The sixth chapter of Microsoft’s Killer Instinct novella is now available and it’s titled ‘Shadows At Dawn’. A portion of the chapter is provided for you below with the full chapter available on Ultra-Combo.
At first the enchanted daggers had nearly driven her mad: they had whispered to her in her thoughts, as though they were an angel and a devil sitting on either shoulder. Vengeance had called for her to seek bloody retribution for the deaths of her family and friends—to wipe out Ultratech and all of the modern-day monsters that it had created and unleashed upon the world. But Temperance had exuded a calming influence, urging her to use moderation and to act strategically. Over time she had learned to find a balance between these two voices; but now and again Vengeance filled her mind’s eye with visions of terrible violence.
She paused in front of a pyramid-shaped temple, staring into a dark entrance and its flight of stairs leading down into the blackness. A thick damp musty smell emanated from the opening, punching her in the nostrils like a fist. The odor made her think of Kan-Ra and his decaying flesh. The sorcerer’s reign had finally come to an end when the original Night Guard had stormed the citadel and burned his body to ashes, imprisoning his spirit in a vault deep beneath this temple.
After overthrowing the sorcerer, the monster hunters had made this citadel their headquarters, living here for over two hundred years; and Maya and her twin sister had been raised in the order under the tutelage of their family—all of whom were members of the Nigh Guard’s secretive order. The fraternal twins—Maya born with golden hair, Mira with black tresses—rose through the ranks to become two of the most skilled monster hunters who ever lived.
But after Mira was lost on a disastrous mission to destroy a vampire coven in the Ural Mountains of Russia, Maya became unhinged and careless, drawing the attention of the sinister Ultratech—a megacorporation that regarded anything it could not control as a threat. Last year its forces attacked the citadel, and the spirit of Kan-Ra escaped from its prison in the chaos.
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It had taken months for the distraught Maya to track down the sorcerer, guided by visions given to her by the daggers; for the relics were always seeking after their former master, and allowed her to see through his eyes, but at a great cost to her sanity. She had found Kan-Ra at his archive in the Sahara Desert; but she had found him too late. Using his dark arts, he had managed to regenerate a new physical form, and open a portal to another plane of existence. Maya had peered into that interdimensional gateway, and she had seen something that had tormented her night and day ever since: an evil winged beast bent on chaos and destruction.
“O Diabo,” she said under her breath in Portuguese. The Devil. Or something very like that mythical fiend. After that last encounter with Kan-Ra, her ability to see through the sorcerer’s eyes had ceased, as if the invisible tethers connecting Temperance and Vengeance to him had been severed.
She tore herself away from the gaping temple entrance and kept walking, arriving shortly at a collapsed archway made of cyclopean stones. She hesitated, staring at black scorch marks scarring the rocks. The City of Dawn had withstood over five hundred years of earthquakes with barely a fallen stone, only to be turned upside down by Ultratech’s attack force. What had once been the Night Guard’s thriving headquarters was now home to the local wildlife, herself, and the three other former Killer Instinct fighters. Maya had brought them together to help her bring down Ultratech. And they had come to the City of Dawn to hide out in the ruins—the last place that Maya reckoned the megacorp would search for them.
Underneath the ruins stood what remained of the Night Guard’s high-tech facility, complete with a satellite monitoring control room, weapons caches, a small hospital and living quarters. Some of the equipment had survived the Ultratech onslaught, and Maya and her new companions had been hard at work getting things back online and operational, including the sentry guns that guarded the bastions. But the sensors for those auto-turrets were proving difficult to fix, which made them practically useless in the event of a sneak attack.
Clambering to the top of the enormous fallen archway stones—each weighing as much as twenty elephants—Maya looked down upon a flat, grass-covered plaza below. Here the half-siblings Jago and Orchid were practicing their fighting skills on a plateau above the citadel’s reservoir. The brother and sister were training hard against one another: sword vs electric batons. Maya watched them for a while, mesmerized by their efforts, their shouts echoing against the walls of the pyramid-shaped temples that had been designed by Kan-Ra.
Esse é um dos melhores capítulos da novela! Orchid e Jago são deuses e não sabem cara que massa!
Alguma notícia sobre o próximo Lutador???
@ Gustavo
sexta a tarde.
Man, Maya’s family is just way beyond effed up!
Michael T. Simpson, I thought Maya had a relationship with Tusk back in KI2, but now in the Chapter 6 novella, she has a relationship with TJ Combo. Odd.
I doubt Tusk would fall for Kim Wu, she’s too immature for him. He prefers tall blonde warriors like Maya.