Daniel Garcia
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"Hmm…" My voice escaped my mouth when my consciousness started to return to my mind. Lifting myself up against something soft, I looked towards the window of the room. Just as expected, the fact that the entire room was covered in darkness could be attributed to a complete lack of light outside. And from there, I could draw a simple conclusion. Going to sleep in Ayda's arms so early, meant that even with how tired I was, I was bound to wake up in the middle of the night. "Wait, Ayda's arms?" With my…-
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Returning from the meeting, my head was filled with plans for the future. Even though the appearance of the stone-rich dungeons seemed to put a wrench in my already existing schemes, in fact, I couldn't be any happier with this event. Omitting all the stuff that it could mean in the long term, I had now absolutely the best alibi if anyone were to start looking into the source of the stones that my faction would soon push to the market. Now, anyone who would be interested in the source of my stones…
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"Do you mean that... " Initially standing up and shouting in reaction to my words, Pavlo suddenly went silent when the realisation of what it really meant dawned on him. "Let's not keep you out of the loop, mister Baskar." Given how the two of us were already in the know, the head of the family was obviously the only person remaining in the dark. Even though I could guess that a man of his calibre would be able to guess a huge part of the story from our actions and reactions so far, there was no point…
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"Is there… Is there anything else of potential value that came out of those dungeons?" Holding the stone in my fingers, I moved it around. My hopes of introducing a revolutionary product that only I would have access too seemed to break further and further apart with each second that I continued to observe the shining gem. Because no matter how I looked at it, it seemed to be just the same kind of magical stone like the one that I charged a short distance away from the conference room, in my…
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"I will come right away. See you in a minute." Ending the call without even a shred of hesitation, I grasped the bag with the shiny stones before rushing towards the doors. If the matter was even close to being as important as I instantly assumed it would, there wasn't even a single second that I could waste. Storming back to the room I shared with Ayda I could see her surprised face once again. But even if the matter at hand wasn't as urgent as the matter with the stones, it didn't mean I could just sit…
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Rushing towards the nearest door I could find, I couldn't shake the bad feeling I had. While honestly speaking, I had great doubts about anything wrong happening with the stones carved on earth, I didn't want to become a victim to a lack of confidence in my own projects. In the end, I had no clue what the underlying rules behind magic stones and runes were. While I could explain why everything dropped would fall to the ground because I knew the physics of it, I was still stuck at the earliest phase of…
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"Could it be…" Standing in place, I was unable to move even an inch. Not only because seeing those shiny stones confirmed at least a small part of my theory, but also due to the implications of the time it took for them to turn from simple, carved gems to proper magic stones. Both unable and unwilling to hold back my excitement, I rushed towards the table where the few pieces carved by Huskarl were left. Gently placing the new batch in the three different corners of the table, I finally took the…
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"Keep your hand steady… Yeah, just like that…" Standing behind Pavlo's shoulder, Sander continued to speak in this monotone, sleepy voice. Yet instead of losing his focus and falling asleep, the young master of the Baskar family was doing rather nicely… As far as my untrained eye could see that is. "Keep calm on the corner, just calmly let go of the stick…" Instead of closely looking at the gem through several sets of a magnifying glass, the two men focused their eyes on the high-quality…
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"Okay, sure. I will be right there." Barely two hours after I made the first call, Pavlo already called me back with good news. Ending the call, I stood up from my bed, where I was studying different pictures of the runes. Even though I couldn't even go through a tenth of them, not to speak about all, I could already grasp certain concept hidden beneath them. Putting the book safely away, I moved out of the basement, closing the door behind me. Even though I was fairly certain that no one would dare to…
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"I wonder if it will work…" Staring at the wand-like item in my hand, I couldn't help but worry a bit. What if doing something that worked in Ayda's world wouldn't have the same effects on earth? What if earthy gems couldn't be carved like the ones one would normally use for that matter? With all those questions swarming in my head, I couldn't really do anything to answer them outside of actually working for the sake of it. Thankfully, I didn't need to start from absolute scratch. While I felt a…
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