Dungeon Busters Novels & Stories

she said, finding my confused gaze again. "Aaron? But their nests are impossible to find. Not unless... light have mercy," I said, feeling like I'd been punched in the chest. "We're gonna go," Lills mumbled, getting to her feet. I nodded, too lost for words to find the one's that would make her stay. Scorchers were dangerous, a militia that stood outside the rules and laws the rest of us lived by. They were those who'd committed their lives to the destruction of every non human creature beyond the borders of the Diarna, the furthest mining town in the south. They married their work and bred for numbers. They were smart, strong and loyal to a fault and would rather see our entire world blaze

" I knew how this worked. Players could kill each other in dungeons. Whoever died dropped their items. The higher the dungeon level, the worse it got. It was easier to steal from other players than fight bosses. The man glared at me, clearly thinking of killing me just to work off his anger. I was about to pull out my items and end this when the ragdoll suddenly jumped out of my arms. "Don't do anything reckless, Bunny." I was scared that it would get hurt again. The player laughed when he saw it. "You think you can threaten me? Don't you know I'm ranked 26th on the leaderboard—aaah!"

“You still don’t get it. I was never going to win the war. I was going to end the game.” He pointed to the server behind him. “One button, Dino. All your work — the future you dream of — goes up in flames. Every ally you made. Every nation that helped you.” “You think they’ll fall for your bluff?” Alejandro’s finger hovered over the keyboard. “I don’t bluff.” Silence. Then Dino said softly, “Neither do I.” He reached behind him and threw a small disk forward. It clanged once — then exploded in a burst of electric light.

She could feel every inch of him — the control in his stance, the barely contained hunger in his eyes. Before either of them could say another word, the elevator doors opened. “Boss,” Luca said, stepping out. Behind him, Matteo strolled in, his usual smirk in place. “Well,” Matteo drawled, glancing between them. “Looks like I interrupted something interesting.” “You always do,” Dante said without breaking eye contact with Amara. Luca handed him a tablet. “We got movement around the east perimeter. Surveillance picked up an unregistered signal — similar to the one from the ambush.”

“Okay, guys, we’re doing singles because Jericho here just had to kill Steph.” “What the hell, man,” I said as Charlotte shook her head. “She knows?” Nataly asked. “She is right here and yes, she knows everything,” Charlotte said and looked at Nataly. Nataly broke eye contact first and I hid my smile. “No face shots, if you get hit, you’re out. Leave the maze with your hands in the air,” Jack said and Joshua smiled as he looked at me. We walked around the outer building to where Jack had a maze set up. It wasn’t an overly big maze but it was intricate enough to make the game fun.