Elizabeth Williams
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When I arrived in the town, I did my best to look relaxed and casual. I wanted to talk with Zolast, and I was even ready to reveal some of my secrets if that was required to get his buy-in. I was a rather selfish man, but I had my own red lines … kidnapping people and turning them into monsters were well-past that limit. It was not just self-preservation anymore. However, I didn't want to rush to him the moment I arrived at the town, which might imply that there was a problem with the hunting outpost…
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After my spectacular show of illusion, I escaped the town and run through the opposite side of City Yoentia for ten minutes before finally taking a break, killing the occasional beasts that targeted me despite Charisma as I fought. I waiting to see if there were any that were trying to follow me still. For now, it seemed to be none, but better safe than sorry. Interestingly, I expected Concealment to reduce the monster attacks, but that seemed not to be the case. Either it had to be much higher than…
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There was an art to noticing hidden pursuers, and, as I followed my unfortunate victim back to the same passage he had used, I had to use that art to see who else was following them — which was inevitable after the secret message the guard had sent. The first, and the easiest, step was to break the pattern. Unless a tail was a complete amateur with no sense, not caring whether they were noticed or not, they wouldn't just follow someone on the street directly. Slowing down at first, then getting faster…
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"Wow, that was harder than I expected," I said as I let the mana around my eyes dissipate as I rushed between the roofs for a while to make sure no one followed me. Of course, being hard didn't refer to convincing my target … but maintaining that glow during the discussion. Though the result was worth the effort. Initially, I had only tried that fake glow because I had some problems hiding my eye color in a world that didn't have convenient contact lenses, but the results had been similarly impressive.…
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Barzist didn't expect to be woken up early, as he had given his men strict orders to make sure he was not disturbed. After a week of constant work, he finally had a chance to sleep, and he had been intending to enjoy it. His week had been chaotic since he had stupidly made a greedy bet, and decided to believe a mysterious man with a mysterious deal. In the end, not only he lost precious cargo — half of it to that thief, the other half impounded by the guards — and almost a dozen men, but he also had…
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Twenty minutes later, I was once again at the edge of the Town Maell. This time, I trusted the darkness of the night to cover me, so I rushed forward with relative recklessness. Though, when I arrived, I had to stop a moment and examine the town carefully to make sure I had arrived at the right location. The changes the town had experienced were … impressive. The first difference was the outer defensive line away from the town. An elatriss away from the outer walls, there were twenty-four large towers,…
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After my initial trip to the new hunting lodge, I had fallen into a busy routine, a routine that consumed a full week. Every day, I traveled between the town and the hunting outpost, sometimes several times a day, supervising construction on both locations carefully. At the side of the town, supervising the construction of the outer town structure took most of my time, particularly the connecting basement and the casino. The basement was important, but luckily, not too complicated. Just layers and layers…
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"Work never ends —" Zolast started to mumble as he stepped into his tent, bored and exhausted, only to freeze as he felt a chill at the back of his neck. He wanted to react in some form… but he knew that it would have been useless. They found him. And his restricted state, he had no hope of resisting. He expected a blade covered with runes to plunge into his back, ending his life. Pity, just as he was getting used to his cursed existence… "Still as impressive as always, Holy Guide," a familiar…
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"You're a wizard, Edward," I chuckled as I looked at my hand and examined the dance of the blue glow, slowly dispersing as my attempts to manipulate it failed. Even with everything going on, this new world had its ways of pleasantly surprising me. Pity, no matter how much I wanted to play with my newest stat and experience the feeling of being an actual wizard, that was not possible. Not because I was afraid of losing the little mana I had — as I soon expected an oversupply of mana stones for this…
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I left Zolast alone after asking some more questions, mostly about the hunting outpost, which Jertann and the rest were overseeing. Apparently, almost a thousand people decided to trust Jertann and live in the new outpost, which surprised me. I would have expected far less. It seemed that people really trusted Jertann. Zolast asked me to visit them and make sure everything was alright. I agreed immediately, as I wanted to get out of town for some experiments with the small silver box I was carrying. Or,…
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