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Back: Chapter One
Three weeks.
It had taken three weeks for Alyssa and her team to find the location, painstakingly search through the underground crypt, clear the traps, search through the maze, avoid the tricky false passages, and find the hidden entrances.
Finally they came to the innermost chamber.
They shoved the door open to reveal the sarcophagus, ancient, dark, malevolent.
It was inscribed with stark and angular writing.
Alyssa pulled out the copy that Marwell had given her. The letters matched.
“All right!” said Alyssa. “This is it!”
“Shield,” she said to her wizard. He cast the spell and she was enclosed in the green glow.
Her two fighters took up a stance behind her, their crossbows cocked and trained on the sarcophagus.
Standing well back, she pushed the lid aside with a spear.
Faster than the blink of an eye, the shadow arrowed towards her out of the sarcophagus. Her shield popped like a soap bubble. The shadow slipped underneath her armor, beneath her clothes, under her panties, and Alyssa felt it wrap around her privates.
Alyssa recoiled so fast that she banged into wall behind her.
“Close the door!” she shouted, and frantically began yanking off her armor and ripping off her clothes.
Her fighters shoved the door closed with a crash, and wedged it shut with daggers and arrow heads.
Pulling down her panties Alyssa saw that her privates were now enclosed by a black shell, like some kind of armor underwear.
She tried to shove it off but the surface was slick, frictionless, and stuck as if it was glued on. Cautiously she poked at it with her dagger, but the surface was unmarred.
“Dispel magic,” she snapped to her wizard.
Alyssa gritted her teeth as the nimbus of the spell felt like a thousand spiders crawling across thighs and stomach, but in her nether regions she felt nothing. And neither did anything happen to whatever it was.
Her wizard paled and took step back. “That’s… that’s the most powerful magic item I’ve ever seen. Ever heard of.”
“Back to town!” said Alyssa. “Double time!”
Next: Chapter Three
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