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A Low-Cost War of Attrition Gargoyles, the favored scouts of the Mavis army, possessed several unique advantages. These winged stone statues, given life through magic, were smaller even than children, and dark mason apprentices could summon them in great numbers. Their toughness and small size made them extremely difficult to destroy with projectiles, while their density allowed them to fly freely even under very poor natural weather conditions. The newest versions of the gargoyles had been…-
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Violence Begets Magic Legion Commander Mott took a bite of thin bread spread with butter and honey, chewed the unpleasantly soft mouthful, and forced himself not to show his disgust. To fail to display appreciation for the produce of a new land risked inviting ill fortune upon an expedition. Yet the quality of these things was nearly unbearable. The bread had no substance, too much starch and far too little fiber. The butter was adulterated with crude, inferior oils. The so-called honey was less…
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A Conversation in the War Room A dozen ironbeaks plunged from the sky, their sharp mouths opening to spew roaring flame. Chen Jin and Zhou Xiaorui raised their new weapons. Deep crimson fire erupted from them in torrents as thick as a human torso, surging upward to meet the monstrous birds. Every stream struck a giant iron bird with perfect accuracy. In an instant, each was engulfed, as if swallowed whole by a sea of fire. Most of the enemy’s forces used flame in some form during…
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Reaching the Magic Tower I lay powerless in the street, a faint, exhausted smile tugging at the corner of my mouth. My abilities still did not let me create fire directly. I had not unlocked anything that convenient yet. What I could do was use Forcefield Creation with a little cleverness. In two cylindrical spaces of roughly one cubic yard each, I used Force Adjustment to dramatically increase the heat contained in the fluid medium. Then, with Persistent Force, I permanently attached those…
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The Pursuing Fire I threw everything I had into Forced Acceleration, and at the same instant reached for Chen Jin and Zhou Xiaorui. Time seemed to lose its footing. The world slowed to a crawl, sluggish as a snail dragging itself through glass. Body and mind, I strained myself to the limit, pushing Chen Jin, Zhou Xiaorui, and myself forward as fast as I could with Proximal Manipulation. Between Forced Acceleration and my nearly inhuman perception and agility, every moment stretched thin—slow,…
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Immobilizing Coins Boom! An emerald fireball exploded, blasting a crater through the street and down into the sewer. The shockwave was strong enough to hurt me too, though mostly my ears suffered from double tinnitus. Chen Jin and Zhou Xiaorui were flung away like rag dolls. Then smoke and fog gathered in the pit, condensing into two tall black shadows filled with dread. “You just had to say something unlucky, didn’t you?!” I shouted at Chen Jin before the Black Hands rushed us. The…
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Small Talk on the Battlefield As the power gained from so many kills poured into my body, I smiled smugly. Force Field Creation had not looked impressive at first. In practice, it was an extremely useful ability. A cubic yard of space where force could be applied seemed small… until you stretched it into a half-inch-wide cylinder. Even if Near-Object Manipulation could “only” push a few tons of force through it, that was like using a wrecking ball to hammer in a railroad…
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Ye Rin’s Squad Advances “Wait for Chen Jin to come back from scouting.” Zhou Xiaorui repeated the sentence for the third time, even reaching out to tug my wrist when I started to move around the corner. He was a tall man of thirty-five or thirty-six, with a serious face and an air of tightly controlled violence. Every movement carried a firm sense of duty. He was also rapidly becoming a headache. A black shadow flickered past, only half-glimpsed, and slipped around the corner quickly…
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Everything Comes from Original Creation “So…” I thought back over my own powers, and in my mind the list of abilities rose up and matched itself, one by one, against the things I could actually do. I squeezed the now-silent lump of metal between my fingers absentmindedly, wondering how my powers managed all those things I had no time to think through, could not perceive, and absolutely could not calculate. Yet sometimes they clearly did have limits, and those limits seemed to arrive at…
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A Farewell in a Dream Aqiang was the younger relative closest to our family. His parents had died when he was small, and he was raised by his uncle. Still, apart from school, he was always finding his way to our house—during holidays, festivals, summer breaks, winter breaks, any excuse he could make. My mother loved him with a tenderness that was almost deeper than blood. The best dishes were saved for him first. When the weather changed, she had new clothes ready before he even thought to…-
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