Jessica Smith
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Third Peak, The Eighth Floor, The Dungeon -0-0-0-0-0- Hallmark took heaving breaths as he let his sword arm go limp. The blizzard continued to rage outside, the howling wind chilling the air inside the cave even more. Around him lay the bodies of more than two dozen monsters. They more resembled the lesser lizards from the third than the greater ones on the Seventh, even with all the differences. Their ferocity and strength, however, were more than equal to the more refined-looking…-
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Dungeon, Medea Island, Kalenic Sea -0-0-0-0-0- As I deflected a probing strike from Instincts, I sent it yet another message. The dungeon's original soul ignored my entreaties as it had all the others, completely and utterly. When I'd named the other soul Instincts, it was a joke. Now though, I found it quite apt. The soul ignored every word I said to it, despite the fact it could understand every syllable. Growing up in my shadow had... more adverse effects than positive ones. It was…
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Guardian's Throne Room, The Sixth Floor, The Dungeon -0-0-0-0-0- Jerrad looked down at the remains of the Guardian, and despite the fact he should feel triumphant at their success, he felt a little cheated. Oh, sure, the fight was brutal. The Guardian was a fearsome foe and not one liable to go down quickly or easily. But at the same time... "That was "The Elemental we saw looked like fire in the shape of a woman, mimicking long hair and a dress. This one was a floating ball of fire…
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Eighth Floor, The Dungeon, Medea Island -0-0-0-0-0- "Hallmark!" Auora shouted, her voice bouncing all across the mountaintop. She looked across the snowy plains with squinted eyes, the glare from the snow almost as bad as staring directly at the blinding sun. "Chana!" Xerat joined in half-heartedly. They'd been looking for the knight and archer all morning and had little luck. The blizzard had raged for the rest of the day and through the night, only subsiding with the sun's rising. Any…
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0-0-0-0-0- The Seventh Floor, The Dungeon, Medea Island -0-0-0-0-0- Kata wandered the village and couldn't help but think how empty it seemed without Drake-kin in the training arena. They'd been a constant presence, the noise of steel-on-steel ringing over the village at all hours. They'd taken their loss the day before personally. Even with all of them at once, the guilders had pushed through them and, ultimately, beaten Tear and Sonum. It'd rankled them, and after they'd As she heard descriptions…
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Eleventh Floor, The Dungeon, Medea Island -0-0-0-0-0- Wave whooped and hollered in joy as he sped across the ocean. The manasun glinted off the water, and the wind rushing by him made him squint his eyes, but they could do nothing to wipe the massive grin on his snout. It'd taken a few days, but his surfboard was done. Carefully carved and shaped according to the flashes of instinct he felt then. When he was done, he'd called it the most beautiful sight he'd ever seen. He was wrong.…
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Guildmistress's Office, The Guild, Medea Island -0-0-0-0-0- Layla entered her office briskly, her lips pursed and brow furrowed. She was quickly followed by Felin, her aunt, and her uncle. She sat at her desk, and Felin shut the door behind them. A mana pulse into the enchanted metal plate at her desk activated the room's privacy enchantments, and Layla leaned forward on her elbows. "We have a problem," she started before her aunt and uncle had had a chance to sit down. "The four…
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-0-0-0-0-0- Tear's Arena, The Seventh Floor, The Dungeon -0-0-0-0-0- Tear stared down at the guilders as they fought to reach the final tier, where he stood. They were already halfway across the second tier; more than four dozen corpses and shattered golems lay in their wake. "They're skilled; I'll give them that. Their strength is almost overwhelming," Tear told the earth spirit looming over him. Tear appreciated his company; Sonum was quiet, preferring silence to meaningless chatter. A far cry from…
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-0-0-0-0-0- Tear's Forge, The Seventh Floor, The Dungeon -0-0-0-0-0- It'd been two days since the humans began their exploration of the Seventh, and Tear could at least say that with every loss, they improved. Every squad not patrolling the mines was training. If they weren't doing either, they were eating or sleeping. The spark had been lit. Tear could see it in their eyes; the drive to improve. In that steely glint, the set of their jaw and the tense posture they'd all adopted. They barely stopped to…
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-0-0-0-0-0- The Seventh Floor, The Dungeon, Medea Island -0-0-0-0-0- Auora Isirtine walked close behind Hallmark as they passed through the doorway into the Seventh. The rest fanned beside him when he stopped a few yards into the room. Her first impression was... that it was a mine. Unlike every passage they'd seen on previous floors, the walls and roof had the tell-tale marks of picks. They'd seen brick construction and natural caves but no sign of digging. The room looked 30 yards by 30 yards, with…
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