Mary Wilson
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The black vial exploded in front of me, cloaking me in a dense cloud of black smoke. I was right. Something changed their minds about leaving me alone. What exactly? I didn’t know. I did know they just tried murdering me. Those vials were dangerous after all. They mutated someone on touch. My armor made me different. It meant I didn’t burn and die in the charcoal cloud. The acid was different. It hissed on my armor, melting through it in places down to my skin. The thicker blobs of it dug deep into…-
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******************************** We finally got onto this world. It took several mission’s worth of salary to hire a black market mage, but it was worth it. We had to. Getting onto a quarantined world was easy. Getting out was the problem. Skyns was our solution. He was expensive too, but he had a good history of work behind him. We didn’t have to worry about him leaving us stranded. His reputation was too valuable. That reputation was security in Schema’s universe, and paying for…
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Hearing the words made me want to panic, but I stayed calm. I took a step back from Keeja, “What do you mean run?” Keeja’s head twitched. A moment later, I walked forward and placed a hand on its shoulder. I dug my armor through its skin, finding portions of eldritch and something else beneath its skin. Using my armor, I sapped up the clumps. As I did, Keeja’s hands shook. More tears fell from the thing’s eyes before I finished the process. Once done, I let go of its shoulder. It shook…
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I nodded, “Yeah, I am.” Yawm leaned back all his weight onto his back foot, giving him room to peer at me, “No fear? That’s disappointing. The most fearful candidates tend to last the longest.” I raised an eyebrow, “Candidates?” Yawm nodded his head, gesturing towards the doorway, “Of course. Come to my study. I’ll discuss it there.” We walked out of the viewing room and down the spiral staircase. As we did, Yawm spoke. “You aren’t the first entity I’ve tried…
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I tapped one of my fingers on the armrest of my chair, “Why do you need her, and what do you intend to do with her exactly?” Yawm steepled his fingers, “It begins with a story from my past. At one point, I was an avatar for Etorhma. I was someone he chose to enact his change onto this world. This may sound like a blessing, but I assure you, it was a curse.” Yawm tilted his head, “In this case, I executed several very difficult missions for Etorhma. Etorhma granted me knowledge of the…
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Yawm was two heads taller than me. He was wider too. It was obvious that he was stronger than me. It was an immutable fact, and there was no way he didn’t know it either. Every part of this situation was under his control, and his overwhelming confidence made that clear. Still, I had an act to keep up. I swallowed my awe and spoke with a firm voice, “You already know me? Good. That makes this simpler.” Yawm let out a slow, deep laugh, “Hah, hah, hah. There is nothing simple about this…
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It was a weird feeling when the words left my lips. I didn’t expect them, but they fit what was going through my head. Maybe it was the hormones talking too. At that point, it was hard to tell. A more surprising emotion was anxiety. All of the sudden, when I thought of my meeting with Yawm, it made me nervous. As I laid there with Althea, I reasoned through the sudden spike in dread. No matter how much I thought about it, it boiled down to one thing. I had something to lose now. Up till this point, I…
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Ajax looked at me then back at Hod. He cupped his chin, “Are…” He spread out his arms, “Wait, is this a human custom?” Althea bust out laughing before I shook my hands back and forth, “Don’t worry. It was just a terrible joke is all.” Torix massaged his temples with his bony fingers, “Hopelessly terrible jokes aside, I’ve already received the meeting date for you and Yawm meeting each other.” Ajax crossed his arms, “Already?” He leaned against the rock wall, “When…
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With that in mind, I kept my experiments tame. I wasn’t about to try and fuse to different existences together like Yawm was. My goals were simple: get stronger, faster, and better. Considering I could generate stats, that wouldn’t be too difficult. The primary problem with my current strategy was time. Based on how long I’d had the rune on my left arm running, I gained about 8 strength and dex a day. That was an enormous amount over the long run, but it isn’t enough to kill Yawm. I needed a…
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I watched the ball of light float over the city and reach the legion’s battle. Whenever the light hit the ground, I lost my vision. My vision returned a moment later. The light singed my eyesight. It was brighter than the sun. A plume of dust rose above the point of contact. Another wave rippled across the city as the clouds above the impact zone expanded outwards in a circle. Another shockwave hit me, though this time it wasn’t nearly as powerful as before. Above the energy ball’s impact, a…
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