2023-02-03 16:28:22Mina woke up in Yen's arms on the back of a moving open-roofed pick up truck.
"Where are we headed?" She asked, looking up at Yen
"We are going back to the fortress" Yen replied.
"Don't worry just rest"
"We'll be there in no time"
"In the mean time, you need to recover your energy"
Although Mina didn't fully understand the situation, she trusted Yen and closed her eyes to sleep. She was too tired to ask about the truck, or who the two people in the front were and how they found them. She had a lot of questions she wanted to ask but she needed to sleep more than anything so despite the bumpy ride, she slept soundly throughout the journey.
The first thing Mina saw as she opened her eyes for the second time was the walls of the fortress. Once again, she woke up in Yen's arms but there was no truck, just the two people in front.
"Who are they?" She asked with the tone of an exhausted person and one of them turned back to answer.
"I am Lee Shuan Gou" he said
"But you can call me Lee" he added
He was tall, fair, slim... and bald. The only thing that stopped him from looking like a shaolin master was his dressing.
The woman beside him was a bit different. She was was a fair brunette with a ponytail, a bit small in stature but she had the presence of a giant despite her nerdy looks with the glasses and labcoat.
"I'm Susan Schneider" she said as she turned towards Mina.
"You definitely don't know anything about me or who I am but I'm the one that built these walls"
"What?!!" Mina exclaimed as she jumped down from Yen's arms
"Did you just say you were the one that built these walls?" She asked
"That is correct" Susan replied
"That's impossible" Mina said out loudly
"These walls are a thousand years old" she added
"Do you really want me to believe that you have lived for more than a thousand years?"
Susan laughed as she adjusted her glasses after listening to Mina's questions
"Of course not" she said
"There is no way anyone can live that long"
"I simply skipped time"
There was long pause until Mina broke the silence saying "that was a good answer but I still don't fully trust you"
"Then how about this?" Susan replied as she walked up to the gate and said "I'm back". Suddenly the gate replied " welcome back Susan"
After having her jaw dropped, all Mina could say was "fine I trust you" as they walked into the fortress.
"So what's your story" Mina asked Susan
"If you were here before the order I would really like to hear it"
"There isn't much you need to know about me" Susan replied
"My place of birth has lost it's name, my loved ones are long gone. There is almost nothing I can tell you about me that isn't lost in time."
"I can't say much about myself but I can say a lot about how the world came to be the way it is now"
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Ellie watched the match play out with full concentration. The cameras were rolling, the stream was on, but there was no commentary, no intro, just total concentration.Waramaki motioned his hands and the tornado split into four, spinning around the arena randomly but with the ultimate aim of hitting Orie.At this point, Kojiro had expanded the stadium as wide as he could. This was the fourth expansion, the first was at the beginning of the match, the second was when Waramaki placed his elements all over the arena, and the third was when he saw the tornado. As soon as he saw the tornado split he knew exactly where things were going and expanded the stadium to its maximum capacity. He had initially thought that since Orie wasn't the type to throw around huge attacks, there would be no need for maximum expansion but as the match progressed, he realised that Waramaki would be throwing enough for two.A tornado is not something that can be evaded at the last minute, it has a pull and that
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When the ice queen laughs
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The veil of confidence
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