A New World (Gamer, Book 1)
out much
beyond that he has a rather evil looking appearance.
    "I think we found who we are looking for,"
Axel notes.
    She pulls forth her bow and nocks an
arrow.
    "I don't know about you, but I'm getting a
little tired of this place. Shall we get this over and done
with?"
    Harry smiles and gestures for her to go
ahead.
    She brings her bow up and fires a single arrow
at the man above. He knocks it out of the air with a blast of
silver light that carries past the weapon and knocks both players
to the ground.
    "Well, that didn't work as expected," Harry
says as he scuttles to his feet.
    They dodge to the side as a ball of fire slams
into the ground and incinerates the floor where they were standing.
It's so hot that the floor of the cave is left red hot and melting
from that one single strike.
    The man skips about and raises both hands. He
begins to chant loudly and more silver light slaps down onto both
of them. Harry finds himself blinded by the intense light and
stumbles around, barely avoiding getting hit by the fireball that
erupts next to him.
    There is a scream from his right and he turns
his head as his vision clears to see Axel slapping away at her arm,
which has nearly completely disintegrated, leaving a blackened
stump where once there was her forearm.
    She looks to Harry and he sees fear on her
face. Harry can see that her health gauge is nearly completely gone
and it is slowly ticking away as the game mimics blood
loss.
    He looks up to the man above and realizes
that, if they don't get up there or get the wizard down here, both
of them are going to die.
    He runs in her direction, dodging two more
balls of fire, while she does her best to stay alive. When he
reaches her, he grabs hold of her bow and pulls an arrow from her
quiver.
    He takes a shot. It's a horrible miss. The
arrow doesn't even get close to the enemy and the magic user stops
firing fireballs at them to laugh loudly at the weakness of Harry's
bow skills.
    He looks back at Axel who is beginning to fade
slightly as she nears death.
    Harry grabs hold of her and shakes her as her
eyes begin to glaze over. He can see that shock is already setting
in from the intense pain that she is experiencing. She won't last
much longer like this.
    Axel blinks twice and tries to gain control of
herself. The slow loss of life comes to a halt as her concentration
knocks away the damage causing effect of the blood loss and
shock.
    "Give me the sling," Harry says.
    Axel nods and passes him the weapon. She hands
over the stones and he walks into the middle of the room to look up
at the wizard, who is still looking amused.
    "I am about done with this place," he says to
the man above him, who cocks his head in what looks to be
interest.
    He pulls forth a stone and loads it. This time
his shot is perfect and knocks the hood from the man
above.
    There's a look of shock on the relatively
normal looking face underneath and the man's expression twists
angrily as he raises both hands above his head and begins to scream
out a spell.
    Harry doesn't give him a chance to cast it. He
fires a stone directly at the man's groin and it’s a perfect
hit.
    The wizard grabs hold of his 'man parts' after
the stone collides and slips off the side of the rocky outcrop
above. He falls with a loud scream and lands on the ground with a
nasty crunch.
    Harry and Axel stumble over to him and look
down at the man for a second. He slowly raises his hand still
trying to fight, even though it is clear that he is dead, but Harry
smashes his Pig Sticker 2000 into the mage's face and Axel is not
too slow in using her short sword to stab directly into the enemy's
heart.
    The mage tries to sit up one moment then
slumps down to the ground. His face relaxes and, with a puff of
smoke, he disappears.
    "I think we did it," Axel says in pained
excitement.
    Her words are answered by a loud thunderclap
above and a piece of paper slowly flitters down from the sky above
them.
    Harry grabs it out of the air and cries out

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