1st Book: The Book of Fire Storms
Copyright© 2025 by Luvirini
Chapter 1
The Adventure Begins
July 1
The group consists of the knight Ra, the troubadour Kieron, the wizard Jaysek, the mentalist Neiia, the woodsman Agnarr, and the priest Ertak. The others had been in the same class in the adventurer’s guild training in Brazenhold, except for Ra who joined only a few days ago. The group needs to go consecrate some crypt near Kassen. Their contact is the mayor of Kassen, Jonark Uptal.
The group figures that they will reach their destination in two days. Neiia complains the entire journey that something is wrong with her equipment. She also fiddles with her gear during every break, not being used to moving on foot.
In the evening, just before the group would start looking for a campsite, Ra and Jaysek notice some creatures about two hundred meters ahead. They are some kind of humanoids, but not humans. There are three of them.
Ra recognizes that the creatures are great orcs. The group moves their horses aside and wait by the side of the road for the orcs to arrive. When the orcs are 70 meters away, the group notices that one of the orcs is wearing plate armor and is cursing and commanding the other two, who are dragging something between them. It also appears that the orcs haven’t noticed the group at all.
Agnarr moves the horses further away and stays with them to keep them quiet. The others position themselves in the forest, behind trees and bushes. The orcs walk past the group without noticing anything. They appear to be dragging a large 10-meter-long copper sword. The others watch as the orcs pass by without doing anything, but Ra begins to sneak after the orcs. No one else notices that Ra attacks the orcs, so they just watch the orcs without noticing Ra. Ra manages to get behind the orcs without anyone noticing him, and then he strikes one orc three times in the back, but it seems that the blows do not penetrate the armor well.
After this, the orc drops his end of the big sword, jumps around and attacks Ra. Ra begins to retreat while Kieron also rushes toward the battle. Jaysek also walks toward the battle, shooting with his pistol until it breaks. Ertak aims at the orcs with his bow but the shot goes wide and hits a tree.
Neiia shoots at one orc with an explosive fireball but that doesn’t accomplish much, but when she fires a fire bolt at almost point-blank range at the same orc, the entire orc disappears into smoke.
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