HELLS GRACE


    Part 20


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    Unnerving Fog


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    A swirling cloud of heavy mist covers the dungeon, bringing chill winds. It can disorient and shed a delver’s resolve over time. Duration: 1 hour.


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    Rebecca’s phone. He pickpocketed it off her jacket when she was too busy distracted by a demonic-possessed Chris. Fortunately, it was water-resistant when he jumped into the water, and it still worked after being submerged for a minute or two.


    they kidnapped? Aren’t you the Green Hill girl?” It was tough to miss Tessa’s face when she was plastered all over the newspapers and local news channels. A pretty girl and a bloody tragedy ripped out of a true-crime podcaster’s wet dream was going to ring the dinner bell for all the leeches who were entertained by people’s traumas.


    almost had a gun, but I left it at the boathouse. Unless you want to go back and—”


    a lot. Do you know where we are or where we’re going? They blindfolded me before I got here.”


    day. These woods are huge, sir. We might get lost, especially if this fog doesn’t disappear.”


    forward. There’s something else in these woods that I don’t want to meet again.”


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    I know him. He’s Zack’s boy. He’s also Jenna Batten’s son.”


    Sorry, little one, I thought. But the night ain’t over yet.


    step-mom and I are friends,” Tessa said. “She helped me, too.”


    need inside of me to survive until dawn. That once I see daylight, everything’s over.”


    Oh, shit.


    Death Core. However, the possibility was there, guided by the System. Part of me was curious to see what a defeated dungeon would look like or what happened next, but I was not privy to such insights and the System refused to tell me.


    Man, even the System was helping the delvers win a little. Not just me.


    everything should lead to me.


    That was interesting. Even Clay could feel my Core, not just Tessa. I reckoned all delvers could, but only Tessa shifted uncomfortably.


    No. Not yet. It wasn’t my time to go now that I was this close to destroying Coach Hodge and the cult. Not when I had so many plans. Not when I had so much to live for. I never felt this alive when Tessa and Clay inched closer toward my Core.


    Come to me, I wanted to tell them. And I’ll show you who I am.


    Like, I’m gonna give them a chance, I thought.


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    [Power: 4/10]


    now!”


    1 essence: Clay Havert ]


    150 crystals]


    couldn’t stop. I reckoned she realized the gravity of her predicament was more than she imagined. She was now surrounded by a group of crazed cultists, a maniacal masked killer, and now a roaming plant-beast? How could she survive when all the odds were against her?