Sophia Martinez
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“Are you going with them?” Lana didn’t let the fear and hesitation appear in her voice. By now, she had learned how Tauron’s bond worked, and she wouldn’t risk influencing his decision. Although their first delivery would take another week to get here, the tribe had invited Tauron to go to the Sandine’s camp. The elder Beastman had accepted their offer, and technically, any further exchange would be their concern. However, if the tribe doesn’t exchange the weapons with the Sandines, the…-
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Pride. That’s what kept most independent tribes alive through centuries of persecution and onslaught by either the Kingdom or their fellow Beastkin. Too much of it might bury an entire civilization due to its inability to change and evolve. Though too little would certainly dissuade them from even standing up against oppression in the first place. For good or bad, pride was the only thing that allowed the bull tribe to survive the decimation of dozens of tribes. However, the same pride prevented them…
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Year 5, Summer, Second Month, Fourth Week Under the scorching sun, a shadow blinked through the endless sand sea, sometimes unnoticeable but visible to those who looked carefully. The shadow moved at high speed, ignoring all obstacles. Stones, dunes, quicksand, and the eventual beasts, would at most earn a diversion from her. Samia was tired of the desert, which wasn’t considered a true desert according to her gattered information. If the “true” desert was even drier and hotter than this, how…
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Tael woke up with a splitting headache, barely processing what was happening around him. He tried to stand up but realized he was tied. After failing to rip the vines off, he started to focus on his surroundings. Strangely, he couldn’t remember what happened before he lost conscience, but his current situation was self-explanatory. He counted five soldiers also tied around him, though there could be more outside of his sight’s reach. While the archer went through ideas of how they could survive and…
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Ten minutes later, she finally saw the tower. But, sadly, only destruction waited around it. The torn-up tents confirmed the Council's suspicions. However, instead of approaching, Sania took a moment to do the standard checkings. The scanning didn’t find any targets, which made her relieved and concerned at the same time. She wasn’t the warmest person in AK, but that didn’t mean she wanted her comrades to die. Even with the locator’s result, Sania approached the camp carefully, paying attention…
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“Their communicator is active, but that only means it wasn’t destroyed…” Karl continued to play to odds on his mind while the other Councilors panicked in their own ways. Lew and the two foreign elders apparently kept their cool, but that wasn’t carelessness, only their training guiding their response. The Alchemist didn’t want to accept that they couldn’t do anything besides waiting and praying, so he uselessly asked something he already knew. “How fast can Sania get to them?” Lew…
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Year 5, Summer, Second Month, Second Week An arrow traveled through the tall trees, almost scratching the trunks on its side, but otherwise, unhindered. The deer’s eyes shift quickly, trying to locate the potential threat, but the arrow was already on it. The magically sharpened metal met little resistance as it carved the beast’s head. Unsurprisingly, instead of mourning their fallen companion, the two remaining beasts instinctively sprinted in the opposite direction. The approaching hunter…
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Year 5, Summer, First Month, Third Week. “I’m not gonna pay you anything, your ungrateful bastard…” Mason didn’t try to evade the punch as he knew by experience that it would only make the other party beat him more. Fortunately, the Adventurer left after knocking him down and didn’t pursue the matter any longer. Two weeks after arriving at AP, Mason decided to do the craziest thing he could think of, make a group of Adventurers mad and abandon his Kingdom to work on a hamlet in the middle…
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Year 5, Summer, First Month, Third Week. Said calmly sipped through her tea while appreciating the colorful view. The secretary sitting across the exquisite stone table impatiently shifted on his chair to demonstrate that he was waiting for her permission to speak. Ignoring him, she graciously placed the cup on the table and took a deep breath. The fragrances perfectly completed the lingering aftertaste of the herbal tea, first something refreshing, then sweet. Finally, the smell hid even a fruity scent.…
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Year 5, Summer, First Month, Third Week. Two weeks and three LQ wind crystals, that’s what the shadow spent to get to the Southern Oasis, more than 800 kilometers from AP. Actually, she could have gone faster if she had time to get used to the wind booster. Fortunately, this was fast enough since the wind Army’s flag was still hanging over the eastern barracks. The Oasis wasn’t what Samia expected, the descriptions she got from the orphans painted a paradise in the middle of a sand sea, but in…
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