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The walk back to the hidden underground bunker was the longest walk of Everett’s life.Every step he took felt like he was moving through thick, heavy mud. The dry red dirt of the desert crunched under his boots. The cold wind howled, blowing sharp ash into his eyes.In his strong arms, he carried Lyra. She was completely unconscious. Her skin was as pale as the moon. She had used her own life force, her forbidden blood magic, to stop the green poison from eating his heart. She was so light, but to Everett, she felt like the most precious thing in the entire world.Silas walked next to him. Silas held his sniper rifle tightly. His eyes scanned the dark rocks, searching for any more elite assassins."We are almost there, Everett," Silas whispered. "Just over this next hill. Keep moving."Everett did not answer. He could not open his mouth. If he opened his mouth, he was afraid he would scream.The green poison from the Silent Knife was still inside his veins. Lyra’s red magic had pushe
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The last standing assassin, from House Rho stepped back. He looked at Everett, who was pushing himself up onto one knee. He looked at Lyra, who was glowing with terrifying red magic. He looked up at the ridge, where Silas was surely reloading his sniper rifle.The element of surprise was completely gone. Their leader was bleeding out. Two assassins were crippled. One was dead.The assassin from House Rho reached into his belt and pulled out a small black glass ball. He smashed it onto the ground.A thick cloud of black smoke exploded into the air, covering the entire canyon."The Houses send their regards, anomaly," a voice echoed from the dark smoke. "You cannot hide forever."When the thick black smoke finally cleared in the wind, the assassins were gone. They had used a teleportation crystal to escape, taking their wounded leader with them.The canyon was quiet again.The Stat Suppression Field suddenly turned off.The heavy, crushing weight vanished from Everett's shoulders. His
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The leader screamed in absolute agony. He spun around and fell into the dirt, dropping the green dagger. His blood sprayed across the dry red rocks."Sniper!" the assassin from House Solenne yelled. He raised his shield and looked up at the high canyon walls.BANG!Another shot rang out. The bullet hit the ground right in front of the assassin, throwing a cloud of red dust into the air."Keep your heads down, you golden bastards!" a loud, familiar voice echoed down from the dark ridge above.It was Silas.Silas was lying flat on a high rock, looking through the scope of his heavy rifle. He pumped the gun quickly, loading another bullet. "I missed the head! Next one goes right between your eyes!"The assassins panicked. They looked for cover. They were trained to fight in close combat with magic. They were not prepared for a Dust Runner sniper shooting from the dark hills.But Silas was not alone.Down in the canyon, the sound of boots sliding fast down the rocky wall broke the silence
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The five assassins attacked at the exact same time. They were incredibly fast. They did not lose their stats in the suppression field. They had special glowing white tags on their shoulders that protected them from the drain. They moved with high-level Agility.The assassin with the two short swords reached Everett first. He swung the blades in a fast, deadly cross toward Everett's neck.Everett could not dodge. He was too slow. His body felt heavy and useless.So, he did not dodge.Everett stepped forward, right into the attack. He raised his heavy, dead chain-sword like a simple iron club. He used the sheer weight of the weapon to block the two glowing swords. CLANG!The impact shook Everett's bones. The pain shot up his arms. But he did not stop. He used a pure, raw, human fighting trick he had learned long before the System gave him magic stats.Everett let go of his sword with his left hand. He stepped inside the assassin's guard. He grabbed the assassin by the back of the neck,
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The Red Wastes were a terrible place. The ground was made of hard, dry red dirt and sharp black rocks. There were no trees. There was no water. The wind blew constantly, carrying sharp pieces of sand that cut the skin. During the day, the sun was a hot, angry eye in the sky. During the night, the air turned freezing cold, like ice touching the bones.Everett walked alone in the dark.He wore his dark, heavy cloak. The thick fabric was torn and burned from his fight with the Bloodline Guards at the Glass Gate. His heavy chain-sword was strapped tightly to his broad back. He walked slowly. His heavy black boots crunched on the dry red dirt. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.It had been three days since he left the refugee camp. He had walked away from Silas. He had walked away from Lyra. He had walked away from Rae and the thousands of starving people who had turned against him.He did not blame them. The giant red System Alert in the sky had called him a Destabilizing Variable. The System had
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"They are using you," Everett said, his voice dropping to a harsh, cold whisper. "They dropped the red lasers on you at the Glass Gate like you were trash. And now, they want you to do their dirty work for them. If you kill me, they will not give you a Bloodline Upgrade. They will laugh at you. They will take your daughter, and they will make her a servant for their own super-children. They do not share power, Tobis. They only build cages."The words hit the crowd like a bucket of freezing water.The fathers and mothers looked at each other. The spell of the golden bounty began to break. They remembered the red lasers. They remembered the cruelty.Tobis looked at the rusty pipe in his hands. He looked at the blood on Everett’s clothes. He realized that Everett had spilled that blood for them.Tobis let out a loud, broken sob.He dropped the heavy iron pipe. It fell into the mud with a soft thud.Tobis fell to his knees in the dirt in front of Everett. He buried his face in his hands a
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