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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiGloDFmG6h
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“Oh, he is awake!” a man shouts on my left, riding on a strange horse I have never seen before.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76rv1ZAY87
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feeling the subtle bumping sensation, I realise that I am also on one of those horse238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2BPwbUqA7j
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In front of me is a man with a broad back but short stature, its Warzheil.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYHFQY4VYif
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“Where….” I try to speak but a sharp pain shoots up from my chest.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdAUe7bwqeR
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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 says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPbO1TOT9kN
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“what….?” The pain surges up again, as if needles were stuck in my lungs.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFSo2LBjbRp
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What’s he talking about?238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvMHZA97mQW
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“Don’t speak, you were hit in the chest. It’s a miracle that you are still alive.” He says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdeMAFl8SB
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiE9qO5RQsg
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“Wondering what happened ,right? That’s the first thing I tried too.” Warzheil says on which I nod.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwp58UK921
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“Jortheus?....” I question with the low wind. So it doesn’t hurt me.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZkw8u81DUD
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“Dead---a feat for real! Boast about it later though.” Warzheil says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHCJ6gfmUQq
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“What you both talking about under the breath?” Kade inquires.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh11soafDmZ
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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.”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFxAbJcMHY
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I nod slowly as a greeting on which Kade nods back in approval.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡodPGOP7FNN
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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 says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqx7Er0mhMt
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My left arm is now back to normal too.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRKO8jemkzQ
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX75IAGTtvj
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“Town is around horizon, Don’t move around too much or your wound may open up.” Warzheil orders me.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVk6kaXIv0s
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkSg6ewYsQh
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“I am surprised though, Kade. Our hunt crazed princess isn’t hunting these days?” Warzheil asks238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEzPVjTJtnE
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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 replies238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHA7PNCAoO
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Warzheil almost freezes up, hesitant. We know the truth, but I fear what might happen if she finds out.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYKrCFnUjE3
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Before anyone could notice his grim expression I push him lightly, snapping him out of it.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5wLh0CcfGY
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlPeapj3oBU
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I try to speak but Warzheil saves me the trouble.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS7hKezdOkv
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpyGfCjbU1h
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“No shit? Stop with your bad jokes oldman. You just don’t have it in you.” Kade says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEY66yUmDyX
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07Zm50gaRU
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcz3tmoGeYO
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“He has his story, but that’s his to tell.”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzNdguN60i
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvSBNwRwlC
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydVHon97Is
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGZ2iVKA4R
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She Stands out, so she must be drax’s daughter.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhWowYJQiTs
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I can barely process all this, as I fight to keep awake.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxyHqZEOtez
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Everyone is Cheering, some welcoming their sons from Kade’s group.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vvyQJY4f1
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“Kade, another weak hunt?” Sil asks looking at the meagre stock of hunt and herbs.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡED5JpqvKkQ
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡud36qkKudf
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjIN1nQDxkY
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo8smcNlB69
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm4cSChY77Q
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“Sil, this is no time for celebration or grief, my friend here is gravely injured.” Warzheil says with urgence.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqoROwehAB8
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMMpQrfqb9g
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“Medusa’s poison, Sil” Warzheil almost hisses.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPekImokiFQ
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Sil stiffens, I notice Gloria flinching upon hearing the words.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgerDHBA6Fh
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Sil rushes to check my eyes,238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6TJDNRfSci
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“What’s with your left eye?” She mumbles “And---By the heavens!”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYeKcvkqVba
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6rOJ6mOz5
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“Who let this man walk?! Get a stretcher immediately!” Sil yells at some of the hunters who rush into action.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFAV4MInt6
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGTHN2OSEi0
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn5NvIwuiZd
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This Strange Pride of mine will someday be my downfall, but its all I have left.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCI6JOW5di5
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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.”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcIL0ISygFT
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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 adds238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtL1FeMsQBI
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“And that?!” She asks pointing at the blade hanging behind Warzheil, The blade that the demon lord used on me.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9FONopvOg2
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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,238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMlzFhlF2y
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6nTV9EIdDz
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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,238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQGJwjAf12b
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSCAsBtwUAD
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I- can’t Lose consciousness Here!238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoAA4WA9kRb
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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?238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxiKCU2b2bq
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“Giving up already? That’s what I though.”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ6EI13aBiK
“You think you have suffered enough?!”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxGeq9W5ahE
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2PUqvHVIPb
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIeExSpBFH
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Gloria gently pokes Ronin—no response, then she puts her index finger under his nose---no breath.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjIhf2ObcL5
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Her breath heavy“ Oh no…..Oldzheil…He-He passed away?!”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡduVdVv8ZD4
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“What? While Standing?” Sil says in disbelief covering her mouth with a grim expression.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmYgW9bskE
Gloria slowly steps back, her sight never leaving ronin’s unfazed face.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCvZsrzLQHD
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Warzheil rushed to check Ronin.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEjIfdcAKar
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdblogc3WdN
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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 quicker238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrh1fQ2ymmx
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“Dear….He—is gone.” Sil says with a sympathetic expression.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3928kcbsSg
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“Gone?!” Warzheil snaps with anger. “I TOLD you one God.Damn.Thing!, Give urgent treatment to the man!”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCtmSYFbItq
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“You were the one who suggested the rule to….”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenMACtJtxo
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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 roars238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbJVcajsgaY
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Losing strength in his feet and his moral hurt, he falls on his knees.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1KlG2RUXcG
“I came here in hopes of helping the Him. Oh good lad forgive me, I failed you!.”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM8rpEHcPeA
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“Dear I, I---” Sil knees down to console Warzheil238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvUvMtPy1BF
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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.”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0gY3sqhLYa
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSvEf4ehjIc
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpiB2dTsysQ
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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?238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvK1MSXIEcr
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Sil is trying to console him.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWWNh8EK0T
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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 him238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcsRmuLdnV
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGRgTQYENt2
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXU08vioNdB
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Suddenly I feel like someone is forcing me, I lack strength to resist.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYvysAnM1p4
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYxk8aHY8CK
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I see glimpses of things happening, my wound seemed big.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡND902DChPF
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ5GX22OieW
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“What is he Oldzheil?” Gloria asks238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3bUdXVmEj
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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 says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUW8DLU3e4U
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs9fRrrxQRA
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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 says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyc8I94nDE2
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEo1BTIK3QH
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“What?” I whisper to myself.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlUb7T1W1pN
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7kOayIQZno
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“The lad truly has his ancestors blood running in him like he said.” Warzheil says.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfUyQsHyDN0
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“Ancestors?” Kade asks238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6mdDAs7b3
“Finally you are here Sil.” Warzheil says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMBStqiMKoa
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“I had to prepare this meal in a hurry, so don’t complain.” She says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMthN9Gla1f
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The door opens, I slide my eyes gently to look at them. Sil enters from behind with some food.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZovEF1NyE
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“Veg food just like you said he liked.” She says looking briefly at Warzheil with smile before returning to me.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzQg0FqlH6C
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“Are you feeling well now, Ronin?” She asks me with a caring look.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhHbh1ruYb8
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I nod slowly.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6pmAngwyfq
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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 asks238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj33HeqRqSS
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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 says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoVN9DfP8Xk
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I muster the strength before finally speaking, powering through the pain which is much cope able now.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5SX07HBzwF
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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 ask238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1LnJyU66fW
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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 explains238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvwMCAydcK4
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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 says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3BBwQlTPBJ
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“Sil, don’t force the lad, he just woke up!” Warzheil gives an uneasy suggestion.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLon9ItaqzA
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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 replies238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMyW4I0Hj3A
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“That’s…it? I thought you guys were suspicious of me.” I ask238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEcz8p1InoJ
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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!”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF1Mjn7AsKS
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“Stop acting like my mom” I say to Warzheil238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQehEffwCeT
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Warzheil chuckles as they all start going out of the room except Gloria.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU36q3VPTtP
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“Gloria?....” Sil asks238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx9C38jZFOC
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“Grandma Sil, you go on ahead, I will wash the dishes once he is finished eating the food.” She says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwXWPxvGnx
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After a pause, Sil sighs and agrees.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAMirl5Hp5Z
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After a few seconds, the bustling room dies in silence.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSHiB2gp6P
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I feel all kinds of anxieties. 238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtztba61YC
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“Eat up. The food will become cold.” Gloria says which startles me.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHamodCOsYR
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3pAd0Tn4AO
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At least this way I can avoid her probing eyes.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNBSC3HS3Ro
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnsANo3xlGT
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But Now?
The body remembers what the mind does not want to accept, and it was no longer my ally.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7dSic2hBFx
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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?238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVPvjWydtyr
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfu7r8xmu0i
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As I eat, I can’t help but feel uncomfortable.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5XVzdAuh1A
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPF02nGcp9
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrY89gACCoA
“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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrXEGie85zx
“You always this quiet?”
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She waited, arms crossed, expecting… something. A reply, a reaction. Ronin gave her nothing.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxSvHUty9d
After a beat, she huffed a laugh. “Alright, I’ll take that as a yes.”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwqtoDYt20r
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“My name is---” she adds238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbOBIaKWZhZ
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“I know.” I interrupt her238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZV30lLJlu
“Huh?” she says in a short exhale with slight confusion. I take big sips of soup to finish it faster238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJohp0MCbhg
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“Drax’s Daughter—Gloria, right?.” I say238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoRFrmYjncM
“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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡINQTxPlDAp
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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 ask238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡihlPXbAfep
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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 giggles238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkyLmgUv9wq
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So she really doesn’t know about Ethis being her mom.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSuWU06Ptes
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“Blood of the gods runs through you nonetheless.” I say238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsaYxZvoQeN
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She laughs softly “Yeah, you can say that.”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1SpgLrUnBR
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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 said238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxn07E4qlre
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMn3vY45QIr
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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…..238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHY40MhjyOC
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsnhsGhlXON
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡosSTmdMUkL
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As the old men said, Now I can sleep like a horse seller!238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy15QXNC4kk
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I lie down on the bed, its comfy, compared to sleeping on rough ground, enough to fit me.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2r7ulyHP7q
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSqXBhNjW7n
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“You know how much I hate mutants!” Sil spits238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2vpylnsP6
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“I am telling you, He is human!” Warzheil yells back238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbQa2dsnvts
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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!”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcL2jrSnpdC
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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 insists238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhuf3imc0h
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“Now you have done it HAG!”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUVTABYV5R3
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Sil gasps “HAG?!”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIXJkVpmZW
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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 shocked238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfCGcFfFtTI
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“Wait, who? Surely you do not mean….” Sil almost shouts but Warzheil interrupts her.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3wD5mTTT5U
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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 says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXmcd7E0NLa
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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.”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8xVx4sqC5G
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBqcQZakTK9
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Sil notices Gloria.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGKea2y259m
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡohRFcRCBJH
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“Make yourselves comfortable kids, this is tale of a legend in making. So, Don’t jump to conclusions.” Warzheil replies238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMQmcU46ox4
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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.”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlmzZAm0E1I
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“H-he, killed the demon lord that my father told me fairy tales about?” Gloria hesitates under her mask.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZotfHCAQPy
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFKJENfM5rH
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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 asks238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFBLcYtGiVB
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“He told me its complicated.” Warzheil says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEe65Zes4PR
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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 again238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgPMHSArU9p
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNy56SLiWR
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“You surely saw the lights flash down from heavens and whispers of gods yesterday, right?”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwceNmvG4xh
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“You mean the light that appears when heroes kill the demon lord?.....” Sil says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpCPKWklAMO
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3X5ARRDQeH
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Kade is so shocked his jaw hangs with disbelief.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwtIbGsTLh
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1jNfMfP1v
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwqO0KNlEzJ
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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 says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gn9Deo7KK
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“Wait, then why did the demon lord’s weakness not apply on him if he killed him?” Kade asks238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZFQ346PIW
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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 says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh0JIVWmRcN
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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.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrVGucWCD6
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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 says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtUbHG8jqO9
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Warzheil nods “ and Umm..., Forgive me for raising my voice earlier.” Warzheil says with a sad expression238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhmH7p9dab
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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 says238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHgyyNe94YE
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“Ahem… kids, you should sleep too.” Warzheil coughs hiding his embarrassment.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCiHVpcWLZ6
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And so, everyone goes to sleep.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeh2X99tVu2
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Gloria closes her room’s door, and falls on her bed flat on her face as she clutches her pillow.238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1aI7ftDS4S
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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. ”238Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIdqTi1d8Hx
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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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