Otherlife Nightmares: The Selfless Hero Trilogy Read Online Free

passenger that followed you. I have learned from watching.
     
    That was mildly discomforting. It meant that Srit had been tagging along with him the entire time. He’d assumed she was outside, so finding out Srit was an AI and trapped like everyone else was a surprise.
    The fact that she’d loaded directly into his pod provided the reason as to why he was the only one she could communicate with. She had integrated into his pod directly.
    He had to wonder at their lack of protocol regarding unsafe systems. Did they live in an environment where there was no such thing as a hostile system?
     
    I must leave and report. I will notify you upon my return.
     
    “I see. Thank you for your time, Srit. I imagine we’ll have more to discuss.” With a shake of his head, Runner looked to his two wagon companions. “Sorry about that. Was definitely informative.”
    Leaning back, he smiled and forestalled the questions he knew were coming with an upraised hand.
    “It is indeed forty-four thousand years ahead. Humankind is no more, and has been replaced by their own evolutionary children. We’re currently on my home planet, which is their home planet now. Their original intention was to free us—for study, a zoo, I dunno. Srit is trapped here just like us. Srit had to go report back, probably about the very information I gave them. I miss anything?”
    “Yeah, how the fuck is your dumb ass going to get us out of this mess? Princess Katarina doesn’t seem to be very helpful right now,” Hannah said, mockingly rolling her eyes at the word princess.
    Laughing at that, Runner shrugged with a smile. Hannah would ever and always be Hannah. She would focus exclusively on the current problem.
    “No clue. Most of my plans are spur of the moment things. I figure we complete the Princess quest, which you all probably got, except Katarina. Then we see what’s going on from there. To be honest, I’m eager to see what my reputation bonuses will net us. Those only typically work with faction vendors or leaders. Worst case, I bottle up a huge number of Stealth potions and we slip out like ghosts.”
    “Reason-n-nable. If we have to sell m-m-my wagon, you’re buying a n-new one later.”
    “I plan on buying us a manor, let alone a wagon. We’ll buy a storefront and you can run it, forget the wagon.”
    Nadine and Hannah said nothing to that, staring at him. Self-conscious, he hunched his shoulders defensively.
    “What’s wrong? Would an emporium be better instead? That way everyone can have their own counter? It’s just a wagon. We can do a lot better.”
    They still said nothing, watching him.
    “Was it the manor? Err, if it’s not big enough, tell me. We can probably buy a bigger one. I’m kinda guessing here. For crying out loud, tell me what’s wrong.”
    “Nothing.”
    “Nothin-n-ng.”
    It was a death sentence. Whatever he’d said that provoked them, they didn’t want to talk about, and it would be no use to argue. Rather than force it from them, he’d give them the time to figure out what they wanted to say and check back in later.
    “Alright, well, forget the wagon. It’s not a long-term solution. We need to plan ahead for our long term. As to truly getting out of this, we shall see. I’m going to spend some time on my level up and sorting out the abilities I picked up. I opened your access to the servers if you need anything from the ship.”
    After calling up the level acceptance screen, Runner hit the button and shifted gears mentally. Up to this point he’d been dumping his points into dexterity, intelligence, and agility. Having used Spellbind and Arcane Smithing in conjunction on all of his equipment, he was now at an even playing field with everyone else.
    No one else had been forced to put every stat point in charisma at the start.
    He pulled up his character stats for a quick