Mary Miller
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***** – Eight Years Ago, Within a Dark Alleyway of District A – “Hit him!” “Haha! Feels great to have a punching bag, after a long day!” “Ngh… agh…” A boy, squirming on the ash-grey ground, groaned in pain, clutching his head tightly and curling his body up into a ball. “Please… stop…” “Hey, you hear that, boss?” One of the delinquents beating him up laughed. “He’s begging us to stop.” “Oh?” The leader of the gang jumped off of the trash can he had been…-
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After stepping through the portal, the group found themselves emerging from the same exact place they had entered the Dungeon a few hours earlier. Luckily, as it was around 3 to 4 in the morning, no one was around on the streets to see them. Fanatic packed up his stuff and made his way down the roof of a building, landing beside the group. “Good work.” “You too,” Octane said, patting him on the back. “Now, let’s head back.” “Follow me,” Jim said, then turned to Finn. “Oi, kid. It’s…
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“Ace!” Iris hurried over to Finn’s side along with everyone else to see if he was okay, but- “GRRR…” Raiju growled deeply and narrowed its striking blue eyes, forcing everyone to back off. “O-Okay now… easy, boy… easy…” Octane said, trying to calm the celestial beast down. “Just what do you think I am, human?! A dog?!” “E-E-Ehhhhh?! I-It just talked!” Octane gasped in shock, hurriedly scrambling away. It would seem he was afraid of beasts. “Tch… how pitiful,” Raiju…
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As the mysterious black-hole-like singularity continued to wreak havoc on the team, Reaper swung his scythe around a pillar to try and hold on against the suction force, but cracks were beginning to appear in the cylinder. Guess having too sharp of a weapon can bite you in the ass sometimes. On the other side of the room, Qi Ling formed a wall of ice crystals to blockade Si Shen, Yun Xin, and herself from the force, but there was no telling how long that would last. “Engh…!” Even Iris, who was…
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“W-What…?” Octane asked in shock. “The symbols… they tricked us,” Iris spat in disgust. “No…” Finn muttered quietly, too weak to speak up. “Huh…?” Iris slowly got back up from the ground using her wings, though her mana was running low. “If the symbols were tricking you… we would’ve already died at that priestess’s stage…” Finn explained faintly. “This… was supposed to happen…” Iris immediately realized what Finn was trying to say and aimed her sniper for…
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With the loss of Pang Zi, the group now only had 8 people. But that didn’t matter — they had a mission to accomplish, and they would take that to the bitter end. Tang Zi slowly rose from his friend’s corpse, fists clenched tightly. His armor burned brighter than before with raw, scorching fire, and in his eyes was a deadly determination never seen before. He already lost his friends once. But now, it’s happened again. And he wasn’t about to just accept that lying down. “Draco…” Iris…
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While everyone else was able to avoid the tentacles, Finn, being unable to see, had no time to react just by sound alone, given how fast they were. “Gah…!” Finn coughed out blood as the tentacle pierced straight through his human flesh, straight in the stomach. He tried to move his hands and pull it out, but in his current state, the tentacle was far too strong. Zelestria muttered impatiently, unable to do a thing. ‘Is this how it ends?’ Finn thought as time seemed to slow down around him.…
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Quickly pulling out her revolver, Iris headshot the few Shooter-class Phantoms who had been aiming at her in the sky. They were a ranged archetype who used their two special tail-like tentacles to shoot out white thorns of poison. They weren’t that powerful defense-wise, but get hit by one of those thorns and it was pretty much game over without a Healer Angelica here. Luckily, Iris was quite nimble with her wings and also a skilled sharpshooter, so these pests were more of an annoyance than…
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Of the three glowing symbols displayed above the statue, only the staring owl remained intact. The other two, soaring eagle and swooping falcon, both had a line streaked through them, signaling that they had been conquered already. The group, now reunited once more, confidently stepped past the statue and stood before the door before them. It had originally been locked tight, unable to be broken through by anything, but now… CRREEEAK. As if waiting for them, the doors opened up on their own noisily,…
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“… Not now,” Finn said after some silence. “After we kill the Baron.” “Mkay~” Zelestria smiled happily. “Just remember, the longer you stall, the less Souls that get transferred to me since your body is consuming it all, fufu~” With that, she sent Finn back to the real world, where he woke up. While he was asleep, his head had unconsciously rested on Iris’s, resulting in Jim looking at the two of them with a smug grin while chuckling mischievously. It made them look like a…
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