The Legend of William Oh

Chapter 182: Cancer Excised

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Birdsong echoed across the clearing, and the sun was beginning to flirt with the horizon. The massive lump of glass was still smoldering off to the side, faintly cracking as the outside cooled off faster than the inside.

It had been quiet for quite some time.

One second Will was there, and the next he’d vanished, the only indication he’d been there were some footprints in the earth leading toward the pit radiating enormous amounts of heat from its edges.

It was easy to forget that Will was a rogue archetype until he vanished like that.

s shot after them, but Will and Kincaid outpaced or avoided all of them, hitting the ground in explosion of earth.

Will’s snakes left Kincaid groaning in the crater his bulk had made, and raced back up into the sky, mincing the flying minions above.

Will created a building-sized umbrella of solid air to protect himself and his caravan, in case the chunks raining down had some kind of disease or curse, or reassembled themselves somehow.

Kincaid groaned, trying to push himself back up with a cancerous pseudopod.

let”

“I know.” Will said quietly. “You were a black-hearted monster and it’s going to burn me up inside to say nice things about you. But I appreciate the secrets.”

“And I appreciate the pretty lies.”

Will turned to the arriving caravan “Everybody arrange yourselves by Party and take a shot, just like we practiced.”