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Gaunts
Gaunts. Creatures… No, monsters perhaps even more horrifying than shadow assassins. Shadow assassins were merely invisible. Their debilitating scream was problematic, but now that she knew what to expect from it, Alyssa felt like she could shrug it off. Not that she wanted to test their effects again. Aside from that, they weren’t even all that strong. At least, they died through sufficient application of bullets just as easily as any human would. According to both Kasita and the Irulons, nothing…-
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Gathering Storm
Rainwater dripped down the windows of Tzheitza’s potion shop. It wasn’t her first time seeing rain in this new world. One night while traveling to Lyria, she had needed to pitch her tent early. Thankfully, the tent was water proof and kept her and everything she carried dry, though packing it up in the morning hadn’t been all that comfortable. But it had only rained that one evening, providing ample time for her tent to dry over the next night. Still, it was somewhat nostalgic. When younger, she…-
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Further Experiments
Alyssa took a deep breath. “Sorry I snapped at you,” she said after a long moment of holding it. “I’m just a little frustrated. I expected this to be…” “Easy?” Irulon said, handling a glob of dripping… something. Alyssa’s latest failure. The princess didn’t seem concerned in the slightest that whatever it was leaking might be toxic. Rather, she looked at it like she wanted to dissect it. Not that it was living. At least, Alyssa was pretty sure it wasn’t living. Alyssa wasn’t…-
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Fully Prepared
“Alyssa Meadows. Are you prepared?” Staring at the haughty form of Tenebrael, Alyssa had to frown. “This conversation again?” “Conversation?” “Are you prepared to make yourself prepared? That whole thing? We did that last time.” “Yes.” Tenebrael said with a knowing nod of her head. “I recall. But now the context has changed. I am not asking if you are prepared to make preparations. I am asking if you have prepared yourself and are prepared to demonstrate said…-
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French Toast
“What did you think you were doing? Are you insane?” The programmer sat across from Alyssa, looking around with a bleary expression. Three thick slices of French toast sat on the table in front of him, swimming in maple syrup. A dollop of whipped cream had been plopped on top, cradling a single strawberry. To its side, a glass of orange juice stood tall. Condensation on the side of the glass dripped down to a cork coaster protecting the wooden table. Maybe it was a bit late for breakfast foods,…-
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Fractal Vision
Alyssa let out a long sigh at seeing the laboratory entrance sealed off by a smooth mirror. It wasn’t impenetrable. The Irulons made that clear. A gaunt would probably be able to walk through unfettered due to their magic immunity. Certain types of high-rank magic would be able to take it down. Even Desecrate Spells would take it down, though it would apparently take some time. And if someone didn’t have either of those options at hand, breaking down the stone walls wouldn’t be too difficult for…-
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Fractal Mirror
The Royal Observatorium of Demonic, Divine, and Miraculous Phenomena. Alyssa would be lying if she said that she wasn’t nervous. Her life had become so surreal. Angels, alternate worlds, monsters, magic. She had even helped stop a war, or something close enough to it. Sure, the Black Prince would probably have cleared out all the monsters without too much trouble, but the ringleader would have gotten away. And the shadow assassins… Alyssa still wasn’t sure what they were. Some sort of invisible…-
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Formation
Although she had agreed to not do anything that might draw the attention of angels to what they were doing, Irulon was not content to simply sit and watch the panels of the Endless Expanse like they were television channels. She had watched for a while. A good hour, even. Irulon could not see the angels—not even the massive wheel-like ones—but she had been able to see the Throne. Or it’s housing structure. The tall tower that was simply there from every angle. She had commented on the shape of the…-
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Flawed Plans
There was a flaw in Alyssa’s plan. No one was following her. In fact, nobody could follow her. She spent all that time looking over her shoulder. Obviously nobody was going to follow her when she was invisible. If they were even going to follow her in the first place. Nobody had known that she was going to be at the Gobbtop tavern tonight. Tenebrael had dropped her and Jason off only a short distance away. The only people who might have tried to follow her would have been people already in the tavern…-
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Finding Minotaurs
The apophis was… long. Really long. About as long as a freight train… Though given that freight trains could have a variable number of cars, that probably wasn’t a very good descriptor. Regardless, it was far larger than Alyssa would have expected after hearing Rokien’s statement about it being able to fit into a hut. Yet it wouldn’t reach even a quarter of the distance from the monster camp to the city as Brakkt had suggested. It did seem longer than the shed skin, though a bit smaller in…-
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