Sarah Davis
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Growing up, the Frontier elites had always been Kai's greatest goal in life. They were truly the best, standing far above the strongest in any individual nation. More importantly, they were the front line against the monsters of the Frontier, keeping humanity safe. The idea of joining them had been like a dream that could barely be grasped. Since then, he had come a little closer. He'd met several of them, even been saved by their teleportation technique, and technically helped them fight the incursion.…-
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"And the average gold to crystal ratio," Krainuun said, "has risen to almost ninety Eagles per crystal." "Wait, ninety?" Kai had been nodding through their conversation, but that threw him entirely. "Everyone was talking like fifty was unreasonable before." "Ah, but those were peacetime ratios. Even if Krysal isn't engaged in full war, we are seeing wartime values. We've seen this before during particularly bad incursions, conflict with neighbors, or warfare that severely damaged crystal…
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The revolution crumbled beneath her, descending from lofty ideals to chaotic panic. Zae Zin Nim watched from atop a flying crystal, struggling to reconcile her mission objectives with her disgust. Workers in the acid pits from another miserable city state had decided to join the revolution, but they hadn't put in the work to be remotely equal to the forces opposing them. They barely had any acid cultivators worthy of the name and had tried to fight with buckets of acid and even rocks. If they had been…
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With a violent barbarian standing in the background, negotiations proceeded with surprising ease. Kai had met with representatives from the mines, who indeed seemed much better off than the slaves in most other city states. The workers didn't love the merchant nobles, but they were afraid of what the revolutionary army might do if it arrived and didn't want him to overthrow the city. They were more amenable to the real plan. In theory, both sides agreed on a new contract, in which the mine workers would…
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Kai raced across Krysal to another city he hadn't heard of before in a desperate effort to hold everything together. This one was called Teraklis and, in theory, he might be able to make a difference on his own. Merchants had responded to the fall of Slaerta with the reserve that Krainuun had predicted, but none of them had anticipated how many workers would react. The cities that kept their crystal mines and acid pits completely blockaded from the outside world were congratulating themselves on their…
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Kai wasn't frustrated by a single day of celebration, especially because he knew that none of the others would regenerate as fast as he did. Nirka was still recovering from her qi burn and a stomach wound that got infected, but when he checked on her the local healers were taking good care of her. After the feast that night, most got back to work, rebuilding defenses and reorganizing the city. When the celebrations resumed, however, they began to grate on Kai. This was the first act of a revolution, not…
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Witnessing a battle between armies was strange for Zae Zin Nim. In her experience, most conflicts had been decided by duels between cultivators, which struck her as tidier. Maybe formations would be used at times, but not pitched battles like this. She had to admit that most sects on Cloudspire wouldn't have a counter for such an assault, aside from overwhelming power, she just didn't approve of it. But this army was hers, in a strange sense, so she hovered over it and watched as the battle began. Flying…
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Sitting in Romastir, Omilaena was beginning to suspect that everyone else was having all the fun. Oh, there had been an assassination attempt or two and a few little squabbles. Just crystalliers, no attempts to use poison or anything interesting, so she had made them disappear without a trace. Give the others something to wonder about. Everything else was mundane; Krainuun seemed to be enjoying his planning and numbers but there was nothing for her to sink her teeth into. From the news that came in from…
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No matter how many times Zae Zin Nim told herself that life was strange, she came back to that thought. The person she had been a few years ago could never have imagined being here. Traveling across Krysal had given her plenty of time to think about exactly what all this meant. Technically she was cultivating, but she couldn't prevent her mind from considering that she was now leading a peasant uprising. What had seemed absurd when it was just one of Kai's plans was now a concrete reality that would soon…
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"As near as we can determine," Krainuun said, "it began with a worker from New Laeneria who had family in Korostir." They were flying away from Romastir because they'd just picked up Krainuun, but Kai wasn't completely sure where they were going. Hopefully that wasn't symbolic of their entire response to the beginning of war. In any case, he thought that trusting the small bureaucrat was their best bet at a real counter. He'd told them to take three different ships, two being towed behind, so he must have…
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