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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEGfKsW2PQu
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“Oh, he is awake!” a man shouts on my left, riding on a strange horse I have never seen before.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7iBDISJGii
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feeling the subtle bumping sensation, I realise that I am also on one of those horse717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡClbthVRlTi
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In front of me is a man with a broad back but short stature, its Warzheil.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm3F8mJi1Gz
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“Where….” I try to speak but a sharp pain shoots up from my chest.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuR44TtfMz9
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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 says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoY128Qt5xv
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“what….?” The pain surges up again, as if needles were stuck in my lungs.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb6TApp0PcE
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What’s he talking about?717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgkhgDNY9id
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“Don’t speak, you were hit in the chest. It’s a miracle that you are still alive.” He says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9oOQ7nNW1
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqon0QPLxYX
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“Wondering what happened ,right? That’s the first thing I tried too.” Warzheil says on which I nod.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkOEjeIRgD
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“Jortheus?....” I question with the low wind. So it doesn’t hurt me.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbny8o4ucJz
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“Dead---a feat for real! Boast about it later though.” Warzheil says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ldwDQKvF9
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“What you both talking about under the breath?” Kade inquires.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhqRaNtaxLx
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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.”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxL1PHNj0L8
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I nod slowly as a greeting on which Kade nods back in approval.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKxVSmHCfPB
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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 says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxVcyLrmYhl
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My left arm is now back to normal too.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMaqoVCKBSJ
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXDC2oG8NE8
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“Town is around horizon, Don’t move around too much or your wound may open up.” Warzheil orders me.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl12PwVMbIY
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeHvInfEjt7
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“I am surprised though, Kade. Our hunt crazed princess isn’t hunting these days?” Warzheil asks717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6ZPpwTgDs
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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 replies717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ3s1BOJ0bz
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Warzheil almost freezes up, hesitant. We know the truth, but I fear what might happen if she finds out.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJeOZOyabd
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Before anyone could notice his grim expression I push him lightly, snapping him out of it.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn6QxN1rjRk
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBk90YsEjx
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I try to speak but Warzheil saves me the trouble.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPyLtrZFy9o
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkoeC8S8q5s
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“No shit? Stop with your bad jokes oldman. You just don’t have it in you.” Kade says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOVCWIGYqbj
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2xfvV0OICF
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKvL14Y3zb0
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“He has his story, but that’s his to tell.”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSNOqxJjfa4
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsKwHeIm6SW
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLzb3fIAUz8
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6FX7TF4NsL
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She Stands out, so she must be drax’s daughter.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLowMV2YHa5
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I can barely process all this, as I fight to keep awake.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwQidULULJ
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Everyone is Cheering, some welcoming their sons from Kade’s group.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4Gv6sSlv2
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“Kade, another weak hunt?” Sil asks looking at the meagre stock of hunt and herbs.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCFPwAfiOz
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlLw8RwFKPe
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxcR9cauXqi
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTGFSMaPITN
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3K5UcETgl
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“Sil, this is no time for celebration or grief, my friend here is gravely injured.” Warzheil says with urgence.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1dTWYmI5W
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IXjyNINDO
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“Medusa’s poison, Sil” Warzheil almost hisses.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLK5KVfsR4
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Sil stiffens, I notice Gloria flinching upon hearing the words.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfBvtJ7AzA
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Sil rushes to check my eyes,717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxjnQSPr45
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“What’s with your left eye?” She mumbles “And---By the heavens!”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcNKRHgh1k
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiEOzpNLbwO
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“Who let this man walk?! Get a stretcher immediately!” Sil yells at some of the hunters who rush into action.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEdI1uSyRqU
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzk8IG7gVcY
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfXuiJLn3Vp
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This Strange Pride of mine will someday be my downfall, but its all I have left.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC4sP6f2tcT
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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.”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaNbg4ocniI
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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 adds717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6FmfUZgW4
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“And that?!” She asks pointing at the blade hanging behind Warzheil, The blade that the demon lord used on me.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26wW9RPCL0
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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,717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzJ7wL47kho
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj3AAywrFJ4
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“It’s a long story, but first we need to treat him.”
“I cannot risk it without knowing, I am the chief here and you know it.” Sil says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡexflvoxuvz
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“Right now?… fine! I was in….” Warzheil speaks but I can no longer hear,717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9Tg4AGPJ4
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUq9fU1fVUU
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I- can’t Lose consciousness Here!717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg7kYUZ8AaE
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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?717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2CXrFflIhj
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“Giving up already? That’s what I though.”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqInwMq8Pe0
“You think you have suffered enough?!”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1CUdu740i5
“Going to leave your contracts?”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHYNbkhP7nZ
“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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7swPpgh8a4
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs10vpFZ0D9
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Gloria gently pokes Ronin—no response, then she puts her index finger under his nose---no breath.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMvivLm0P2
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Her breath heavy“ Oh no…..Oldzheil…He-He passed away?!”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSo3W41NwzC
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“What? While Standing?” Sil says in disbelief covering her mouth with a grim expression.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKAq72PCfUs
Gloria slowly steps back, her sight never leaving ronin’s unfazed face.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡloJEjvc3Fx
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Warzheil rushed to check Ronin.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7dWraQAX8
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWkA0IBW7y
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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 quicker717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeYG0DmjsmK
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“Dear….He—is gone.” Sil says with a sympathetic expression.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaA4y8sWEW6
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“Gone?!” Warzheil snaps with anger. “I TOLD you one God.Damn.Thing!, Give urgent treatment to the man!”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ45PxHuLqDl
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“You were the one who suggested the rule to….”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ggY2kEWm9
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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 roars717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJctwSHJG19
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Losing strength in his feet and his moral hurt, he falls on his knees.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIuPfwSvhSp
“I came here in hopes of helping the Him. Oh good lad forgive me, I failed you!.”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmQskEM7ZJb
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“Dear I, I---” Sil knees down to console Warzheil717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBoVVMvuWr
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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.”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZbedLH5ZFs
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKSBqhFxcD4
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6IFgM70xGQ
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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?717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYP8AmDmoNm
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Sil is trying to console him.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2LH1i0W3b
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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 him717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplG7ExUjzB
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1FKBxiSrm
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjLxT33UuZ
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Suddenly I feel like someone is forcing me, I lack strength to resist.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuHfpWedKQT
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ6Vj2yW2ec
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I see glimpses of things happening, my wound seemed big.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZI4sipLF20
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwtLK8adp1U
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“What is he Oldzheil?” Gloria asks717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡybuvFjvsFR
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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 says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzWG0npDrVM
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZQK6ULwxi3
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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 says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2cEFAldJV
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBOxrajvTGL
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“What?” I whisper to myself.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAY2FmhZejX
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJk1PfFsf0J
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“The lad truly has his ancestors blood running in him like he said.” Warzheil says.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwXjXgAu0An
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“Ancestors?” Kade asks717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGpfO1weVPd
“Finally you are here Sil.” Warzheil says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm6njqLxSpa
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“I had to prepare this meal in a hurry, so don’t complain.” She says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNLrVsCB4K
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The door opens, I slide my eyes gently to look at them. Sil enters from behind with some food.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7SVW8IZbQA
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“Veg food just like you said he liked.” She says looking briefly at Warzheil with smile before returning to me.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzzeNkA5WUH
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“Are you feeling well now, Ronin?” She asks me with a caring look.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfknZz2wG8J
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I nod slowly.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Id8YRPR0e
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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 asks717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41mNw5w3RQ
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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 says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8nlpLEZU4n
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I muster the strength before finally speaking, powering through the pain which is much cope able now.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs48fEtRZFv
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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 ask717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLRtDc8xhe
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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 explains717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRA1oHo4cbI
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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 says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqKBSOnKPqT
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“Sil, don’t force the lad, he just woke up!” Warzheil gives an uneasy suggestion.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtNzlhwuBYo
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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 replies717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4SN89XPrGU
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“That’s…it? I thought you guys were suspicious of me.” I ask717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe45tUe0lGP
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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!”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhE6K5yTrKB
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“Stop acting like my mom” I say to Warzheil717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaospRNy1AA
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Warzheil chuckles as they all start going out of the room except Gloria.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfYRxnkmxcR
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“Gloria?....” Sil asks717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVAgppl8g2t
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“Grandma Sil, you go on ahead, I will wash the dishes once he is finished eating the food.” She says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtj0PVGxxHO
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After a pause, Sil sighs and agrees.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQp6RECMwEg
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After a few seconds, the bustling room dies in silence.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0rpuzM086q
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I feel all kinds of anxieties. 717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEWhsniYyN8
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“Eat up. The food will become cold.” Gloria says which startles me.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxy8tWV736w
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTWjLspoCb
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At least this way I can avoid her probing eyes.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOLVRD5K9c
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6ZaXhfIZp
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But Now?
The body remembers what the mind does not want to accept, and it was no longer my ally.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbzFzM3bLCO
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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?717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVkg13n8JWE
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP8wJV8zr8M
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As I eat, I can’t help but feel uncomfortable.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc8jRdl0iTU
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQo9LV9a1lz
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa4XDR4imtv
“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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBazFH59M3A
“You always this quiet?”
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She waited, arms crossed, expecting… something. A reply, a reaction. Ronin gave her nothing.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2PZkYTPr9V
After a beat, she huffed a laugh. “Alright, I’ll take that as a yes.”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA9zLWPqWfx
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“My name is---” she adds717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3mM7TZZdO
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“I know.” I interrupt her717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCcSm0p9VRD
“Huh?” she says in a short exhale with slight confusion. I take big sips of soup to finish it faster717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR3vNSgLWdU
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“Drax’s Daughter—Gloria, right?.” I say717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY4CMRRheNI
“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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1CjDaS2URq
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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 ask717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVIRxCRhKMH
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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 giggles717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOwcAC72OgJ
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So she really doesn’t know about Ethis being her mom.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9y185qJVO
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“Blood of the gods runs through you nonetheless.” I say717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlKEila62dZ
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She laughs softly “Yeah, you can say that.”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdNa7RpExts
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“What about you? You look demi-human yourself.” She asks
Poor girl, I would not want to see her sad when she finds out her Father’s fate. And every time I think this, a haunting question arises, from within me. What will she think when she finds out that her father’s god is me.?717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJykzGG9mSR
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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 said717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDr2ZsJvPuD
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKBx5SjMpXV
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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…..717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7y6mHpxQB
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiWWlujvuq6
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpCF7eXrHeq
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As the old men said, Now I can sleep like a horse seller!717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiy2VWiNcXn
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I lie down on the bed, its comfy, compared to sleeping on rough ground, enough to fit me.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi5gBqLG1ts
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV9WN7TjYfo
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“You know how much I hate mutants!” Sil spits717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwM35tfJLN3
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“I am telling you, He is human!” Warzheil yells back717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJlGfQd9VYJ
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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!”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeEEE4UzB9L
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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.
Gloria is listening quietly from outside the kitchen.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfRSK94QnYf
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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 insists717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmuODOWChW5
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“Now you have done it HAG!”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOTnIEiJQrz
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Sil gasps “HAG?!”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIEefDAmbUx
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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 shocked717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdMaI3ju5Cb
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“Wait, who? Surely you do not mean….” Sil almost shouts but Warzheil interrupts her.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGBsHxRSpKX
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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 says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfxkLLB65M
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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.”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaLv82sQqjQ
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JZg3iNfly
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Sil notices Gloria.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfDL8Wc33be
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQWpvQ9i0k
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“Make yourselves comfortable kids, this is tale of a legend in making. So, Don’t jump to conclusions.” Warzheil replies717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4F0xgl8dv1
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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.”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIbaIxCOuzs
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“H-he, killed the demon lord that my father told me fairy tales about?” Gloria hesitates under her mask.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjfJa5GHjNi
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPnNx4QRgr6
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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 asks717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡffkQxJCme2
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“He told me its complicated.” Warzheil says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl5AXsJNXbu
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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 again717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKD2booVC6I
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhlvCxtIbBi
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“You surely saw the lights flash down from heavens and whispers of gods yesterday, right?”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL9VjTh2MeR
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“You mean the light that appears when heroes kill the demon lord?.....” Sil says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbo713MwDJh
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCvUGRexBn
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Kade is so shocked his jaw hangs with disbelief.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jT1Rw9pSL
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMnt0uwgySZ
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡntlw6Mk26s
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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 says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ07uLFdl1pm
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“Wait, then why did the demon lord’s weakness not apply on him if he killed him?” Kade asks717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIFMbhSQBVa
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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 says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHP671QQ9t
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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.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqRw4FlWcE8
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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 says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBOX0HEo2hI
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Warzheil nods “ and Umm..., Forgive me for raising my voice earlier.” Warzheil says with a sad expression717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgWXhi7Lqwv
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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 says717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcTExnXTkuz
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“Ahem… kids, you should sleep too.” Warzheil coughs hiding his embarrassment.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyUh3N315RL
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And so, everyone goes to sleep.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk8kRmB2Kh4
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Gloria closes her room’s door, and falls on her bed flat on her face as she clutches her pillow.717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLOiK2nThZG
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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. ”717Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGV7Kc81Kbd
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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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