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Chapter 15: Shadow in the Water Tower
Author: SolidWrite
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"System," Raka called out breathlessly, "please tell me that arrow wasn't a stray one. Tell me there was someone there who deliberately saved our asses."

Raka squinted to hold back the stinging sweat dripping from his brow. He followed an imaginary straight line drawn from the tail of the black arrow still in the asphalt.

His gaze then spread upwards, past the rows of burnt-out shophouses, then across the dangling, broken electric cables until finally

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