Surviving the Lock Keeper's Game

154: Worry

Erogo took a step out into the sun, watching the empty water below. He had spent years orchestrating the perfect plan. The perfect plan, he repeated to himself. Now that plan stood at a chance of being ruined and he was angry. Every day Corey felt still had the ability to breathe Erogo wanted to go directly to him and just kill him.

That was all he could think about. Anger was his only motivation. What used to be bliss, what kind of fuckin god loses to a mortal? He kept throwing that question to himself. He had calculated everything. Every single detail. He'd searched up how the most players won the game, and yet somehow he lost. That was what worried him.

Corey had done it effortlessly. He'd done it without even knowing. While the kid might believe that he was nothing special, Erogo would beg to differ. He had bamboozled the smartest, the strongest, you name it. He'd always won each challenge.

But Corey broke that streak and now the doubt had entered his mind.

He just needed a sec