Sarah Davis
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What followed were some of the most grueling days of Kai's life. Not the closest to death, not the tensest, not the roughest, but grueling. They needed to be constantly alert for threats that, when they came, arrived with deadly force. The bone-deep weariness made it easy to sleep, except that at any moment he might be woken up because his abilities were needed against the newest threat. Small fish like the crimson one that had effortlessly killed the kraken proved to be one of the most common threats.…-
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"Do we have no fruit stores left?" Zae Zin Nim asked. "I would have sworn on my cultivation that we had more." "We need to conserve them," Omilaena said as she forked more fish onto her plate. "Kai might be healthy just eating monsters, but we'll get sick if we don't balance our diets." "This is supposed to be preparation for a great risk. Is this not the time to break out the stores?" "Nope, have some more fish." The three of them were eating all of their food that might spoil before their entry into…
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In another week, Kai could see the Blood Current on the horizon. He'd expected the name was due to the threat or the lives lost there, but in the distance he could actually see the waves grow increasingly red. Neither Zae Zin Nim nor Omilaena knew why they were red, so they approached with increasing apprehension. But first, he needed to finish his preparations. Even though their goal was to never enter the water while riding the Blood Current, things could always go wrong and they needed a fallback.…
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Constantly pouring qi into the ship was a decent sort of training, but after enough hours at the wheel, Kai eventually got bored. He wasn't going to break any major barriers with just endurance training, especially since Behemoth's Heart seemed to keep him from getting tired. If they wanted to face all the opponents coming for them, they needed far greater power. Not that his other training was making great strides. Even after two weeks at sea, not to mention the battle over Yulthens, Kai had yet to gain…
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The ship bounced across the ocean's surface, its crystalline prow smashing into waves as they pushed it harder, faster than it should have been safe to ride. And Kai, moving before he could think about what he was doing, leapt over the side into the crashing waves. Three things hit him in quick succession. First he felt the impact of the water's surface, then once he plunged underneath, the metal cable around his waist tugged him backward. The cable was all that kept him from being left behind, because…
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As the trees blew ever more violently, Jaminob reluctantly approached with his cutter held high. He would most likely be fine unless he awakened one of the true chakra-bearing trees. Those could squash humans like bugs, but they only roamed in the deepest bowels of the forest. He wasn't sure why the divine forests had become more dangerous, he only knew that they had been getting worse for his entire life. They were the heart of the Flaeren Dominion's power, but also a terrible risk for the entire nation.…
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When the furious hunger was finally sated, Kai had returned to himself. No more burning eyes or dark breath flooding from his mouth... even his teeth seemed to have returned to normal when he ran his tongue over them. His shirt and half his pants had been shredded, but that was his usual condition after a battle. Yet his memories of the past time were cloudy, as if choked by the very darkness he'd been breathing. He didn't think that he'd hurt anyone on his side, but he had many memories of…
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Omilaena's fight with Boreas had danced above the roofs of Yulthens as they tested one another. Her opponent had proved shockingly flexible and overflowed with seemingly endless qi, allowing him to make use of what would normally be desperation tactics over and over again. She had evaded injury by a careful ranged strategy, wearing him down one poison needle at a time. Both of them paused as a new force shook the city. Kai burst through a nearby building and she immediately knew that something was wrong.…
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The pain was distant, ephemeral. Kai's mind focused entirely on the monstrous power within him and the answer that it contained. When he'd come to Yulthens, he'd hoped to acquire dragon's breath, but fate had spurned him again. He had fought past it and sought his own power, but in doing so he'd abandoned that original goal. Dragon flame was a monstrous power, different from mana or qi, and that was why the silver flames hurt him so much despite all his defenses. Another stream of it poured over him. New…
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If it had been Ren Ziq Quen alone, Zae Zin Nim would have done her best to fight him to the bitter end. Seeing Yurwa and the others retreating to the tower, about to be crushed by the stone, had finally driven her to take a stand. She had to give this fight everything she had. But they had only fought for a few minutes before Boreas appeared, floating on crystals that appeared to be embedded in his body. His qi might be derived from crystals, and he made no attempt to coordinate with Ren Ziq Quen, but he…
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