Path of Dragons - A LitRPG Apocalypse (BOOK TWO STUBBING AUGUST 15)

Riding an alligator in the middle of a swamp was an odd sensation, but Elijah had to admit it wasn’t even the strangest thing to have happened that day. Instead, that label belonged the fact that he had battled – and defeated – a literal hydra, not unlike the one from Earth’s mythology only an hour before. It was just one more oddity to add to the list of curiosities he’d experienced since Earth was touched by the World Tree.

And he knew it wasn’t going to be the last, either. The world had grown into something magical and often unrecognizable, so the existence of mythological beasts shouldn’t have even moved his needle. Yet it had, largely because the thing had been powerful enough to nearly kill him. In fact, if it hadn’t been for the quick intervention of the other two people riding the alligator – and Bessy herself – he would have found his end at the bottom of the hydra’s gullet.

Of course, he never would have been in the swamp if it hadn’t been for Konstantinos and his wayward daughter, Bryce. Still, seeing the father and daughter together, he considered his labors to have been worth it.

At that moment, Bryce glanced back at him and frowned. “Why are you grinning like that? It’s creepy.”

“You’re creepy,” Elijah countered.

“What does that even mean?”

“Nothing.”

The teenage girl shook her head and rolled her eyes before turning her attention back to the swamp before them. Elijah needed to do no such thing. Or rather, he was already paying attention to everything around them via One with Nature. He didn’t need his eyes to see everything in the general vicinity.

So, he once again turned his attention to the day’s gains. First, he looked at his updated status: