Sarah Davis
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Rayakan was flatter than Monskon City, so Kai wasn't able to instinctually navigate his way to the upper class section. Instead of large defensive walls, the city seemed to be divided into neighborhoods differentiated by nothing but architecture. As he got out of the rough wooden housing around the docks he began to see more stone buildings. Not rough stone like he knew, but every house fancily dressed with elaborate curling stonework. The most important people in the city still managed to lord it over…-
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Since he'd fallen asleep in his pants, Kai simply pulled on his tunic and grabbed his shoes on the way down. It looked like Zae Zin Nim would sleep straight through the shouting, despite its growing volume. As he leapt down the stairs, he could hear it getting even worse. Half-way to the crowd, he barely remembered to drink one of his new Class potions. Not a moment too late, because when he hit the bottom of the stairs, he saw chaos in the main room. There was a whole mob of hunters, some dressed as…
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The next morning, they were both still alive. Kai was shocked at how refreshed he felt and decided he had the Aquagorgon to thank. No one had attacked, Zae Zin Nim was breathing peacefully, they had been successful... and he really needed to piss. Once nature's interruptions had been taken care of, Kai considered his next steps. Taking care of Zae Zin Nim had been his highest priority before, so the question now was how to balance it. She hadn't bled more during the night, so he hoped that her condition…
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As the water gates into Rayakan opened, Kai barely saw them. He caught brief glimpses of majestic architecture, a bustling port, and grand statues of hunters past, but they didn't matter. His attention was entirely focused on the woman lying lifelessly in his arms. Ever since her final exertion, Zae Zin Nim had shown no signs of consciousness. If he hadn't caught her, she would have fallen into the river and drowned. Her condition was clearly worse than before, but she didn't even cough, just oozed black…
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Kai nearly spoke too late: the crystal spear was already plummeting and he was too far away to intercept it. But Zae Zin Nim heard him and instantly snapped into action, leaping and meeting it with a palm strike. The crystal spun into the distance, shedding a rainbow of shards as it broke apart. And, on that beautiful note, everything went to hell. The Krysali mercenary drew back in shock, but the knight didn't waste a heartbeat. He was already overhead, swinging his sword to cut Zae Zin Nim in half. Kai…
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If they'd had time, Kai would have looked toward Zae Zin Nim, or asked Razzagah questions to figure out if he was even fighting on the right side. But there were a lot of armed men and women staring at him, and when they attacked, he had no choice but to fight for his life. A man with a Spellslinger Class tried to attack first. He drew on his mana much too slowly: Kai leapt forward and kicked him in the chest before he could strike. To his shock, the man's breastplate crumpled and he went flying back,…
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Kai made sure to keep his expression neutral and show no weaknesses, but his entire view of Razzagah shifted after the revelation of his clan. Not every Lantrian was corrupt. He knew that. That didn't mean he was going to accept the word of Razzagah Lantrian when he had absolutely no proof of what he said about the clan politics in the city. As they continued along their way, Kai made sure to talk to the guards who had been hired earlier. Some of them resented him, but the majority were open to talking to…
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Kai's body felt shockingly light as he ran, so he didn't have as long to examine the battle as he expected. He made out three heavy wagons, overloaded with goods. They had minimal fortifications, and the guards around them were shockingly weak, just rated 20 on average. There were several lizard monsters menacing the legs of the horses, but the majority of the threats seemed to be bat-like monsters swooping overhead. Monster: Bat Threat: Alpha > Monster: Lizard Threat: Alpha > Neither type was…
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Instead of following the river, Kai determined that the quickest way south was to cut through one of the last true wastelands before southern Goralia became lush. Even the wastes weren't that forbidding, with a marked lack of monsters and much healthier trees than he was used to. But after several days, he realized just how weak the ambient mana was. He hadn't thought about it that way, before doing so much cultivation. Mana didn't permeate the air like qi barely did, but it did fundamentally flow through…
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Zae Zin Nim did not like mana cultivation. She did not like it at all. She especially disliked the fact that she kept thinking about it as "mana cultivation" even though she should have known better. In fact, mana was proving to be far from the inferior version of qi that she had always been taught. Approaching it calmly accomplished little and all her mental discipline needed to shift gears as if she was on a radically different path of cultivation. She gritted her teeth and tried to channel all of her…
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