Path of Dragons - A LitRPG Apocalypse (BOOK TWO ON KINDLE SEPT. 2)

After leaving the remnants of the army behind, Elijah returned to the group. Seeing them, still set up to defend, left him with mixed feelings. Sadie and Dat were certainly powerful, and he expected that if either of them went all-out, they could have carved away a good portion of the army. However, they would have certainly died in the attempt. Due to his versatility, Elijah was uniquely suited to fight alone. Not only were his forms powerful in their own right, but with his healing spells, he could recover from almost anything.

He wasn’t entirely self-sufficient, and his experiences in the Trial of Primacy had proven the need for help, but he couldn’t help but recognize that he was almost as effective alone as when he participated in a group.

Most of the time, they just held him back.

That left him feeling a mixture of pride and sadness. The first, because he wasn’t immune to self-congratulations. He liked being stronger than most other people, and there was no better proof of that than his ability to fight solo. However, the latter emotion was still present because it promised a life where he was forced to choose between loneliness and being held back by superfluous companions.

But was that all they were? Just pieces of a puzzle meant to solve the problem of Primal Realms and towers? Or were they representative of real relationships that were their own reward? Elijah wanted to believe the latter, but there was definitely a part of him that recognized that things would be easier if he’d come alone.

Those feelings shifted through his mind as he returned to the fortifications he and his companions had built, and when he arrived, he shifted out of the Shape of Venom and announced, “I put a pretty good dent in their numbers, and I killed most of the big ones. The leader’s gone now, too. But I’m going to take a break for a bit.”

The others were too stunned to ask any of the most obvious questions on their minds, and by the time they recovered, Elijah had already begun his climb up the slope. A few minutes later, he reached the cave, where he settled down to inspect his gains. With everything on his mind, opening his status was a bittersweet moment: