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There Are Always Surrenderists I pulled the knife out. I had not sensed it until after it pierced my skin. Fortunately, it only went in an inch or two before lodging in muscle and failing to go any deeper. Of course it hurt. But the wound healed. And the ornate steel knife crumbled into ash in my hand. It was like that movie I had seen when I was ten. The one with the orcs. “Seriously? Could you try being a little creative?” I shouted at the still-invisible attacker. Cheng Rui…-
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Reunion After Five Days “Okay,” I whispered. I forced back the tears that were about to fall and followed my two friends into the sewer. Cheng Rui seemed to be struggling beneath the weight of the weapon in his hands, so as we moved into the dark drainage tunnel, I used my free hand to take it from him. “Thanks. It’s light enough when I’m in armor, but the armor can’t fit into the sewer,” the boy said. He gave me a tentative smile. Then he noticed the state of my battle-damaged…
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At Last, I Found Them Dozens of arrows fell around me. Their bone-white tips exploded on impact, bursting into sprays of blazing sparks. Asphalt, concrete, parked cars—whatever the arrows struck, they burned through in seconds, even eating holes into metal. Have you ever seen those videos online of people playing around with thermite? It was like that, except the burning, spark-spitting parts stuck to whatever they hit like glue. I learned this the hard way when one arrow struck my left…
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Squeezing the Enemy into a Ball My back smashed through the brick outer wall of a motel, then through cheap interior plasterboard, then through a sofa and an old cathode-ray television, until I finally stopped against a solid mass of concrete and rebar. I staggered to my feet, shook my head to clear the stars from my vision, and spat out a broken tooth. My jaw was probably fractured. It certainly felt that way. Normally I would have been more worried about the tooth and the ugly gap in my…
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The Black Hand Does Not Take the Taunt The vague black silhouette had glowing blue eyes, yet did not exist inside my Force Sense. To my hearing, it was a region of absolute silence, as if it devoured every nearby sound. It moved in a way that was deeply wrong. Less like a living creature than a true shadow, flickering from place to place as the light that cast it shifted. Every step, every attack, every motion felt as though cold claws of fear were trying to pierce my flesh. These…
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Cheng Rui in His Mech A gaunt humanoid over two meters tall charged at Cheng Rui’s heavy armor faster than most cars on a highway. It had terrible claws and a skeletal face. The claws slammed into the thick iron plating with a deep, bell-like clang—and shattered in the process. While the monster howled over the loss of its claws, the drill mounted on Cheng Rui’s left wrist punched through its torso. Very quickly, the scream became a wet gurgle. The sharp, ultra-hard, vibrating chisel cut…
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Chi Li and Cheng Rui “Mom, you really can’t stay in the house anymore! It isn’t safe here!” For half an hour, the teenage girl had been trying to persuade her parents to go somewhere safer than this suburban house, and she was so anxious she was nearly in tears. The house’s greatest defense was a white picket fence. “Would it be safer to run into the fog while there’s a war going on?” Her mother was barely five feet tall, not at all imposing, but she still glared and repeated the…
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One Hunt After Another Why was the water glowing? Why was my skin so dry? Were the beads of sweat running down my face exploding when they touched the bath? I rolled over and retched. Spit and stomach acid splashed when they hit the water. No. This was wrong. I had to get out. My limbs were as weak as boiled noodles. I crawled out of the “bathtub” that had nearly killed me and tripped over a pair of heavy iron boots. I looked up. Thick plates of black-and-red metal. An…
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The New Skill: Force Sense With the death of that horrifying giant bird, my power rose again. It was the third time since the battle with the mutant plant monster. I began to suspect that gaining more points might not depend only on killing monsters. Perhaps pushing my own abilities to their limits helped too. Whatever the truth, I put my attribute points into Spirit so I could adjust to the unexpected increase in Strength. For my abilities, I spent three points to patch a glaring weakness in my…
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The City Is Sealed On a stretch of grassland in the western outskirts, a small convoy lay scattered and overturned. They must have been fleeing. Then something had ended their attempt to escape the affected area. The lead truck had been struck from above. A huge hole had been blown through its roof, most of the chassis torn apart. The wheels and part of the engine block still held together, but they were blackened by smoke and half melted. The car behind it had been crushed by the same blast.…
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