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"Posted rate is for locals," the soldier replied, his companion's mouth pulling into something that had no warmth in it whatsoever. "You're human. Human rate is ten gold. City protection fee. Very important fee. You want to walk in here without paying the human rate, some very unfortunate things tend to happen.""They do?" Marco's eyebrow went up slightly."Accidents," the soldier continued. "Terrible accidents. The kind that happen to humans who don't understand how things work in Evil City."Marco looked at the spear in front of his chest. He looked at the soldier holding it. His heat started rising slowly, the kind of patience running out that didn't announce itself loudly.The soldier lunged.A pale arm appeared from nowhere and caught the shaft mid-thrust. The arm absorbed the force completely, the spear stopping dead.A young man stood at Marco's left, his fingers wrapped around the weapon. He was human, pale as someone who'd spent years in insufficient light, with blood drying
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Blood ran down Samuel's face from a dozen impacts. His vision was working on delayed signal, the world arriving slightly after it happened. "You'll kill me anyway.""I'll kill you certainly if you don't answer. Less certainly otherwise."Samuel looked at the sword at his throat. He looked at the forest around him where eight thousand soldiers had become something the birds would eat. He looked at Marco's face and found nothing there to negotiate with."Roland Morrison," Samuel said, and felt his family's name taste bitter on his tongue. "Louise's younger brother. He's been the designated successor since birth, but Louise's return threatens everything he's built over three years. He was frightened she'd been planning something and sent me to eliminate you before you could complicate his position further."Marco held the sword steady for another moment. Then he sheathed it.Samuel's body loosened with relief, the tension draining out of him all at once. He started to breathe properly.M
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Samuel's legs gave way before his pride did.His men caught him before he hit the ground, their hands finding his arms out of trained reflex. He didn't thank them. He was staring at the blood writing and doing mathematics that kept producing answers he didn't want.Eight thousand men. One night. One person."Sir," his subordinate started."Don't," Samuel said.Something moved in the canopy above them. Then Marco dropped from the high branches and landed in the clearing with the casual ease of someone stepping off a porch.His clothes were torn and blood-stained. His expression was entirely relaxed, almost warm, the way someone looks when they're genuinely glad to see you."I gave you a ten-minute head start," Marco said, his voice conversational. "You should have cherished it."Samuel straightened himself despite his subordinate's hands still on his arms. His eyes moved across Marco's aura, reading the vital energy output with the trained instinct of a thirty-year military man.His fa
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He leaped upward, both Blood Holy Swords appearing in his hands as he reached the apex of the jump. When he came down, he drove both blades simultaneously into the earth.Blood Burst erupted outward in every direction, crimson power fountaining from the impact points and spreading through the ground like cracks in ice. The earth split. The power traveled through the fractures and emerged beneath the formation's feet.The Knights activated Holy Light Barrier, overlapping their defensive fields into a wall that had stopped assault techniques from twice Marco's current power level.The Blood Burst reached the barriers and tore through them like cloth meeting a blade.Marco moved into the formation before anyone could reorganize.A crimson shape moved through the squad, each pass leaving the formation smaller. Skills hit him from every angle and he absorbed them, his physique enhancement making Early Second Transition attacks irrelevant. His vital energy output at this tier was simply bet
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The scouts found Samuel three miles from the main pursuit line, their faces carrying the particular pallor of men who'd seen something they needed to describe but didn't want to."Report," Samuel said, not breaking stride."The forest to the north, sir." The lead scout kept pace beside Samuel's horse, his voice strained. "Hundreds of bodies. Maybe more. We couldn't count accurately because parts are scattered significantly."Samuel raised a hand and stopped his column. "Scattered how?""Severed, sir. Arms, legs, torsos. The blood smell is overwhelming from fifty meters out." The scout paused. "They're all our men."Samuel turned his horse slowly, looking at his senior subordinate."The First Transition target?" his subordinate asked."No," Samuel said, his voice carrying the absolute certainty of someone who hadn't been wrong in twenty years. "Impossible. First Transition trash doesn't produce massacre fields. Whatever killed those men is something different.""Then what?""The warrio
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"Kill him now while he's adjusting to new power!" someone shouted from the back, still upright, apparently made of sterner moral fiber than his colleagues. "He just advanced! He doesn't know his own strength yet! Take him while he's disoriented!"Several dozen melee fighters stood up from their knees and charged together, deciding greed was stronger than divine pressure.Marco watched them come. "I should mention something," he said."Don't," the lead fighter snapped. "You've killed enough of us already, stop talking and fight.""Blood Transverse Sky," Marco said. "Second Transition Level Eight."The fighters slowed, uncertain."That's impossible," the lead fighter said, his charge losing momentum. "Outsiders can't master skills above Level Four inside the wasteland. That's the suppression law. Everyone knows it.""Do they?""Yes! It's the entire point of the wasteland's existence! Level suppression applies to skills as much as cultivation! You can't use a Level Eight skill here!""Wa
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