Jennifer Smith
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For a moment, everything was silent. I looked with a blank expression towards the woman who was chained, no matter how charming or beautiful she was. Break the chains? With this body? After a short time, the woman must have realized this too, because she opened her mouth again. Her voice was equally beautiful, but... strange. "Ah, you are a weak person... you cannot move." What...? Yes, I am a weak person, maybe... Yes, I can't move... But is there really someone or something that can move…-
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A warmth I couldn't quite make sense of enveloped my body... and my eyes blinked with it. As soon as my eyes opened slightly and my body started to regain sensation, an excruciating pain spread through all of me. It was so intense that I couldn't even scream, I couldn't even let out a simple moan. I could only... wait. I couldn't even resist. Seconds passed, then minutes. The pain didn't lessen, on the contrary... it increased. As if in response to my silent screams, as if it wanted to hurt me…
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The first thing I felt when I saw the one-eyed creature was... fear. Just like... like I've felt throughout this whole dungeon. An unfathomable fear that kept growing and growing inside me. And yet, hope hadn't gone out of me. Because I... I wanted to live. No matter how bad it was, no matter how impossible it seemed that we could survive... I wanted to live. I wanted to see Paul, I wanted to see Aiden. To be separated from them like this... wasn't that... unfair? Although... life had never been…
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Everything happened too fast. My senses were disoriented because of the momentary, strange exhaustion that came over me after I had used almost everything I had, but I could see, I could run... yet, even then, I couldn't do anything. I watched the creature approach Lucia and Sue with its left paw spread wide. I wished for a moment of speed, to appear in front of the creature... to be faster than it. But the creature reached the duo before me. And the one it had its eye on... was Sue. Lucia had…
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I still had my spear in my hand, I was frozen in place... I had not expected such an attack. Where had it come from in the first place? How had it managed to be so... silent and escape all my senses? But I couldn't keep thinking. I put everything I had into turning around quickly... and as I did so, something unexpected happened. The whole cave turned orange, and I felt my skin, which had no protection, suddenly become tremendously hot. The first thing I felt was fear. The thought that Lucia and…
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I narrowed my eyes as I gripped my spear tightly, and Lucia next to me did the same with her sword. The cracking sound we heard didn't bode well in a cave like this, after all. "Let's go slowly." Lucia nodded in agreement, extinguishing the flame in her right hand. We moved slowly and silently, impossible to see in the pitch darkness, but we didn't need to. We could sense the movements of the awakened mana and know if something was about to attack us. Both Lucia and I had a high level of mana…
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It didn't take me long to dig a hole with my spear where all three of us could hide. It was easy to break rocks and widen cracks... especially when I didn't have to be careful. In about... six minutes, I managed to make a very convenient place, and we only had to use one of the rocks inside the cave to block the entrance. Once we had done that, we were completely cut off from the outside. It was also not too far from the outside. But not too close to it either. If we crawled out, we could easily go…
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I had a dream. It was different from normal dreams, much simpler, but... very important. I was back in the dark place I had seen in the first days of the dungeon. The snow-white orb was directly in front of me this time, with barely scribbled words spinning on it. Mana Ascension was active, but there was no backlash even so. And again, even though I didn't know what language they belonged to, I could read the strange letters projected on the orb. Find the cave, it said this time. Nothing more,…
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?The green radiance of the sky fell on my face, the gentle breezes of the plain caressed my clothes gently. Everything was normal, there were hardly any creatures around... as usual. But there was another problem. And that was... it had already been quite a while since daytime had started. I stopped walking for a moment, checked my watch. As I had guessed... it is almost nightfall. "Lucia, we've been walking for almost two hours. It's almost nightfall, let's rest." I turned around with those…
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?I read the report in front of me again, and then again. And then once more. In the silence that descended on my office, I moved my hand aside, and as it did, the holographic report slid to the side. My eyes slowly rose, looking up at the man standing across the office. "They just disappeared, is that so?" The man swallowed, seemed to avert his eyes for a moment, but was able to keep looking at me. "Y- yes, Ms. Melany..." I looked at his face for a while, into his eyes, and as he was…
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