Way of the Shaman, book 6:
Shaman's Revenge
by V. Mahanenko
The book is going to be released August 20, 2017
Pre-order here - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074V8YB1M
Chapter One. Emergence
“Climb on out!” ordered a man’s voice so
hoarse it sounded like its owner had been suffering from a long-term cold—and
treating it with ice cream. “Or are you just going to lie there forever?”
Even
though my cocoon’s lid had slid aside a while ago, I couldn’t summon the
strength to get up and return to the real world. Fluorescent lights buzzed
before my eyes—a standard fixture of every office, or in this case the facility
where ex-prisoners were released from their confinement capsules—and still I
went on staring, as if into infinity. My head was such a jumble that I concentrated
on the only thing I knew to be true and then held onto it like a lifesaver to keep
from drowning—I was free! I, Daniel Mahan, who had incurred the wrath of my
entire city, had regained my freedom! I had managed to trade eight years of
imprisonment for a mere eleven months of gameplay.
And
yet, this realization did not make me happy.
The
only thing rattling in my head was the terrible phrase that Anastaria had
thrown into my face: “You’re useless now.” I tried to clear my mind yet again,
but the last thirty minutes of my stay in Barliona kept surging to the
forefront of my consciousness.
