Christopher Martin
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"This can't keep going on like this," Guy declared. "We have to work things out." "Why should I do that?" An imperious voice cut through the static emanating from the other end of the crack. "We're sharing a body-" "If I wait it out, I won't have to share it anymore," the voice emphasised. "Do you really want to do that?" Guy probed. "Why should I bother to keep an indecisive waste of space such as yourself occupying my vessel?" The voice scoffed. "The sooner you're gone, the sooner I can get on with…-
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A/N: There is a poll on Discord in #events-committee channel. It's to gauge reader preference so that I can decide on how to write an upcoming arc. Please take the time to leave a response there. OR check comments of this chapter. ____ Through some rather obscene "hardcore parkour" of rationalisation, Guy's fractured mind (following the gruesome chain of terrorist attacks and mass murder) had mended. Well, mended was a generous descriptor for the fragile yet somehow unified state his mind was in. The…
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A loss is always a sobering experience, especially when it's the first loss one faces in their life. Of course, that is only if the party experiencing the loss is graceful enough to accept it and move on. The Rat King was not. He had never faced such an insulting loss in his entire life (in rat years)! He wasn't reconciled with it. He had essentially sacrificed over 98% of his physical growth to save himself from that demon parading in a weak skin suit. How was he supposed to know that it was all a trap…
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It was a glorious feeling to save a person from the brink of death. The hitherto unnamed plague (epidemic, disease, what-have-you) was a guaranteed death warrant the moment it was contracted, and its symptoms became apparent. However, this was debunked within seconds of the "cure" entering the bloodstream of the man who exhibited symptoms recently and retched all over Kili. After Josie, performed the ritual (which Jean could barely follow), the half-litre container of crimson-red blood was reduced to a…
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Shout-out and thanks to Leo_Micado for beta-reading this chapter. ____ Jean was well-read in magic. Because she couldn't learn or practice it in her early teens, all she could do was brush up on theories to fill up the void in her heart. She knew a lot of concepts and topics ranging from trivial to the arcane. However, she could not retrieve any information regarding the so-called "Universal Panacea Physique" and why Josie called it a two-faced gift. "Now that the slave has thought it over, it is…
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Shout-out and thanks to Leo_Micado for beta-reading this chapter. ____ Jean's perception of time reached a complete standstill. A single second extended to encompass a lifetime, as her brain struggled to process what had just occurred. With every plan, there is the worst-case scenario that everyone seeks to avoid, and the catastrophic case that everyone fails to predict. This was a disaster packaged inside a catastrophe served in a platter of misfortune. This was not supposed to happen! Jean's vision…
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Shout-out and thanks to Leo_Micado for beta-reading this chapter. ____ Before Josie departed, she and Jean immediately went about cleansing the area with the aerosolised disinfectant and set up a large group of triage tents to manage the treatment of the infected. As it stood, those affected by the disease were spread out within the quarantined region. It would be inefficient to administer and manage care in this dispersed state, so the first order of business would be to herd the affected into a…
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Shout-out and thanks to Leo_Micado for beta-reading this chapter. ____ Hearing no response, Jean started to inch closer towards the source of the hushed sounds, while keeping her mana senses extended to their limits. The sphere of mana spread outwards and immediately intercepted two figures hiding under the floorboards of the house. Jean furrowed her brows and shoved her hand into the wood and pulled it out. A shriek overlaid on top of a deathly cough resounded, as the forms of a dishevelled girl…
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A/N: No uploads next week. I have a family event I need to attend back home and won't have time to write at all. Apologies. ____ Jean could only see the sea of rodents from afar. Just observing the undulating mass discomfited her - she didn't want to be anywhere near that mess. But a question popped into her mind at that instance. 'Why are there so many rats here?' Maybe it was because of all the carrion. Rats were omnivorous to the extreme, even going as far as eating rotten meat should the need…
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The quarantine encompassed a large region between a Duchy and two of its neighbouring Marches. Within it, there were multiple villages and a township that stood as a key trading hub. Unfortunately, because of the epidemic and the subsequent collapse of the economy, the entire region was closed off and effectively excised from the trade links. This should have affected the Duchy and Marches greatly, and it did, but unlike businesses, Clans ran their profit-loss analysis in years to decades, rather than…
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