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The Flow of Blood, Pt 1
Eva and Szereth stood in his lab and pored over the Ra’ventrii armor as it hung suspended in midair. Hanging next to it was a highly translucent holographic readout of all of its statistics and settings.
Though Szereth was deep in the weeds and explaining every stat, Eva found herself unable to concentrate. Part of that was her trait, of course.
But most of it was because of Ledoss. More specifically, his words.
“I think I gotta stop dueling,” she said.
Szereth stopped in mid-explanation, turned to her with a quizzical look on his face, and opened his mouth to protest. But just as he was about to speak, he came to a realization.
Every fight she had with a Reborn had been tough, and it was only go
CeritusOrbisThese next few chapters are gonna be a little meatier than normal. Enjoy!
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Shadows from the gondola above crept across the ground below, not that most Guards or Feds even noticed. They were all focused on the firefight right in front of them.The chaos of the battle meant that all eyes remained on the enemies only meters away from them. The last thing they needed to do was take their eyes off their enemies. Doing so would have incredibly lethal consequences.At the lead gondola, Colviss stood at the prow and watched as the fight below played out before her. She watched as many of the Drogar she had trained fell to their enemies. Their fates had long been sealed, and it was a fact that she had come to terms with. They were all meant to die. Or most of them anyway.It made her wonder why Savoth even paid her to train them. Wasn’t he simply wasting Coin by doing so? It&rsquo
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Ravens of Eternity The Flow of Blood, Pt 5
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Ravens of Eternity The Flow of Blood, Pt 6
Colviss blinked at Miko after her ludicrous statement, and laughed. She found the idea of any child, human or Drogar, having any lethal capacity as pure fantasy. On top of that, Miko’s short, skinny frame didn’t help dispel any ideas regarding human frailty.“You? Annihilate me?” Colviss said. “I figured humans could do better than send their fledgelings to fight. Seems I was wrong.”“And you believe your size makes you powerful?” retorted Miko. “Or perhaps that your age does?”“Of course not. Ra’ventrii is clearly ‘smaller’ than me, but I know what she’s capable of…”“I see. So it appears that you need a demonstration first. I can appreciate requiring scientific
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“Let’s go!” yelled Severas.She raised her blade high in the air and charged in towards the compound gates. Right behind her was Eva, blades drawn and ready for more.Behind her was the mass of Justicars and Security Force personnel, all of whom had run up and helped them mop up the remaining terrorists at the blockade. They all followed the Silver Justicar into the fight with determination etched on their faces.And as they passed through the broken and mangled gate, they saw the chaos in front of them.Teams of Guards and Federation combatants faced off against reams of Chosen. All of the Drogar were armed with knives of various length, while the humans were armed with various batons and sticks they happened to pick up.
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Out in the broken and breached barricade, a small pile of dead Drogar suddenly moved. The topmost corpse fell off the pile, which revealed a barely living one among the rest of the bodies. His armored hand clutched at something - a corpse perhaps - and dragged himself out of the bloody pile. As he wearily climbed out, blood trickled down onto him from the corpses above.The surviving Chosen pulled himself all the way out of the pile, then stood up on shaky legs. His armor had been sliced and mangled and beaten in many spots and barely held together.He quickly reached for his side as it ached with pain. He had been slashed deeply, and was bleeding heavily just above his left hip. Every movement he made caused pain to shoot out of it.As he recovered, he looked around the field of battle before him.
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