Jennifer Smith
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As we continued through the trees, I looked at the time display at the top left of my vision. Half an hour had passed, they should start soon... there was not much distance between us and the mountain. "Stop, duck!" I didn't even think about what had happened when Gurdas, who was in front of us, suddenly said this in a low voice. I quickly crouched down, hiding myself behind the trees, and the other two dwarves did the same. A moment of silence fell between us, we didn't move a muscle, and…-
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The day before the mission, our team of eleven met in a large hall to discuss the mission and get to know each other. The person chosen as the mission leader was a first sergeant. His name was Harhan, he had light brown hair and jet-black eyes. He was in his thirties, yet he had a stern old face as if life had taken much from him. He had no beard, a rarity for a dwarf. The others... frankly, they are not very important, at least not to me. The mission we are going on is of no importance to me. It…
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We were given all the details about the mission. What we were going to do was simple. As a team of eleven people, we were going to go near the mountain, get information, and if we could, try to get inside the mountain. Of course, it would be a bit of a challenge as there would be soldiers around the mountain blocking anyone who tried to approach it, but that was the least of our worries. So where did the North Holar get the courage to go to that mountain that even the South Holar were afraid to…
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Every single one of the South Holar soldiers was neutralized and taken as prisoners. They were in a huge mess because the enemy's headquarters on this front had exploded, so there was no extra problem. While all this was going on, Gurdas, Rulhan, Durvan and I were being brought back to the Northern Holar in a very large aircraft. We were given first aid along the way to make sure that we didn't have any life-threatening problems, and we were even put in a room with quite comfortable-looking armchairs…
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I wrapped my fist in flames and sharp gusts of wind, wasting no time in lunging at the dwarf as my rifle slipped into my ring. The dwarf noticed me, gritted his teeth despite the pain, and prepared to meet my attack, but again something unexpected happened. The dying arms of my pollinating clone gripped him tightly and held him in place. That momentary gap was enough to decide the winner of this fight. My fist landed directly into the gap in his armor, the opening in his chest. The hot flames burned…
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I kept running, invisible, not expecting to run into any more trouble, but it didn't take me long to realize I was wrong. It had only been three minutes since I had swiftly killed that dwarf, I was nowhere near the meeting point, but something I never wanted to happen happened. The cracks in the artifact that made me invisible, the charm on my chest, suddenly widened. The amount of mana it absorbed from me almost doubled compared to before because of the widening cracks. Wasting no time, I quickly…
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Gurdas' curses echoed in my ears. Countless beams of light tried to find us through the trees. How many minutes had it been, five or ten...? After we decided to flee, it didn't take us long to realize that we were being chased. They had reached us faster than we thought, and now we were doing the only thing we could do: we were running. We were being pursued by an army of its own through the trees that were getting denser and denser. Even stopping for a second could end badly. "How far to go,…
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When we reached the meeting point, it was still ten minutes before the vehicle would arrive. There was nothing we could do but wait, hiding in this spot where the trees were sparse. Yet we were not letting ourselves go, we were alert, as we should always be. The sun had already set. The darkness of night was slowly descending on the area, nothing could be heard except the wind blowing gently. It was in the middle of this silence that Rulhan suddenly stirred. We quickly turned to him. Breaking the…
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The expressionless clones quickly rushed at the dwarves after I gave them the order. I ignored them, fearless because I was invisible, but in a hurry, I ran at the dwarves and rushed through them to the open door. When I stepped out into the corridor, the sight I saw was one I had expected. On both sides, countless soldiers were pointing their weapons at the door of the archive room. Whoever came out of there would be showered with bullets. I sighed deeply, thinking what a useful artifact the charm…
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I swung my next punch with ridiculous momentum as if I didn't know how to punch, so I 'lost my balance' and collapsed. "Pfft, ahahahahah! You're human, you belong to a race that can use mana and train their bodies to a level we can't imagine without our armor, but you're even weaker than me... It's a pity, isn't it, professor? You don't even know how to throw a punch." I trembled my whole body as if I was forcing myself, stood up again, and looked at Pulvar's expression of pleasure. He wasn't even…
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