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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrsJ315T8Cc
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“Oh, he is awake!” a man shouts on my left, riding on a strange horse I have never seen before.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvKnxm52pmS
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feeling the subtle bumping sensation, I realise that I am also on one of those horse352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfTRhnJcBo
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In front of me is a man with a broad back but short stature, its Warzheil.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3yVzHzjKZ
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“Where….” I try to speak but a sharp pain shoots up from my chest.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2lvx9rRYWe
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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 says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTQlENbHfy0
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“what….?” The pain surges up again, as if needles were stuck in my lungs.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKI0W14aoul
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What’s he talking about?352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHKFY6ozPL9
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“Don’t speak, you were hit in the chest. It’s a miracle that you are still alive.” He says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEAuKwwgcMX
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl6NzyxblO3
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“Wondering what happened ,right? That’s the first thing I tried too.” Warzheil says on which I nod.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZWexquqtD
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“Jortheus?....” I question with the low wind. So it doesn’t hurt me.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU1Ve2b9Q0D
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“Dead---a feat for real! Boast about it later though.” Warzheil says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqCsWGgfZUp
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“What you both talking about under the breath?” Kade inquires.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3S7690Xwcv
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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.”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36wuSNwtIU
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I nod slowly as a greeting on which Kade nods back in approval.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4twCs2T6eC
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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 says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrF9lcOfM4Q
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My left arm is now back to normal too.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3NffKdJNda
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Di0qImZNO
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“Town is around horizon, Don’t move around too much or your wound may open up.” Warzheil orders me.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM28mG5mfoq
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYsxfmdnVeP
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“I am surprised though, Kade. Our hunt crazed princess isn’t hunting these days?” Warzheil asks352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmniuplraz
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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 replies352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUEaqM87awJ
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Warzheil almost freezes up, hesitant. We know the truth, but I fear what might happen if she finds out.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVN9s9iHT3p
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Before anyone could notice his grim expression I push him lightly, snapping him out of it.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfFn1uAt34C
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxKMzvZPhqW
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I try to speak but Warzheil saves me the trouble.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOu6rbeM95d
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6TlxZYxzZb
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“No shit? Stop with your bad jokes oldman. You just don’t have it in you.” Kade says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyv9jWZdrWb
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpN1ypaq03g
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPrBgCgB4aM
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“He has his story, but that’s his to tell.”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoLkLRQKfI2
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTuDSkZq8QH
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyu99iDEbD
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2b2KPUrbW
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She Stands out, so she must be drax’s daughter.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOUCAnWBK8n
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I can barely process all this, as I fight to keep awake.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoy4skBL3Yv
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Everyone is Cheering, some welcoming their sons from Kade’s group.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJL86mWcFvD
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“Kade, another weak hunt?” Sil asks looking at the meagre stock of hunt and herbs.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJKFLdzt2V7
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkhd7qH4HN
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt7UIQCDLL7
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRh8I5OXVO
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO9EZ1r20wO
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“Sil, this is no time for celebration or grief, my friend here is gravely injured.” Warzheil says with urgence.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPZ2NN2zVq
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBK8tAFpWCC
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“Medusa’s poison, Sil” Warzheil almost hisses.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc67GsxoI8M
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Sil stiffens, I notice Gloria flinching upon hearing the words.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsTPdJvoZO9
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Sil rushes to check my eyes,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡynRcwSTNiZ
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“What’s with your left eye?” She mumbles “And---By the heavens!”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4h1KExGe5F
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrZrfMmGzja
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“Who let this man walk?! Get a stretcher immediately!” Sil yells at some of the hunters who rush into action.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzy0DEUYPy9
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpOwuo4YN2b
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ58AjnKIFox
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This Strange Pride of mine will someday be my downfall, but its all I have left.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQ2BEaXcd4
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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.”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8x4e0sQSoY
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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 adds352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBeo4K5hGHK
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“And that?!” She asks pointing at the blade hanging behind Warzheil, The blade that the demon lord used on me.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3cunQQ6XUZ
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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,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGnyH4wL8t
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCpI3VEVXkq
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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 says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrj3lj5driP
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“Right now?… fine! I was in….” Warzheil speaks but I can no longer hear,352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡneySKbbXoM
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAGLWDzBNLc
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I- can’t Lose consciousness Here!352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPQE6b9ARM
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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?352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgSCyUq9nBi
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“Giving up already? That’s what I though.”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRr81iwO3bC
“You think you have suffered enough?!”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkAlZOF3r4r
“Going to leave your contracts?”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrDYsjnsOKo
“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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUywVRPsSPI
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUCkJ4Z3xXn
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Gloria gently pokes Ronin—no response, then she puts her index finger under his nose---no breath.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqyb5pEarnd
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Her breath heavy“ Oh no…..Oldzheil…He-He passed away?!”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6HIXnmlzDQ
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“What? While Standing?” Sil says in disbelief covering her mouth with a grim expression.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb0pu62wVGe
Gloria slowly steps back, her sight never leaving ronin’s unfazed face.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡACI0YSHDQD
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Warzheil rushed to check Ronin.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6b6oCJMkcO
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKzKe0uF8j1
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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 quicker352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTIdmEwIipC
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“Dear….He—is gone.” Sil says with a sympathetic expression.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡripadEvSTP
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“Gone?!” Warzheil snaps with anger. “I TOLD you one God.Damn.Thing!, Give urgent treatment to the man!”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY0AM161rcM
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“You were the one who suggested the rule to….”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR16C8uxuQH
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“Following ‘RULES’!?” he condemns352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGpVGow9Ck4
“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 roars352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCy3MAi2gvB
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Losing strength in his feet and his moral hurt, he falls on his knees.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVT0mWttc58
“I came here in hopes of helping the Him. Oh good lad forgive me, I failed you!.”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ5TmVWLI3G
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“Dear I, I---” Sil knees down to console Warzheil352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLU5fzPQd39
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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.”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeaT3ZvM5GS
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnCjKyivOo
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3gchilTKD
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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?352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhRiUUMJkRU
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Sil is trying to console him.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgf7kXwMErr
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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 him352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJV8msvL98
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8VfOMwziVB
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtAkED3rZQf
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Suddenly I feel like someone is forcing me, I lack strength to resist.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCaLcNLGlZ
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvlAXZe9r89
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I see glimpses of things happening, my wound seemed big.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu9iV5MLZSF
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3D0uiKR32
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“What is he Oldzheil?” Gloria asks352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2K705qhm37
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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 says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaCSOT6eJSz
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEfF9TuOC2m
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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 says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSJTrwenawL
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcnc1h65zfW
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“What?” I whisper to myself.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiPVpERfpQN
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBzT16uT0lF
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“The lad truly has his ancestors blood running in him like he said.” Warzheil says.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQdw8hGDk2K
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“Ancestors?” Kade asks352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXeskMhwFYt
“Finally you are here Sil.” Warzheil says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvvzNiJn8Ln
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“I had to prepare this meal in a hurry, so don’t complain.” She says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGJg9dWFJ5
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The door opens, I slide my eyes gently to look at them. Sil enters from behind with some food.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUL9P0YuFC1
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“Veg food just like you said he liked.” She says looking briefly at Warzheil with smile before returning to me.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbQUCSBjFH6
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“Are you feeling well now, Ronin?” She asks me with a caring look.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUDsqfruDB
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I nod slowly.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFenPYoz8aa
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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 asks352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrMUVzGKhJQ
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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 says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBeMixSsKMv
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I muster the strength before finally speaking, powering through the pain which is much cope able now.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkpCnARo25s
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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 ask352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc8i5pR9aeG
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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 explains352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Q73EraSu8
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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 says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ51wEGxXvzl
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“Sil, don’t force the lad, he just woke up!” Warzheil gives an uneasy suggestion.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGRSDsjDbD9
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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 replies352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcB6oa9raYF
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“That’s…it? I thought you guys were suspicious of me.” I ask352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWM2C4HtF3x
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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!”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnc9kjrFIh1
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“Stop acting like my mom” I say to Warzheil352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbZ6pzYBWX6
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Warzheil chuckles as they all start going out of the room except Gloria.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbUazFCNdOR
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“Gloria?....” Sil asks352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡseRz5oAUTi
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“Grandma Sil, you go on ahead, I will wash the dishes once he is finished eating the food.” She says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXx6WcIyI43
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After a pause, Sil sighs and agrees.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQVHFCAB1K3
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After a few seconds, the bustling room dies in silence.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNw8025bOPq
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I feel all kinds of anxieties. 352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgGOQoouHwz
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“Eat up. The food will become cold.” Gloria says which startles me.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡed6Qg7bdAl
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWbTB6ZJae
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At least this way I can avoid her probing eyes.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6JnwZSKfT
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDRt3Jt2e7G
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But Now?
The body remembers what the mind does not want to accept, and it was no longer my ally.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRpZ8PWTCSA
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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?352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvTDuPa88ZY
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0f1ZeDuqKY
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As I eat, I can’t help but feel uncomfortable.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4OAoWGeeMs
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC3erouHW8n
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRbQWudBtDS
“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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlsQz7YThce
“You always this quiet?”
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She waited, arms crossed, expecting… something. A reply, a reaction. Ronin gave her nothing.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRjU2mpaD62
After a beat, she huffed a laugh. “Alright, I’ll take that as a yes.”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcm2wLpYEb
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“My name is---” she adds352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZJMIZtXxP
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“I know.” I interrupt her352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpjpnWC5mJb
“Huh?” she says in a short exhale with slight confusion. I take big sips of soup to finish it faster352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFWiJMrjxW
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“Drax’s Daughter—Gloria, right?.” I say352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEz3BA8P2Bt
“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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLI9KnEXICA
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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 ask352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIzrvT7C1xq
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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 giggles352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6KjMBqVVhb
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So she really doesn’t know about Ethis being her mom.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7JJmcpNikz
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“Blood of the gods runs through you nonetheless.” I say352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq7ZUKlF2GF
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She laughs softly “Yeah, you can say that.”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt2n3XaaTkv
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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.?352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMY2c8nrctz
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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 said352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDaLpbl2HSC
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxE1m5Yucpv
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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…..352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDTc1sXR5o
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYYfihANGzj
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14d8S7MxCZ
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As the old men said, Now I can sleep like a horse seller!352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq5zRUHLiqF
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I lie down on the bed, its comfy, compared to sleeping on rough ground, enough to fit me.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLId53S07S8
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYjmUQNfMnq
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“You know how much I hate mutants!” Sil spits352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXWh5HMjG8u
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“I am telling you, He is human!” Warzheil yells back352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ85mrM376WQ
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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!”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgrcCLrXsDA
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyLXTQlyLxT
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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 insists352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPbZPHLNBsO
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“Now you have done it HAG!”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCOFHEbc8WK
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Sil gasps “HAG?!”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5WTiGTs9uC
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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 shocked352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYYpqvIXOr
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“Wait, who? Surely you do not mean….” Sil almost shouts but Warzheil interrupts her.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡycni7iwFx2
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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 says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMzstzORY1U
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Everyone is shocked to352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk1aJlfdR9E
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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.”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobdsWvALdK
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKRvDosOu6
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Sil notices Gloria.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ02zqkKyx5
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvtxZECuWa
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“Make yourselves comfortable kids, this is tale of a legend in making. So, Don’t jump to conclusions.” Warzheil replies352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV0QTHAv1sg
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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.”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU9ioQZConz
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“H-he, killed the demon lord that my father told me fairy tales about?” Gloria hesitates under her mask.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC69Ykcy7Z9
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM026oBEnEO
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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 asks352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpquAgaevqo
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“He told me its complicated.” Warzheil says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4Q6zzcjxJw
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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 again352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVCpnIap7UU
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhHZsgZWGrU
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“You surely saw the lights flash down from heavens and whispers of gods yesterday, right?”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoT00bX6JWk
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“You mean the light that appears when heroes kill the demon lord?.....” Sil says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9WadmroAX7
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJgY85gpKZe
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Kade is so shocked his jaw hangs with disbelief.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Bq7tZkblF
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVhfS10RM2L
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCOh4T4rntV
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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 says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeCB8JkNCFv
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“Wait, then why did the demon lord’s weakness not apply on him if he killed him?” Kade asks352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNju2aY0uCJ
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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 says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnOcLli1UXT
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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.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFDNudigvU8
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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 says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡppoLGJz9J0
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Warzheil nods “ and Umm..., Forgive me for raising my voice earlier.” Warzheil says with a sad expression352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJErKRIGwLO
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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 says352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdp05Fp6Hpt
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“Ahem… kids, you should sleep too.” Warzheil coughs hiding his embarrassment.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdeNqTh6yI
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And so, everyone goes to sleep.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWPVdYLAhy
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Gloria closes her room’s door, and falls on her bed flat on her face as she clutches her pillow.352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbmNIWjF5cb
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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. ”352Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTiXiPQ0uJC
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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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