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The discomfort is immediate. As my senses return, a sharp pain pierces my chest. I try to figure out what’s going on.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlraCjIeTu5
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“Oh, he is awake!” a man shouts on my left, riding on a strange horse I have never seen before.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHA0acNaFWy
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feeling the subtle bumping sensation, I realise that I am also on one of those horse243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnENCEgjjWX
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In front of me is a man with a broad back but short stature, its Warzheil.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6cLvuuu5b0
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“Where….” I try to speak but a sharp pain shoots up from my chest.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu9LpwyPiQ7
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“Lad, finally you are awake! I can’t thank the ancients enough. I though I almost lost you back there.” He says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAP9eeWCS5U
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“what….?” The pain surges up again, as if needles were stuck in my lungs.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHsSboNWQNh
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“Don’t speak, you were hit in the chest. It’s a miracle that you are still alive.” He says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovj6tr3AMo
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“Food….” I say as I force to speak, thinking I would heal if I absorb.
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Warzhiel hands me a fruit, I absorb it, but apart from supressing the hunger, it does nothing.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAd4Q5QiCBp
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“Wondering what happened ,right? That’s the first thing I tried too.” Warzheil says on which I nod.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX5iIUO9zdH
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“Jortheus?....” I question with the low wind. So it doesn’t hurt me.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGfIH7fck6R
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“Dead---a feat for real! Boast about it later though.” Warzheil says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRui9Ajbkw
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“What you both talking about under the breath?” Kade inquires.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqmGdPJxlv
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Warzheil ignores him, and continues “This is Kade and the hunters, They are my town folk. We’re heading back—Sil will take care of you.”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtkUEQx6hwl
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I nod slowly as a greeting on which Kade nods back in approval.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIaOUpHi5sK
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“Nice to meet you Mister, Uh—Ronin. Man you look like someone pulled a Dragon Slayer out of the grave.” He says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOw3gcYuktP
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My left arm is now back to normal too.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8NZBsFzi2g
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I am disappointed by myself. I should have been able to figured it out from that strange smell during our fight During the fight that was burning my lungs , that it was poison.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKZjeJiwsW
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“Town is around horizon, Don’t move around too much or your wound may open up.” Warzheil orders me.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡccdJIeaS1W
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I grunt back with a light nod.
I see the town approach after a few minutes while Warzheil continues his talks.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlTbS2Q6mbX
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“I am surprised though, Kade. Our hunt crazed princess isn’t hunting these days?” Warzheil asks243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXYnGVM4PU6
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“Oh---that…. A few days ago, a merchant stopped by with latest new from holy kingdom, he spoke of some paladins hearing about this rumour, “Drax the almighty god of skies and fire had fallen at hands of mortal Zamba.” I swear, Even the gods are a prey to mortals jokes these days. But that upset her, ruining her mood probably.” Kade replies243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMXHIjd46Vb
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Warzheil almost freezes up, hesitant. We know the truth, but I fear what might happen if she finds out.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2daezbRbFH
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Before anyone could notice his grim expression I push him lightly, snapping him out of it.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYLAD7iyg0W
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“O-Oh, yeah, people talk when drunk with booze or money.” He said
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“You seemed lost just now, did something happen? And what’s his story? We can’t let a half demon into the village and you already knew that right? You were the one who suggested the rule. I would kill him on sight if not for you” Kade says, sounding almost unwelcoming of me.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ723xFFfXnl
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I try to speak but Warzheil saves me the trouble.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPmUzkY2bBI
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“You are taking this Lad lightly. My forge was taken over by goblins and the lich. Heck even the devil was there.” Warzheil tries to sound all proud. As if I was his son.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76uNiW1xol
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“No shit? Stop with your bad jokes oldman. You just don’t have it in you.” Kade says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtsJzG1UMB4
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“You doubt me? It seems like you need a taste of my hammer.” Warzheil says softly while he cherishes his hammer while closing his eyes as he speaks and quickly turns one eye open, aimed at Kade as if transferring the image of him getting beaten right into his mind.
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Warzheil explains all events leading up to us reaching the forge, and disguising my ability being an artifact to not give away too much info.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuo8QK2JZzB
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“Oh! That explains why Bangru couldn’t feel his mana around him? He can block magic with his artifact, huh? Where did he find such a good artifact, let me use it someday” he requests.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHqU6zUE4fL
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“He has his story, but that’s his to tell.”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfaLbfBV1Oh
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“I really liked the story though, I would love to hear more about it.” Wyran the young hunter says
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Warzheil doesn’t tell about the demon lord, Ethis or my absorption abilities.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxAnPf4lAlO
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“Ok, enough Stories. Look ahead Ronin.” He says, as we enter a big gate with guards and people welcoming us, few notice my arm and shoot anxious looks. I look ahead with all the strength I could muster. I see two figures who stand out even in the crowd.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN7KpOjNiAA
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“Our hunters have returned with their hunt!” An elven woman speaks, besides her is a girl with a mask on her face, but just looking at her tells me she must be quite a looker, her hair blonde, like gold shining in flame. Dressed like a princess.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxxYEPxoZMx
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She Stands out, so she must be drax’s daughter.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1t8QiYpbN3
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I can barely process all this, as I fight to keep awake.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOs1zFzxIm0
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Everyone is Cheering, some welcoming their sons from Kade’s group.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxvMNyDpyUV
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“Kade, another weak hunt?” Sil asks looking at the meagre stock of hunt and herbs.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdvRCWZXW4d
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“The hunt have migrated. Alpha grazier herd has left almost no herb to be found in the plains.” Kade explains with disappointment on his face.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdAmOYmzYb0
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“At this rate we may need to move from here.” Sil whispers enough for Kade and all of us to hear.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09fZohGJnx
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Warzheil gets off the horse, helping me down from it. It still stings to move even an inch, but I brave through it.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9oYbdZaPah
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I couldn’t care what others though of me before, but now, a thought spirals in my head.
What would Gloria think of her Father’s God? This starts to eat at my mind.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGyhJd6ArE
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“Sil, this is no time for celebration or grief, my friend here is gravely injured.” Warzheil says with urgence.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRggNiu3b5
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“A friend? Apart from Drax? Finally you learned something new, huh? Don’t worry, a medium grade healing potion will get him back to top form in no time.” She says without glimpsing at me.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT1mqCS6K0U
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“Medusa’s poison, Sil” Warzheil almost hisses.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ4ngOBHExu
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Sil stiffens, I notice Gloria flinching upon hearing the words.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK0Ql02waXO
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Sil rushes to check my eyes,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0PAhkuaO7Z
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“What’s with your left eye?” She mumbles “And---By the heavens!”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2J7mmLto9
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She suddenly lifts my shirt I want to step back but if I do…, Sil moves away, stumbling back as she catches a sight of my skin.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqkRu7v7grW
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“Who let this man walk?! Get a stretcher immediately!” Sil yells at some of the hunters who rush into action.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5hipfup49K
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She steps back near Warzheil “What is this? A demon? A Human? A monster? How- how is he alive?” Sil says but Warzheil interrupts.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIudYrKdDb
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“HE—Is my friend. Who put his LIFE on line to save my ass thrice already. I owe him big, and if I fail to help him?!. I will cut my beard, break these hammers and live the life of a hermit.” Warzheil yells
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There is a pause as everyone look at me, at this point all I can see is a contrast of black and white from my right eye and my left eye feels like the world is going all jelly mode, wobbly.
I want to ask for help, maybe it can fasten the process, but my injury and Gloria’s presence hold me back.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnKu63wGLOu
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This Strange Pride of mine will someday be my downfall, but its all I have left.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdQMhT1ec4
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“Ok, I will help him. But how is he even alive? First of all, he look like a mutant. He is unlike any I have seen, a mix of bone demon and human--yet Alive.”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNkZZrSiieb
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“Second, the poison that can petrify every cell of blood demons has reached his head and yet he is somehow alive.” She adds243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgSNcXZFl8p
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“And that?!” She asks pointing at the blade hanging behind Warzheil, The blade that the demon lord used on me.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡApbUi7h2dz
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“Is that the Ramoon Blade?! As I remember, the demon Lord should have had it!” Gloria’s voice floats through the air as she answers Sil’s question,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡecZ3QxqyfX
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Her voice is sweet soothing, a remedy to my mind which feels like it’s about to dive in depths of the abyss.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQo47fAHfFw
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“It’s a long story, but first we need to treat him.”
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“Right now?… fine! I was in….” Warzheil speaks but I can no longer hear,243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLBqb7mne0b
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What happened? All I hear is a slow thumping of my own pulse, it is slowing down even more, I am starting to lose my sight.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQDfJrWPFPS
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I- can’t Lose consciousness Here!243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd9YypgBOEX
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I fail to resist the drift of my consciousness, it feels good, floating, no pain in the body, in the empty space again, how long have I been here?243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ45jEa47c8R
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“Giving up already? That’s what I though.”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZdCKGQAhJ
“You think you have suffered enough?!”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxZAfWPHYtB
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“Breaking your code?” My own voices eco, as if around me. It feels strange but I feel a fire ignite in me.
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Gloria’s sharp eyes flicked over Ronin—his tattered form, the raw exhaustion written across his stance. There was something wrong. A man in his condition should be trembling, should be struggling to keep upright. Yet, there he stood, not relaxed, but poised. Like a blade left in its sheath, edge unseen but present nonetheless.
She crossed her arms, not out of indifference, but to keep her hands from fidgeting. He was an enigma. And Gloria hated enigmas.
But there was something haunting about him, she notices a dullness in Ronin’s eyes as if Staring into the abyss. She slowly and hesitantly walks up to Ronin, waves her hand a little.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmT3MeQBI9X
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Her suspicion turns into concern as she swings it harder in front of his eyes, the light in his left eye had disappeared, Warzheil and Sil are still in an argument but Warzheil notices gloria.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTCNoeIP4E
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Gloria gently pokes Ronin—no response, then she puts her index finger under his nose---no breath.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeDas3Ha21o
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Her breath heavy“ Oh no…..Oldzheil…He-He passed away?!”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vG8dMLrj6
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“What? While Standing?” Sil says in disbelief covering her mouth with a grim expression.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHAiZbdiov
Gloria slowly steps back, her sight never leaving ronin’s unfazed face.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSxHVESZ7u
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Warzheil rushed to check Ronin.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOjhfZPsBx
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“Good Lad! Tell me This is just a prank you are playing on us.! ” trying to calm himself, maintaining a smile on his face.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3fGRBLlQqX
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He doesn’t find a pulse, No heart beat even after putting his ears on Ronin’s chest. Nothing. Warzheil’s pulse gets quicker243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1uhrsjWMU
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“Dear….He—is gone.” Sil says with a sympathetic expression.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHlGKLSCDS
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“Gone?!” Warzheil snaps with anger. “I TOLD you one God.Damn.Thing!, Give urgent treatment to the man!”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhmLzkhiUIw
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“You were the one who suggested the rule to….”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaxUNPRZssg
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“You would follow RULES when a man is suffering silently Infront of you?! I made Rules to save people not to let them DIE!” he roars243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjKyAiiXWoO
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Losing strength in his feet and his moral hurt, he falls on his knees.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFFaLLhRUAG
“I came here in hopes of helping the Him. Oh good lad forgive me, I failed you!.”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSkQH5N7vF
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“Dear I, I---” Sil knees down to console Warzheil243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhN6fdfVpd2
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“Never had I met such a broken yet humble man, so reliable, Just wishing for a peaceful life, yet in face of cruel fate, he suffered till his last breath. He never asked for anything of me. Even after I suggested the plan that might get us killed, even after getting him mixed in a mess of my own, he never abandoned me. Even though we were strangers.”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6k2vGknEIS
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In the darkness of my mind I see it turning to me, the big figure I saw at the end of the empty space when I was teleported in this world. But the voices around me mocked me, pitied me. Have I been so weak? I feel a jolt of energy in my left eye and slowly my Vision returns.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0zH0CE07p
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I see that I am still standing. A wet sensation drips onto my unshaved moustache. I slide my hand under my nose and notice that it’s blood but its darker in colour, it turns into grey and into cement like powder.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznKFoQ7xoI
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I look with my almost blurry vision and see Warzheil is on one knee, one hammer near his right and one on his left, crying. Why is the old man crying? Was I sleeping while standing?243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfgdaU7XRiJ
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Sil is trying to console him.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxmPFA3Qz9d
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Gloria feels a chill as she see Ronin—who she thought dead, slowly turns his eyes towards her, she almost yells in fear but puts her hand on her mask, trying to compose herself, the hunters next to her yell and stumble back looking at him243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ128AqDT0Dm
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I still feel like my ears are under water. Sil and Warzheil looks at me and have an expression of shock and horror.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqpRgLwnixa
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Sil is in disbelief. It wasn’t the state of him that unsettled her—it was the way he carried it. A broken man should look lost, hollow. But there was something in his gaze, too smooth for someone who had just crawled back from the edge of death.
Her people were watching. Trust was a currency here, and she had little to spare. Taking him in meant betting on a ghost. But leaving him out here? That might be a mistake she couldn’t afford.
“Quick, take him to my mansion, I will treat him.” Her voice was steady, but her fingers twitched at her side before she relaxed them. It was a small hesitation. One she hoped no one noticed.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2waoKDnest
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Suddenly I feel like someone is forcing me, I lack strength to resist.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVnzCP2j8Q
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The next thing I know is lying on the stretcher, then in a room. I feel pain and hear my own growns occasionally before blacking out.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ865k8pyGe7
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I see glimpses of things happening, my wound seemed big.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYD7BuSiPkx
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I finally wake up. Trying to figure things out I hear Warzheil speaking to someone, I recognise that voice, its gloria.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡivna3pWxW2
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“What is he Oldzheil?” Gloria asks243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJNJT9YB8c5
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“He is a Hitman. There is much to discuss. So lets all meet him first, then we can discuss more tomorrow when he is rested up. The drug ‘s effect should soon be fading.” Warzheil says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLUvBuHUvcm
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“What even is he Oldzheil? Sil had to give her half a bag full of pain dampeners and sleep herbs to make him unconscious while she treated him,” Kade’s voice joins in.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3d8QxVkWZO
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“He isn’t a demon. Don’t ask anything else, I just want to see the lad as soon as Sil gets here.” Warzheil says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKQ8X4iCCQs
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“When I check his pulse!. He wasn’t breathing and was certainly dead, but then suddenly he came back. Without use of potion or magic. He is not human either, I don’t sense mana, nor do I sense any other kind of energy from him. How can a being like him even exist.” Gloria asks, disbelief in her voice.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJeHs6MW8x
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“What?” I whisper to myself.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRw4HBvVIl
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“I was---dead? then I wasn’t sleeping?” My mind rushed more than my pulse, which had now stabilised. I can now think straight.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy6NAOVAk5W
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“The lad truly has his ancestors blood running in him like he said.” Warzheil says.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKiXeq76lZe
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“Ancestors?” Kade asks243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPmAav4QJca
“Finally you are here Sil.” Warzheil says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCfZhKgXl3
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“I had to prepare this meal in a hurry, so don’t complain.” She says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRUzSNYjYQy
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The door opens, I slide my eyes gently to look at them. Sil enters from behind with some food.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgtV6fPZz3
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“Veg food just like you said he liked.” She says looking briefly at Warzheil with smile before returning to me.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYXMUPPrxaR
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“Are you feeling well now, Ronin?” She asks me with a caring look.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJQIXPm6t34
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I nod slowly.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM68VOlYrrY
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“Even a high dragon would struggle against poison of such rarity, yet you survived it. I have many questions for you Ronin, do you think you have the strength to talk? Lets start with names.” She asks243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvHVgm6A3yH
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“I am Sil Thundersmith, wife of this old geezer here. You and kade have already met. And this on my left, well, she is Lord Drax’s only child, Gloria.” She says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDLavqIluq8
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I muster the strength before finally speaking, powering through the pain which is much cope able now.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDDSMr5xylX
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“I am Shar Rohiez, for the longest I was known as ‘Ronin’. I can still feel weak, I can feel tremours in my body just by sitting up straight why is that?” I ask243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKgEdlpjnHO
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“That’s natural, your body just underwent a surgery, I had to pump your heart to clean the blood by almost draining your blood, then using lot of food to make you heal. It was a close call.” she explains243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCtnIw1Ymgz
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“My husband said you saved his life on various occasions. But he didn’t tell us the details. I would like you to answer questions related to that.” Sil says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgNt5D736nk
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“Sil, don’t force the lad, he just woke up!” Warzheil gives an uneasy suggestion.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOiHYqFyZ1q
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“You stay quite old geezer. For all we know he could be demon lord’s spy. I have heard they are so skilled that they would be among you and you wouldn’t know. Although even I highly suspect that.” Sil replies.
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“You are impossible!… fine, I will talk instead. But I will be rough. And not here, let the lad rest.” He suggests
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“Fine! Its not like I was going to stab ‘Your Lad’ if he didn’t want to answer me.” Sil replies243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAUilm6C32h
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“That’s…it? I thought you guys were suspicious of me.” I ask243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNdPtM5zFn6
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“Aww, don’t sweat it little one, we all know what you just went through. Anyone in your position would want some time alone. Here, eat some food. I will get what information I want from this dwarf here.” She says smiling at Warzheil in a scary way.
“gah, fine. But lad….” Warzheil says “Eat and Rest up, I will show you around town tomorrow. Take you to my new forge even!”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRk6J76rtMf
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“Stop acting like my mom” I say to Warzheil243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aJVViwfdP
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Warzheil chuckles as they all start going out of the room except Gloria.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm8xL60fqUW
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“Gloria?....” Sil asks243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRGxMYR4OQ
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“Grandma Sil, you go on ahead, I will wash the dishes once he is finished eating the food.” She says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZh9vwU3BUs
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After a pause, Sil sighs and agrees.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrH5BapsA44
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After a few seconds, the bustling room dies in silence.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnAX83gp9I5
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I feel all kinds of anxieties. 243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkeGLQLixQf
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“Eat up. The food will become cold.” Gloria says which startles me.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpnw0lIcsnm
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I do as I say, not thinking too much---yeah that helps a lot, I just need to focus on the food and its aroma. Although a bit bland to my taste just from the looks of it.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU4SERYco1j
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At least this way I can avoid her probing eyes.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVDdyak76Fw
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My fingers twitched. Weak. Shaking.
I lifted my hands, staring at the unfamiliar frailty. The callouses were still there, the old scars from battles past, but they felt like relics—a strength that I no longer had.
I curled my fingers, expecting resistance, the usual tension of muscle coiled and ready. Instead, my grip faltered, my knuckles barely tightening before the tremor returned.
Pathetic.
Memory clawed at the edges of my mind—my hands, steady as steel, cutting through flesh and bone. I had stood against monsters, men, and things that blurred the line between both.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8nCqXXyGXE
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But Now?
The body remembers what the mind does not want to accept, and it was no longer my ally.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjavO593b77
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A frustration boils up as my face distorts, but I try to control my emotions as I tighten my jaw.
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Questions rose in my head, will I ever be normal again?, I just wake up over my death bed? What have I become?243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnGsIYaGvgF
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At times like these I asked myself…. Are these questions you know answer to? If no then why worry? And it works like a charm, I pick up the loaf of bread on the table of food besides me, eat it slowly.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3HXVi3GL1S
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As I eat, I can’t help but feel uncomfortable.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgn2iDdEtUJ
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She has been staring at me for so long and her aura is so crazy its making me feel dizzy, I wish I had my mask, but Warzheil must have taken it off my face and stored it in his pocket.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhsmYLeVgRZ
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I try to pick up the bowl of soup with my right hand, but my fingers twitch uncontrollably. My grip fails me—again. A tremor runs through my arm, subtle but maddening.
Before I can spill it, two warm, fair hands reach out to steady the bowl—Gloria's. She doesn’t say anything at first, just holds it there, letting me adjust. Her touch is calm, practiced, like she’s done this before.
I exhale a frustrated sigh, forcing a crooked smile.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡofxmz1LmFx
“Oh—thanks.”
She doesn’t respond right away. Instead, she watches me with those sharp eyes of hers—only now, the edge is dulled by something else. Curiosity? Concern?
Gloria leans in just slightly, her voice barely above a whisper.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrEgqGItS6P
“You always this quiet?”
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She waited, arms crossed, expecting… something. A reply, a reaction. Ronin gave her nothing.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtFapCOzGvN
After a beat, she huffed a laugh. “Alright, I’ll take that as a yes.”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9HR5qRwCtq
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“My name is---” she adds243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBaovvOSF5
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“I know.” I interrupt her243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAPlL1nxcek
“Huh?” she says in a short exhale with slight confusion. I take big sips of soup to finish it faster243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERFnWkGH0x
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“Drax’s Daughter—Gloria, right?.” I say243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡouOP937WVV
“That’s Lord Drax for you” she says with a hint of anger in her voice, obviously she would expect respect for her father who was a god.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxJezALUUQH
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“Apologies, a slip of memory…. I meant Lord Drax. So should I be honoured to be drinking from hands of a goddess?” I ask243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtrJdTb94r9
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“I am a demi-human, not a complete god. And you look around my age too, so no need to be formal.” she giggles243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdW6dYfJAhS
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So she really doesn’t know about Ethis being her mom.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4wdVjtobdU
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“Blood of the gods runs through you nonetheless.” I say243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoEUGf3cKbu
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She laughs softly “Yeah, you can say that.”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXyoOUbLhGr
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“What about you? You look demi-human yourself.” She asks
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“I happened to have an accident with a deadly demon. He tried to take over my body--but failed, leaving my body like this.” I said243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtQe9a219k
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“Oh, that’s harsh,” she says, rising as she picks up the bowl and sets it on the plate near me.
She pauses. Just for a second. Then her gaze flicks to me—sharp, thoughtful. “You should rest. Your body needs healing. You’ll be as good as new in two days.”
I give a short nod. “Oh, sure. Thanks for helping me.”
“No need.” She exhales, as if weighing something. Then, instead of leaving, she tilts her head slightly. “You know… most people don’t just stand after being hit with Medusa’s venom.”
She’s fishing.
I say nothing.
Gloria doesn’t push, but she lingers, arms crossed. “It should’ve locked up your body—petrified your limbs at the very least. But you stood there. Even moved.”
I meet her eyes but offer nothing.
She waits. For a beat. Maybe two. Then she sighs, shaking her head with a small smile. “Right. The silent type.”
She picks up the dishes but doesn’t leave just yet. “I wanted to ask more, but once I get caught in chats, I’ll forget to wash the dishes—and the last thing I want is to make Sil angry.”
This time, she leaves.
“At last… a moment’s peace.” As I let the thought let me drive, I hear a growl. I am still hungry.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkkhnTPCRzA
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I see a tree outside the window. I walk up to it, and look around, there are lots of trees here but people will notice it. There is a big thick vine too, maybe I can…..243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPUuVTJUwDh
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I feel satisfied after the absorbing the vine, my body has started to feel better already, my muscles coil up. I clench my fist and it stops shaking like it did. There is a mirror in the room to. Its been long since I saw my face.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ22x4IyNRi3
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my hair is very well maintained, as if someone gave me a hair cut. Maybe it was Sil, I will need to thank her later.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpkp7JmvAbI
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As the old men said, Now I can sleep like a horse seller!243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiFjWKDTzcp
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I lie down on the bed, its comfy, compared to sleeping on rough ground, enough to fit me.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAf7vSqArnN
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Before I know it, I am drifting away into sleep.
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Warzheil and Sil along with Kade are talking in the kitchen.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLF62Y9Avj0
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“You know how much I hate mutants!” Sil spits243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xns1Trzfr
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“I am telling you, He is human!” Warzheil yells back243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP6OxFm92Qk
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“Do not shout in the house geezer. Let me ask this then.” She continues “WHY the hell Does he look like that? And even if we put aside the fact that he is mutant, why is his heart on the left side instead of right? A human’s heart is on right!”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvfnv0O6IWN
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“You….!” he sneers in anger
“Had it not been you. I would have personally seen to it, that he died even more painful death!” Sil says in a serious tone.
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“Wait, both of you, whether we like it or not that guy is our guest. So tone down a little, will ya? And oldman, you cannot keep us in the dark, spill it already.” Kade insists243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAcLcOuimtK
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“Now you have done it HAG!”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Q8etlMgLX
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Sil gasps “HAG?!”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcWFuyeXO72
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“I thought it would be too much for you all but now you are begging for it, fine hear me--According to what I know, Geolard tried taking over his body…. “ Warzheil jogs his memory, but everyone one is shocked243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc6tQ7VRsnc
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“Wait, who? Surely you do not mean….” Sil almost shouts but Warzheil interrupts her.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTInvxIdcmb
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“Yes, I mean it exactly. GEOLARD, the heavenly Demon, who fought for all races when gods were after each other’s blood for heaven’s throne. Drax told me he and Geolard once fought side by side against a big threat to our world.” He says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMuZtgBJ9U
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”But that isn’t even the crazy part. The more I will tell you the more you will understand the weight of your words earlier.”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVXAC6iFMMo
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“So you are telling us that, ‘that’ man we are housing is Geolard?” kade says as his hand clutches a small knife.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKTFUmGQs7Y
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Sil notices Gloria.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVNmG3iT5VE
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“Gloria stop standing there, you have hear it anyway, come join us as we hear this old geezer tell fairy tales” Sil says.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8iALF8oYxk
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“Make yourselves comfortable kids, this is tale of a legend in making. So, Don’t jump to conclusions.” Warzheil replies243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFv2LlrN46a
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“Geolard must have thought he had caught a prey, but it turned into his grave and someone else’s power. He failed due to Ronin’s strange left eye.”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUOWhILEa8x
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“H-he, killed the demon lord that my father told me fairy tales about?” Gloria hesitates under her mask.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQhiSOOd6J
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“That’s just the beginning. He saved me from goblins……..” Warzheil explains everything that happened till how they got out of the forge.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRsb3MKDnnl
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“Wait, Ava, The Light borne Hero, said to be have a body given by goddess Ethis is his Sister? How?” Gloria asks243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuRZE4i9hSP
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“He told me its complicated.” Warzheil says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSmLPZpAsh
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“Even if we believe that, it doesn’t explain why you have Ramoon blade and why he was poisoned with….” Sil asks but Warzheil interrupts her again243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzi2HlaZA9s
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“I.AM. getting to that part. Now, I know how impossible and crazy I am about to sound. But I can swear on my beard that what I am bout to tell you is true and I am a living witness.” Warzheil warns, as he takes a deep breath.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkaJoXsF1nG
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“You surely saw the lights flash down from heavens and whispers of gods yesterday, right?”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6cZJwisyiH
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“You mean the light that appears when heroes kill the demon lord?.....” Sil says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUsqHyLd9HF
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But then there is silence, But at this moment silence is the loudest speaker as Sil grows uneasy as if it clicked to her.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzZ5DpshPkf
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Kade is so shocked his jaw hangs with disbelief.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3wtBtgGWkb
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“Yeah, I saw it too, what of it? Are you suggesting that he…..Wait, He?!” Gloria asks in disbelief, realising a moment later.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfjDc9r8V9V
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“So, if my memory serves me well, someone here was talking big about killing the man, but now you know, if he was our enemy, he would have slain you even in that state of his.” Warzheil says with a smug. As if praising Ronin was like praising Himself.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2Gn86FC2e
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“By the Ancients” Sil supports her head “A human, turned monster. possesses an artifact that nullifies magic to some extent. A body that heals before another injury can be inflicted. And brother of one of the heroes?” Sil says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr1oH8XAz8p
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“Wait, then why did the demon lord’s weakness not apply on him if he killed him?” Kade asks243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8VVbhsD0im
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“I have my theories, but the one that clicks is his left eye. Second maybe that his artifact is not affected by the hero and demon system.” Warzheil says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJPqMjAuWM
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Ronin is an anomaly in this world, unaffected by its rules. Warzheil know it, but hides it as it may lead to gloria finding out about her mother and potentially even Drax’s death.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡitcOggrqAX
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“Ok, that’s it for today, I need to process all this before morning, and I feel sleepy. I will let you off the hook this time dear.” Sil says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1k39NBKyOi
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Warzheil nods “ and Umm..., Forgive me for raising my voice earlier.” Warzheil says with a sad expression243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCYqTfxVedY
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“Oh, don’t worry old bones, you did what any man would do for someone they care about, maybe I was just jealous that you never got this angry for me.” She says243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7qxkrW54HA
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“Ahem… kids, you should sleep too.” Warzheil coughs hiding his embarrassment.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuKaP8KJtyq
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And so, everyone goes to sleep.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDr1TzjYvGK
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Gloria closes her room’s door, and falls on her bed flat on her face as she clutches her pillow.243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGpQTqRs4Lh
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“A human who is so strong he killed Geolard and Jortheus? I knew he was not ordinary the moment I saw him. ”243Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdSoFaFfcDH
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“Father used to tell me, that demon lords are strong and that Geolard was one of the strongest. I really want to see how strong He who defeated them is.” Gloria as she drifts into sleep.
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