The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)

by Matt Dinniman

You have been Peace-Bonded! Peace Bonding has been negated by AI resolution. You have been frozen! Freeze has been negated by AI resolution. You have been paralyzed! Paralysis has been negated by AI resolution. You have been slowed! Slow has been negated by AI resolution. This went on for a good fifteen seconds. It was a whole line of debuffs, one after another, all followed by the debuffs getting immediately negated by the AI. “What the hell?” I muttered. A moment passed, and a few additional debuffs appeared, including a teleport and something called an Administrative Hold. All of them were pushed back. There was a flash of light, and four figures with guns—Gnolls—appeared, but they disappeared in a crackle of smoke just as quickly as they’d come. We looked at each other in confusion. Prepotente screamed. It echoed loudly. None of us moved for several seconds. Nothing else happened.