Sarah Thomas
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"It took you a while to give up." At the same moment, as Fen finally emerged from within the trees, Mark stopped rolling a stick over a fire with a sausage nailed on top. Turning his head to face his student, the middle-aged man looked at the young arcanist's apprentice with a mixture of astonishment and disappointment. "Give up?" Fen's mind was still immersed in the words and images that the monster's queen showed to him. Raising his head at his master, he could only look the middle-aged man in the…-
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"What I can see in your element, is certainly disturbing. Born to the naturals like me, by forcing yourself to control the flow, you are no different from a child lost in the dark, unwilling to light the torch and just trying to manoeuvre by spreading its hands." Looking at the situation normally, Fen could still perfectly perceive everything that was happening around him. From the bear-like beast instantly falling down on its knees and lowering its head, through the still motionless fire-elemental, all…
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"Say what?" With all the surprises and changes to the monsters' reaction, Fen finally allowed his hope of resolving this conflict peacefully to take a root in his soul, quickly leading to yet another downfall of his morale. Instead of letting him go, they were about to bring him to their queen's face? Unless those beings developed some kind of advanced society where the leader was chosen by a complicated set of heritage laws or some kind of elections, that only meant putting Fen against the strength of…
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Standing firmly on the ground and holding his palm just a hairs width away from the core of the elemental, Fen finally attained the position of strength. If he didn't hold on to this trump card of his for so long, there was no way that the elemental would ever allow him to get so close, not to speak about actually pulling him closer by itself! "What do you want?!" Falling on all fours, the bear-like beast spoke up, while clearly preparing for an all-out attack. From the way its hind legs dug into the…
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Fen didn't have any trouble putting on a terrified look on his face. In fact, he didn't even have to act! Imprisoned in this unbreakable cage of fire, he was now entirely at the mercy of those monsters! "What should we do with him?" Pulling the young man closer, the fire spirit turned itself to its companion with the question. At the same time, the frame of its thicker flames that closely resembled the look of human's body seemed to turn even more detailed, as if the more the young man looked at it, the…
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Flee or fight. That's what normal human would have to decide in such situation. It was a natural instinct of living beings, aimed to preserve their lives. Yet, for someone who spent as much time in the forest as Fen did, there was a third option. Hide. From the intense throbbing in his guts, Fen knew that he had absolutely no chance against this something that was approaching him. Even back when he was escaping from the inquisitor, his body failed to notice the monster that pinned him down. If the…
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'Wait, that's impossible…' For Draconis descendants, it would make sense for their fire to turn hotter after absorbing more of it than what they produced themselves. After all, once their core would be created, it would turn into an entity internally separated from the rest of Draconis authority, making it either incredibly hard or even impossible for them to infuse more fire into their core. But for him? For a descendant of the Phoenix? To bring back the comparison that Draconis used, no matter how…
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'Isn't this exactly the same how my initial attempts to learn my control looked like?' Watching how the spirit's body continued to move away from his fires, Fen could feel his desperation growing. From how he was tasked with bringing only a single core that was supposed to appear once he would assimilate the monster in front of him, and with how there was absolutely no time frame for this task, it wouldn't be surprising if Mark expected him to take a long while to achieve this objective. "If that's the…
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"I think you should be able to guess what we will be doing out in the forest by now." Lightly curving the line of his lips upward, Mark remarked. Before Fen could even have a chance to respond, his teacher stopped. Looking up, the place that the two of them arrived didn't look anywhere different than other spots of the road, besides how it was the nearest point to the city where the line of trees actually met with the side of the road. "I guess something monster related?" It would take someone really…
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"Arcana constructs?" Looking up at the middle-aged man, Fen repeated a part of his last sentence while forming it into a clear question. "Yeah, and from your reaction, I can see that you never heard about it before. That's good." Suddenly, Mark stopped. As he was only following his teacher, Fen copied his action, puzzled about the abrupt change of their pace. Then, Mark suddenly turned up, clutched the young man's shoulders and pulled them tightly together while starting down Fen's face. "Under no…
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