Sarah Davis
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"I'm sorry that I cannot join you." Zae Zin Nim apologized, then to his shock got down on her knees in the courtyard and put her forehead to the ground. There was no one but the two of them, but he was still stunned to see her lower herself like that. "You were there for me when my cultivation was blocked and I most needed allies. But I can only guide you this far." "Is that why you've gone over everything so many times?" Kai asked. "I don't get why you wouldn't watch." "When you break through to the…-
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Once they had gotten back to Orillia's estate, things should have calmed down, but Zae Zin Nim radiated constant tension. Kai made sure that Orillia had everything she needed and the supplies were secured, then he headed back to their chambers. When he sat down opposite Zae Zin Nim his intention must have been obvious, because she took a deep breath and spoke quietly. "I am even more certain that they were looking for me. They may have been sent to sell goods as a secondary objective, but they'll pursue…
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"Wait, wait, your father?" Kai helped Zae Zin Nim through the back corridors while trying to remember everything she'd said. She'd told him about her family in the past, but it had been a long time ago. "Are you sure it's not a coincidence and they're just trading with Yulthens?" "If they did, it's true that I wouldn't have known," she shook her head sharply, "but it cannot be chance. He knows I went to Deadwaste. Sending a group like this after me would be exactly his usual methods." "But I recall that…
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Despite everything Orillia said, auctions turned out to be boring. Oh, the merchants yelled at one another and gasped at bids, but it was all just merchant infighting. There weren't even that many cultivation items, with many of the lots being dedicated to other items of value that apparently threw themselves in with the new trade from Cloudspire. So far he had only fought two crystalliers to defend Orillia's allies and foiled one poisoning. He'd been immune to weak poisons for a while, but now that he…
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With the dragon craze finally dying down, Kai returned home by carriage. He hadn't received a dragon's blessing, but Behemoth's Heart pumped within his chest and that was more satisfying. Along the way back he finally let himself relax and take time to contemplate his next steps. Technically, he should have been thinking about his cultivation. With his latest payments he had almost 76,000 Goralian Eagles, which felt so close to his goal but was frustratingly far. One or two months of work, depending on…
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For one beautiful second, Kai thought that the flames were filling his soul, then he realized that he was burning alive. The dragon was unleashing a torrent of flame while simultaneously roaring, trying to burn him into a crisp. If not for his Physique he would have already been dead. The raw power bound him in place, so Kai roared back. Instincts deeper than any human intuition told him that he couldn't win this fight, that he was going to burn to a crisp, but he wasn't going to go down accepting his…
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Kai and Graetri fought a proxy battle over the desert for over a month. They never once exchanged blows, for all that they threatened from time to time. Instead they fought over merchants, soldiers, and above all the investigation of dragons. When the first golden dragon had been spotted, Kai had been relieved that it wasn't all a false errand after all. After so long, he was beginning to wonder. From a distance Kai had only seen it arcing overhead, a golden serpent larger than any monster he'd ever seen…
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One week into the alleged dragon hunt and Kai was beginning to understand why it wasn't as exciting as he'd been hoping. Closer to civilization, there were endless crowds milling around, planning to go seek dragons but mostly hoping to get lucky. Out in the desert, it was a lot of sand broken by the occasional problem. So far the work had been difficult without being challenging, at least in the sense he understood. Every day he faced challenges, whether it was hunting down bandits, arguing with…
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Kai wanted to find out more about the golden fire ability that had been used during the match and immediately ran into a problem: everyone wanted to know more. Because he had observed the fight and used advanced spiritual sight on the participants, he actually knew more than most. There were endless rumors, many of them insane, and all kinds of cons based on telling the secret or even teaching the technique itself. After the third person revealed their information to be useless to him, Kai decided to…
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At first when the two Diamond Crystalliers met, Kai was taken aback. Instead of using the abilities he expected, they were fighting hand to hand, exchanging what looked like ordinary blows. Actually, as the melee went on, he felt their movements were too elaborate and acrobatic. Was this entire fight a farce? Just a formality between merchants, or a scheme to manipulate the city? Kai came up with dozens of potential conspiracies as he watched the two women fighting at clearly less than their full…
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