Godslayer – Game of Gods Read Online J.A. Huss

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Total pages in book: 146
Estimated words: 144277 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 721(@200wpm)___ 577(@250wpm)___ 481(@300wpm)
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She greeted me warmly. I think. I don’t really recall much of last night.

Only the memories of my day are still clear. Starting with when I left here with Cormac in the morning. He took me back to the God’s Tower and walking through that door, back to the lower dimension, was the most troubling thing I’ve done since Extracting Clara back in Tau City. She walked through that door too. One moment, she was in the only world she ever knew—her home. The next, she was in upper Tau City. What was she thinking when she arrived? Was she scared?

Come on, Finn, of course she was scared. She was alone. She had just lost everything and was facing certain death.

And then, she wasn’t dead. She was somewhere strange.

I’m intensely curious about how it all went down. But whatever happened to her, I’ll probably never know. If I do see her again, I doubt there will be time for a conversation.

They are coming to kill us. Clara and her augment. Her super soldier.

Anyway… going back to the lower dimension and leaving Jasina here in the upper affected me more than I thought it would. A panic took over as I approached the doors. What if Xi trapped me in 702? What if he never let me come back? Am I making the biggest mistake of my life? One I will look back on for decades, wishing I could do it differently?

I don’t feel that same panic right now—I mean, I’m here in bed and Jasina is next to me, sleeping. So Xi wasn’t planning to trap me.

But then, why the jitters? Why am I so unsettled?

Are you kidding, Finn? Why so…

I chuckle out loud.

I mean… I was delivered to Factory Xi City, which didn’t look any better when I came back than when I left. It’s all kinds of wrong, that place.

And that’s just where the dissociation starts. Because then I had to reconcile the lab. I remember my reaction to it because it was very white and very clean. Nothing dark and dingy about it. Which is fine, I guess. If you’re doing health procedures, cleanliness is good. It’s just, it was jarring. The city outside the tower was such a contradiction.

And for a moment, it felt deliberate. Though, if asked right now to explain that, I am unable to. I don’t know why it felt that way. It was just nothing like I expected.

I did have questions, though. And I asked them.

“Why do you do the procedure here?” was my first. “Why not do the procedure in your amazing city up top?”

Xi’s answer was less than satisfying, because all he offered was a flippant comment about being ‘complicated’. It made me want to ask more questions, but things started moving quickly then.

Those worker-bots came in, acting more autonomous than I’d ever seen before. Just like the workers under the Factory cities, these didn’t have faces. But I could just tell they were different.

They were paying attention. And doing things like taking blood from me and putting it into a tube. Another prepped the machinery, which hung over a sleek metal table in the middle of the room. It looked like a cage, this machine. With many thin tubes coming out of it.

“Don’t worry about that,” Xi had said. “That comes later. Tomorrow, maybe, if the test results are all good.”

“What do you mean, ‘if’?” I asked. “You said I was perfect for this procedure.”

“And you are. But we must test you. To look for any potential anomalies. I doubt there will be any. I’m not worried about the results, and you shouldn’t be either.”

I was annoyed at his response, but then he directed me back over to one of the learning terminals. “There are still a number of things you should know.”

And that’s where I sat for… well, I’m not really sure how long. This is when time stops making sense. I can’t quite parse its passing.

I know I listened to the teacher on the screen. It was more stuff about the body. Biology, it’s called. Something about reproduction and auto-something nervous system.

Everything after that is blurry.

I blow out a breath, looking straight ahead at an empty wall. Trying to remember.

What did he do to me?

The test results came back and…

“Finn?”

I let the thought go, focusing on Jasina. “You’re awake?”

“Mmmmm,” she hums, clearly not. “Are you leaving?”

“Not yet.”

She stirs now, turning over and scooting closer to me. I’m sitting up a little. She places her head on my stomach. Instinctively, I start playing with her hair. Twisting it around in my finger.

“Sorry I fell asleep so fast last night.”

She sucks in a big breath and makes a monumental effort to open her eyes. Smiling, she says, “It’s OK. I was tired too. How was it, though? Did anything hurt?”



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