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A Twelve-Person Assault Team “The tower is going to shoot at us with—” CRACK-BOOM! CRACK-BOOM! CRACK-BOOM! CRACK-BOOM! A colossal bolt of lightning tore through the sky with such violence that it staggered the weaker members of the group. Its blinding light made the cloud-covered heavens brighter than the noon sun, and the shockwave of its passage blew away the rain within three hundred meters of the bolt itself. It was spectacular and terrifying, with enough power to vaporize anyone…-
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Forty-Three Hours Left Putting one point into Strength filled every muscle in my body with more power. It felt like a surge of adrenaline, or a powerful performance enhancer. My body tightened, changing even as the additional strength took hold. The second point doubled the effect. My palms widened by the tiniest amount, my fingers lengthened, and my arms grew thicker. The changes were not obvious, but I had already reached the upper limit of the body size I preferred, and I had no idea how…
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Earthquake Out in the wider world, almost no survivors noticed that anything was wrong. The distortion was both subtler and grander in scope, and the people inside it were part of it. Military drones and satellites in the sky, however, were sharper than human eyes. When photographs of a region suddenly stopped matching previous geometry and could no longer be described by any known mathematics in a way that made sense, computers tended to notice very quickly. That drew…
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The Seeds of Change Descend In a dim room beneath the center of the ruined downtown of Sanguang City, figures began appearing in groups of two and three. Roughly half of them looked identical: the same solid build, the same muscular limbs, the same classically handsome but unremarkable faces, pale skin, black hair, and hollow eyes flickering with strange inner light. They wore what appeared to be simple black plate armor over garments of chain, leather, and linen that clung to their bodies like a…
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There Are Contingency Measures In his mind, the map of the city was less a map than a pattern of forces. The remnants of the old military, the outposts, the local resistance, and the few local talents growing against all odds into genuine threats. All of them were moving toward an endgame he had been arranging for some time. And yet the situation was now developing in a direction he had not foreseen. The local resistance’s firepower had suddenly increased significantly, showing two…
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The Temple Summoning Begins The temple was built from interlocking shapes and images symbolizing Mavis magic, Mavis history, and the written forms of specific spells, again using sympathetic principles to connect with the summoning ritual. Magic was guided by intention, and language was intention encoded into arbitrary symbols by the shared agreements and beliefs of hundreds of Mavis generations. Therefore, language could guide magic. The conversion ratio was extremely poor. One had to carve those…
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Continuing the Advance The next three tombs were defended relatively weakly. All of us were wondering where the enemy’s enormous army had gone. Considering the nature of their power, the longer the war dragged on, the more magical resources they should have accumulated. Instead, what we saw was a slow but steady decline in the number of monsters, because we were getting better and better at killing them. Just a few days ago, a dozen fire demons could have easily broken through everything I…
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Assaulting the Ghoul Tomb I stopped from superspeed, breathing hard. The two sword demons flanked me. One swung for my throat, the other for my legs. Every time I flew or teleported away, they used some ability to catch up. So I raised both arms to block the first sword, jumped over the second, and used the force from the first demon’s strike to kick the second. There was a sharp crack. A quick glance through Force Sense showed that I had broken one of its ribs. Good. Compared to that,…
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Enhanced Weapons An eight-meter serrated sword swept through the space where my head had been a moment earlier. As it broke the sound barrier, it cracked the air like a whip. I gave a strained grunt, twisted away from the next follow-up slash, and teleported aside. Just as with every previous attempt at the same move, the bald, gray-skinned, grotesquely muscular humanoid followed me through space. I tried to fly away next, but the instant I cleared its attack range, the demon appeared in front…
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Guns Are Powerless Ever since my abilities had been grouped together on the panel, using them had become easier, especially when combining several powers to create one complicated effect. Here, Force Adjustment weakened gravity’s grip on the pile of earth, making it light as bark while preserving its inertia. It also temporarily reduced friction and cohesion so the dirt could be shaped more easily. The shaping was done through Nearby Object Manipulation, molding the claylike mass into a…
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