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The blaze of white light receded and I found myself standing on one side of the battle arena. The crowd had gone completely silent. At the beginning of every other fight, there had been uproars and wild applause, this time you would probably be able to hear a pin drop if you listened hard enough. On the other side of the arena stood my opponent. The alien I was facing off against was another bipedal, with two arms and two legs just like a human. They stood slightly taller than a human, though, at least…-
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I looked over to Yr'Arl, ready to say something or other about each match being decided in a matter of single moments and mistakes, and that when it came to our turns in the arena we should be careful to try and make as few as possible. But as I turned all I was met with was a flash of white light. Yr'Arl was the next competitor in the spotlight. "And next up we have the skilled and dangerous Yr'Arl of the Ethati Trade Federation Worlds, up against Borock, who hails from the legendary Natani race,…
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"So, what do you think?" I asked Akash after Belana had teleported us back to the corridor outside of the Initiate room. Akash turned to me and fixed me with a glare that I could only describe as withering, the leaves that made up the outer layer of his body bristled slightly as if a heavy wind was passing through them. "What do I… Think," He seethed. "I think that I was put into a situation that could have led to the premature end of my entire species, and now the fool wants to put the both of us on…
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I jogged to catch up with Akash the moment I had left the room. "Hey, are you doing okay?" I asked. "Even I know that fighting against the Morde Kash is something that should be done at a distance, and preferably with heavy artillery." Of course, that wasn't something that I knew with any personal experience with the creatures, I was just going off of the similar species that I had seen in various forms of media over the years. If these things were like the borg or the cybermen, then a single touch could…
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I couldn't understand why they weren't stopping the fight. Thiss had just admitted to wanting to essentially kill Akash, to rip his body of its individuality and add it to their growing hive mind. Surely that was against every rule in the book? BB said, I'd never even heard of the name before, but if they were anything like the cybernetic hive minds I'd watched in TV shows and seen in video games, then if Akash let himself become infected by whatever method they used to convert others to their kind…
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I walked back over to where I had been sitting and mulled the encounter I'd had with the Urstnir of Napdid over in my head. I no longer thought that the creature had gone from one universe to another, or at least not in the same way that I had. In fact, I had a little bit of a different idea of what the Urstnir of Napdid might have actually been, though I had no real way to confirm the theory. What if the Urstnir of Napdid was actually one of the strange void creatures that I had met in the Chasm, one…
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The gaseous Urstnir of Napdid drifted above the still oblivious Wolsoff and began to swirl ominously. If it weren't for the cloud's purple appearance I would have almost mistaken it for a storm cloud. The hair on my arms stood on end as if signalling the beginning of an incredibly powerful attack. I looked around at the others in the Initiate room, and they all looked on edge as well. THe Urstnir of Napdid was said to be one of the strongest beings around, and we were about to get a first-hand account…
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"We've got two more Initiates who we weren't able to introduce coming up next," Belana said over the intercom as two more flashes of light lit up the arena. "On one side we have the legendary Urstnir of Nadpid, a gaseous entity who supposedly comes from an entirely different universe than our own!" That caught my attention in an instant. Another being that supposedly came from another universe? A being that was like me? Did that meant that they had been taken by the creatures in the chasm and given new…
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While Boledo was busy clutching at their oversized eye in pain, Ustrata was already on the move to keep the momentum. The crystalline alien slammed their hands onto the ground palms down and began to chant. A blue shine started to appear on the ground where his hands were contacting the floor, slowly, and then much quicker as it crept toward the stunned Boledo. His spell was creating a crystal growth, and its target was the opposing alien. The growth grabbed onto one of Boledo's three legs and latched…
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"I had expected the mechanical creature to perform better in that bout, I must admit," Yr'Arl said. "Both victories thus far have been unexpected things, the opposite of how they might first appear." I had to agree. I'd definitely expected the robotic squid to do a much better job. If you were going to upload your consciousness into a metal body, you'd expect some of the benefits of doing that to be increased battle power. Otherwise, what was the point in doing it in the first place? Either way, that…
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