Torith: A LitRPG Adventure

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If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), please contact [email protected]. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights. Aethon Books www.aethonbooks.com Typography, interior design by Steve Beaulieu. Print and eBook formatting by Josh Hayes. Artwork provided by Francell Garrote. Published by Aethon Books LLC. Aethon Books is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead is coincidental. All rights reserved. CONTENTS Also in Series Prologue: Silvi Jacobs 1. Into Torith 2. The Crown Restaurant 3. Business 4. Enigma 5. Gracefall Manor 6. Walter Gracefall 7. Preparations 8. Dinner and Discussion 9. About a Girl 10. Boss 11. Making Plans 12. Room and Board 13. Adventurer’s Guild 14. Hunting 15. Offense 16. Becoming Official 17. Meeting Stella Again 18. Crown Membership 19. The True Value of Void Beasts 20. Alanah 21. Price 22. Joining the Club 23. Inncoming 24. Mission Probable 25. Silvi’s First Day 26. Intense Battle in the Kitchen 27. Clare 28. Fine Dining 29. Waiting Game 30. Hunting 31. One Last Boar 32. Mr. Hunt 33. City Lord 34. Heart to Heart 35. Paying a Visit 36. Derek, Dear… 37. Gerald Torith 38. Preparations Before Departure 39. Fury 40. Overseer 41. I’m Sorry 42. Oathbreaker 43. Rudy 44. I’ll be Back 45. Breaking Through 46. Skill Testing 47. A Noble Hunt 48. Murderbunny 49. Captain Herrett 50. A Noble Death 51. Jacks 52. Time Prison 53. Spreading Word 54. Leaving 55. Surprise 56. Wilmette Epilogue Thank you for reading Torith! Groups LitRPG ALSO IN SERIES System Change Torith Savannah PROLOGUE: SILVI JACOBS Silvi stared at where her portal used to be. It had closed before Derek could make it out. What could she do? Was he even still alive? Question after question poured through her mind as she stared into the distance. Derek had saved Allison and Gerard, but he may have sacrificed himself in the process. No, he didn’t sacrifice himself. This was her fault. As Silvi thought of the implications of one of the strongest people on Earth being done in by a portal… by her portal… she shook her head as tears built up in her eyes. Gerard placed his hand on her shoulder. “Is there anything you can do? Maybe he didn’t actually go inside, and he is still battling on the other side. I would bet money he could take on every one of those invaders and still come out alive.” “No…” Silvi sniffed. “He made it inside the portal, but it closed just before he came out. He’s stuck there, alone… if he is even alive.” Silvi stayed in the exact same spot for over half an hour—enough time for her mana pool to regenerate sufficiently to open another portal. She had a vain hope that when she opened it, Derek would be waiting, and he would just hop right out. Allison hadn’t spoken a word since she came to the realization that John was gone and never coming back. It would have been hard enough for her to lose Andrea, who was one of her best friends in the world, or to lose John, who she had been with since before the system came, but to lose both her best friend and her boyfriend at the same time… Silvi didn’t know if the girl would ever be okay. Finally, Silvi had enough mana to use Portal and keep it open for a short time. She stood and wiped at the tear marks imprinted on her face before focusing ahead. In the same exact spot she had previously erected a portal, she summoned a new one. The portal began to take form. Wisps of purple mana exploded out as an inky black interior formed inside the portal. She even connected it to the same place it had been connected to before. Damn the consequences if an invader traveled through it. Silvi waited but felt nothing. There was no one inside. All the hope she had drained out of her as she realized the truth. Derek Hunt, one of the strongest users on the entire planet, was gone. He was gone, and it was all her fault. Silvi disconnected her mana from the portal, and it blinked out of existence. She fell back to her knees with her face in her hands, and she cried. After heaven knows how long, Gerard placed his hand on her shoulder once again. “There is nothing we can do about it. He saved both my life and Ali’s. Our lives may not be worth nearly as much as his was, but we can live so his sacrifice was not in vain. First, we need to go back and report what happened. After that, we will figure it all out.” Gerard was right, of course. They couldn’t bring Derek back, but they could grow stronger so