Horde sat back on his throne and faced Jenny. “I am sure your companions will find you. If they are still alive.”
Jenny glared. “I bet they will.”
Without warning, something smacked the back of her head, pushing her down to the floor as she passed out.
Advertisement
Magnus
Updates daily at 23:06 UTC. 2/1/2021 NOTE! This trilogy is being published by Aethon Books starting with book one on 5/1/2021. All books have been removed from RoyalRoad. This story was posted on RR in its entirety before being removed. Magnus Cromwell kills for a living. He’s organized, professional, efficient. Like a machine. But when his family’s life is on the line? That’s something else. That calls for the kind of warm-blooded vengeance that scorches earth and summons tungsten rods from space, leaves a whole lot of melted flesh, and no one to tell the tale. It should've been a blue milk run. As by-the-book as it gets. With his sister Nina out safe and the opposition decimated by hypersonic gunfire, MC wondered where they got the guts to even try. Then something hits him. Lays him out cold, and leaves him waking up to a fantasyland with nothing but his armor and a half-written note to guide him. It's a strange place where even stranger predators eye him for their next meal. Where his life’s on a timer, and where the darkest horrors haunt his dreams, painting visions of death. There's no right day to mess with Magnus Cromwell. But the universe sure managed to pick the absolute worst one. --- - MC is stone-cold, strong(OP), and gets even stronger, but he'll still face his fair share of challenges, both internal and external. - LitRPG-lite. No stats and an unconventional system. Expect abilities and progressions, but there will only ever be a handful of them. - Science Fiction and Fantasy collide, with a touch of mystery, Lovecraft, and body horror. - Professionally painted art scenes! - This series is finished. A Huge thank you to RoyalRoader MikeWe for the banner, and to NoDragons for his help editing the synopsis. Cover and scene art by the talented John Molinero Discord: https://discord.gg/s6e5rTj [participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]
8 298Havenbrook
Thriller anthologies. Read at your own risk.
8 110Koleksi Seram
"Kalau takut, jangan baca!" Amaran keras kepada yang terlalu obses dengan horror tetapi seorang yang penakut ataupun lebih dikatakan seorang yang cepat lemah semangat. Ilham cerita daripada pelbagai jenis manusia. Sebarang kemusykilan tidak dapat dijawab. Terima kasih kerana sudi membaca!
8 171Path of Damnation
As life is cruelly ripped away from our dearest Main Character, he finds himself thrown down to the bottom end of the reincarnation circle as he reincarnates into a body that appears to cruel to be true.Watch as he uses intellect, cunning and lies to force himself past mediocrity and into a position of power.Using his new throne, watch as the MC uses and is used by politics, religion and war to destabilize an already fragile realm. -----Warning: Will get darker the more the story progresses. Will focus heavily on war, religion, politics, with a decent amount of focus on epic battles involving martial arts and magic.
8 157The Sole Cultivator
Bai Long or Asran? Either way, it's the same person who manages to return back to his own home. Home that he had been longing for since the past millennia. Yet the home he expected had changed to the unexpected. Monsters and superhumans ran around the whole world changing the home he knew into something else. Everything happens all because of these interdimensional gates known as portal. It brought along a whole new ball game for Asran who had returned to being the weakest. For the sake of protecting his mother from dangers of the world that spans from small-time gangsters to monstrous creatures, Asran has no choice but to cultivate himself from the beginning. Since... He's the Sole Cultivator of Earth.
8 202The Creep of Fate - Dropped
Work in Progress Synopsis: Lugh Neverhail, a normal man until his wife get brutally murdered right and front of him. Because of the grief of losing his wife he decides to lock away all of his emotions so he could avenge his wife. He remains emotionless until he meets Emma a goddess of kitsune who gives him a chance to meet his wife again at the cost of becoming her harbinger. Follow Lugh as he tries to reach the peak in a world of magic and status screens. This is my first story, constructive criticism is appreciated. I would also appreciate cover or fan art.
8 129