Sophia Martinez
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Year 2, Spring, First Month, Second Week. “Let’s check this village quickly, I want to get to Eastforge before dusk. This distasteful place isn’t suitable to stay...” The black-armored Fighter said while dismounting. Chief Omero greeted the envoys bowing like he was obliged to do. The leading Guard quickly dismissed his greetings asking him to take them to the central square without wasting time. Omero secretly smiled. ‘Better for them to be in a haste and leave as soon as possible...’…-
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Year 2, Spring, First Month, First Week. In the village central square. Diana was a little disappointed because the number of villagers trying for the hunting team was less than 500. Yesterday, she helped with Karl’s selection and was surprised to see almost everyone trying for the Alchemy team so she thought that at least half of the villagers would try for the team. Unfortunately, the villagers had grown afraid of the beasts, most of the villagers’ horror stories were about being attacked by a…
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Year 2, Spring, First Month, First Week. “To create a magic tool you need three things: First, to comprehend the design of the tool. Second, to gather the magic materials needed. And third, you need to use your spiritual energy to craft the design in the tool.” The crowd listened to Karl attentively, almost all villagers wanted a shot in becoming an Alchemist, even some elders. “Two things are essential for an Alchemist, the ability to comprehend designs and high spiritual energy. Although both…
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Year 2, Spring, First Month, First Week. The meeting with the elders continued, the next important topic was the new village’s organization. Since they would get more free hands, they would need to redistribute the work in the village. Again, Karl reminded them of the need for more resources. For now, their only option for gathering more materials was to expand their hunting parties. At this time, Omero stepped up and offered an organizational plan, even Karl was surprised by the boldness of the…
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Year 2, Spring, First Month, First Week. This year, Caiset would have a lot of free hands, so the Chief proposed a change in the village's organization to guarantee that everyone got something useful to do. Normally, they didn’t have much leeway when dividing the tasks in the village. Since all the adults had to take care of the magic fields and the teens had to work in the village fields, the other tasks had to be done by elders, as best as they could. Previously, Chief Omero couldn’t change…
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Year 1, Winter, Third Month, Fourth Week. In the snowy path leading to the water stream. The team was moving steadily looking for new targets. Despite still having meat, the team decided to hunt for more resources. Surprisingly, Karl wasn’t with them. His work was getting increasingly difficult so he decided to skip the hunt. Fortunately, the team carriers were used to collecting magic materials and extracting the beasts’ blood. The team decided to maintain two ex-carriers solely collecting…
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Year 1, Winter, Third Month, Second Week. Just when the light was disappearing from the sky, the team arrived at the central square dragging a long scaled body. Other kids pointed excitedly from inside their huts while the parents talked with each other making guesses about the dead beast. Chief Omero was relieved to see them returning without missing any members. Diana was also relieved, even staying she felt responsible for the team’s safety, but she also felt a little disappointed because they had…
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Year 1, Winter, Third Month, Second Week. Two weeks quickly passed. Since the villagers could now digest more meat, each feast was using four beasts. Fortunately, conserving the meat wasn’t a problem in winter. However, their meat had ended on yesterday’s feast and soon the team would need to go out hunting... Today, they were meeting with the still bedridden Diana to run some scenarios and tactics. Despite being unable to lead them, she was giving them her full support, even though, she felt sad…
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Year 1, Winter, Second Month, Fourth Week. Today, Diana was restless. She asked the team to gather here to talk about the last hunt. Once they did, she started asking for their forgiveness, but they insisted that anyone would have made the same decision. They agreed that the beasts had unexpected abilities, like being unhindered by snow, dodging the arrows while running and quickly changing their paths. Next time, they would be prepared for it. To clear this, Karl explained that the white wolves…
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Year 1, Winter, Second Month, Third Week. “You should stay still when resting... Diana, you broke bones and if you continue to move they’ll never heal. Or worst, they’ll heal in the wrong way and make you limp forever…” Diana rolled her eyes when she heard the warning that was being repeated countless times for these last three days. Since waking up from the battle, she has been recovering in the community pavilion in the central square. Not moving for three days made Diana feel a little…
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