Sarah Davis
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"Troulon." Omilaena regarded him with an icy expression. "I'm surprised you aren't dead." "Demonic rule has actually been quite beneficial for me." The man called Troulon readjusted the cuff on one of his sleeves, as if Kai touching it had been distasteful. "But we aren't here to discuss my life. The question is why, after being banned from the Great Library, you decide to return." "Clearly I'm just showing my friends the sights." Omilaena smiled mockingly while she gestured to them, and in the process a…-
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After a week of travel Kai was beginning to wonder when they'd reach Traeton, but Omilaena just kept saying that he'd know. The Commonwealth looked basically the same so far, if a bit wealthier with even fewer wild spaces, so he wasn't sure what she meant. Then he saw Traeton, and he knew. It was actually in the evening, when the sun was setting and visibility continually declining. He was watching the sunset and deciding how long they should keep traveling... when the sun just didn't set. At first he…
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Technically there were still multiple deadlines looming over them. The demons were plotting war, Zae Zin Nim's father was hunting for her, and the monster incursion was less than five years away. Technically he needed to push as hard as he could to try to gain the strength to stand up against the unfathomably powerful warriors he'd seen at the Frontier. But it was a long way to the capital and they didn't need to rush there. For almost a month, Kai felt like a normal human being. Of course, in this…
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For a time Kai's world was a blur of pain and shock. When his own teeth had bitten his foot he hadn't expected it to hurt so much, but it was as if he'd bitten his own soul. Only force of will kept him from crying out. He was barely able to focus enough to grab his boot and wobble upright. Maybe he was leaving blood behind him, but he couldn't be sure. Somehow he had summoned the diamond star and collapsed onto it near the controls. It began to float north, much slower than he would have wanted. In theory…
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They'd made plans to wake him at the appropriate time, but Kai woke in the darkness, strangely alert. It wasn't yet time for their attack, so he had a moment to reflect. Ideally he would have wanted another week to practice with his stealth skill, or a whole month to find better monster essence. Hell, while he was at it he wanted a decade to become strong enough to fight everyone in his path. All he had was his current strength, so he made sure Mutefang's Stealth was ready, swapped Tyrant's Claw for Void…
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Over the next day they rushed out of the city while Omilaena explained what she'd discovered. Kai didn't understand the details of the reagents and materials she'd used to come to her conclusion, which she threw out excessively in her haste, but the basic idea was clear enough: she'd found where the demons were manufacturing their anti-glamour obelisks. "And this shipment is the big one," Omilaena said from the driver's seat of the diamond star. She still hadn't explained exactly where they were going…
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The match technically continued, but Kai was still trapped in that first moment, trying to understand what he had witnessed. There was no question that the man's arm had transformed into a monstrous limb and for just a moment Kai was convinced that he'd met someone like him. Gradually he accepted that this power was based in chakra, and yet... "Kai, sit down." Zae Zin Nim tugged at his side. "You're unreasonably tall; you're blocking everyone's view." Her words brought him back to himself and he sat down…
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"It's been difficult." The elven couple sat morosely, the man with an arm wrapped around his wife but fearful himself. "A lot our family has moved west to Crescilor," she continued, "but we have our roots here. And we can't just abandon our shop..." They had finally found some elves willing to talk in the next city, so all three of them stood in the small shop. These two weren't fighters of any kind, just tinsmiths with glamours that barely made them stick out. Omilaena had been taking the lead, sitting…
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Kai knew that he didn't have much experience as a world traveler, so he thought he might be ignorant, but he couldn't help but compare the Commonwealth of Traebor to the Krysal city states. A week into their explorations, he was beginning to see how he was both right and wrong. Both were nations dominated by pure personal interest, without much of a sense of patriotism. On the other hand, Krysali were generally more loyal to their city state, whereas the Commonwealth seemed to be proud of its shared…
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Once the elves left them, Kai was again stranded in a completely unknown foreign land. He couldn't have called the Elven Wilds home, but the wastes were at least familiar. Now they were allegedly in the northern part of the the Coiled Empire, which was a riot of colors. Trees with red and purple foliage seemed common, almost like it would have been for autumn at home, but there seemed to be no rhyme or reason to the color here. They'd left the elves behind completely to make their early preparations,…
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