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The Stalling Floor
Author: Lone Writer
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"Move your boots or I will trample you." A heavy armored shoulder slammed into Kai. "The prime spawns are mine."

Kai stepped aside as hundreds of guild hunters poured through the glowing portal. They spilled out of the rift and onto a vast plain of cracked gray mud. The stagnant air smelled of rotten earth and standing water.

This was the first floor of Kakosa D. It lacked the claustrophobic cavern walls of a standard rift. The dead plain stretched toward a distant horizon swallowed by thick wh
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