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Drawing Fire to Recover “If I can focus long enough to draw in a little fire power, I’ll recover better than before,” she said. I considered that seriously. “Does it have to be fire?” Cheng Rui asked. His mechanical voice tried to lower itself and failed. Suddenly I was not entirely sure we should be discussing our plan out loud. Then again, what choice did we have? “Could it be something else? Like lasers?” “…Maybe,” Chi Li answered, uncertain. “Lasers don’t last…-
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Covering Them with Everything I Had First, I adjusted the forces acting on myself, reducing friction, weight, and the other factors pinning me down by roughly an order of magnitude. Trying that earlier had not worked. For some reason, it worked now. There was no time to investigate this unexpected blessing. Better to use it while I could. Second, I used Proximal Manipulation to reach behind myself for the thing that might prove useful. The great demon was either too relatively slow to…
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When a Mage Is Forced into Melee Once these demons were no longer limited to throwing explosive fireballs, countering their magic became much harder, Chi Li thought. As a young mage, Chi Li could understand why the invaders did not want their “pets” freely using their power in whatever form they pleased. These demons were far more than beings that could explode and ignore flame. They possessed many troublesome abilities. They could amplify entropy. They could magically interfere with…
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Peril The demon roared in pain and fury, then breathed a mass of green-black flame from its fanged mouth. In an instant, every plant within forty meters died simply from being near that fire. The already churned earth dried, blackened, and withered. I lay at the center of that unnatural blaze, and the creature’s breath hit my stomach like a heavy punch. My skin did not burn with the normal pain of heat. Instead, my lungs felt as if they had been set on fire, and the pain spread rapidly…
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The “Invited” Demons She had watched Cheng Rui go to and from the shopping mall, and she had been keeping track of him throughout the earlier battle as well, just as she had the day before, and the day before that. The idiot had nearly gotten himself killed when he insisted on entering the tunnel with her, simply because his armor could not move properly in such a cramped space. Ever since then, Chi Li had sworn she would never leave him behind again. He was the first person with whom she had…
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A Bitter Fight, Part II Aside from a raised bulge at the point of impact, and perhaps a quarter-centimeter of displacement, the tower was almost completely intact. Then again, a solid steel pillar thick enough to let a large monster sit on top of it was bound to be tough. The demon on top roared threateningly. But since Chi Li had trapped its magic and I was flying beyond its reach, it had no way to retaliate. I gave it the middle finger—and since it was not wearing pants, it was very…
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A Bitter Fight, Part I After dropping Cheng Rui outside the shopping mall, I flew back as fast as I could to the place where we had previously turned the park into a disaster zone. Normally, twenty seconds might not mean much. In a fierce battle, however, one second was more than enough time to be stabbed or shot several times. And we had left Chi Li alone in the middle of hundreds of enemies. Fortunately, the enemy ground forces had not yet recovered from the combination of Cheng Rui’s…
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Emergency Repairs A horde of zombies tumbled down the stairs from the upper level of the shopping mall, the fall doing them almost no real damage. Dozens, then hundreds clawed their way out of the pile of corpses, slowly forming a hideous wall of walking dead. They gnashed and reached, desperate to devour the living. Cheng Rui’s Mark III twin laser turrets tore through these unarmored enemies with ease. The kilowatt-class laser beams were powerful enough to melt through several centimeters of…
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We Had to Split Up For an instant, the world slowed. The fireballs and I seemed to be moving at the pace of marathon runners, while the arrows in flight were almost crawling. Everything around me hung on the edge of stillness. That rare sluggishness gave me a desperately needed sliver of time to think, because fighting the way I usually did clearly was not going to work here. On the nearest stretch of ground in the square, Cheng Rui’s turrets and oversized handguns were pouring laser fire…
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Demons on Chains Details that had once been too small or too fast to notice now stood out sharply. Even with undead and monsters, I could perceive the tiny expressions and muscle tensions that appeared in the instant before they aimed or fired. Because the whole body possessed more inertia than a single limb or finger, those subtle changes were easier to catch. Even monsters had to look at a target before moving or aiming—at least, monsters without extrasensory abilities did. And now I…
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