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Serenity hated doubting the people around him, but there was that moment when he wondered if he ought to accept what Senkovar said. He clearly had some interest in Berinath that he hadn’t told Serenity about. At the same time, at least so far, he’d never lied to Serenity. He’d been wrong and he’d left t...
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“Does that mean we’re almost done?” Serenity was more than ready to be done with this. It hadn’t been hard, but it was definitely annoying. The scraping of the mana-draining rune on the shield he’d established to block it didn’t help; while he could tune it out if he was paying attention to something ...
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Serenity leaned down and rolled the expanded ball to Elder Lizven. That seemed to snap her out of her shock and she leaned over and carefully picked up the ball without letting her fingers dip into the openings. Serenity had the feeling that she’d had experience with people who’d worked the puzzle but not lo...
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Serenity couldn’t hear what the short dryad whispered to the guards’ leader, but he could see that the dryad allowed her past him. She scurried into the room, then hurried towards the four dryad elders. Serenity noticed that she carefully avoided the tiled area, but that only made sense; whether or not it...
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Serenity couldn’t tell how well his answer went over with the four dryads, but if he had to guess, it wasn’t very well. It didn’t line up with their worldview, after all, and people never liked having their worldviews questioned.
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The doorway led into a short tunnel that opened into a large room after a few steps. It clearly took up much of the interior of the giant tree, at least on this level; Serenity was fairly confident that it was fifty feet wide in its smallest dimension. Even for a giant tree, that was a lot of space to have open. 2023-11-24 10:12:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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Serenity wondered exactly how he was talked into this. He was there for all of it and could even review the video if he wanted to, but that didn’t really explain it. He wasn’t actually all that interested in training as a World Shaman; yes, he’d happily take the training and adapt it to fit himself, but it w...
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Baron Restali,
The full report on Earth is on its way using the Messengers’ Guild. It was very expensive because I kept finding things to add and they were so cheap that there was no excuse to not include them.
Earth is a contradiction. After as long as I spent on the planet, ...
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“Whatever it is, you’ll need to train before you have any hope of making it by delving.” Kaasi glared at the three people she and Death had escorted to Serenity. “Amaia and I carried you through that dungeon, and it wasn’t even hard for a Tier One. You know that, don’t you?”
It surprised Sere...
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“Why are you on Earth? It can’t be to kill Rissa, not when the first attempt was only a couple weeks ago.” None of the other attacks were on Earth, after all; they were years earlier in the Timestream. Yes, it was a threat now, but it couldn’t be why they were here. They’d have tried earlier; if nothin...
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Serenity was out at the waterfall trying to clear his head when he was swarmed by a group of people. Serenity wasn’t really prepared for company yet after the annoyance of trying to do something that didn’t make sense; how did emptying your mind help you talk to someone?
Not that he’d even figured o...
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Aki screamed.
The scream was wordless but it filled Serenity’s mind with a sense of urgency.
Serenity immediately forgot about the show he was watching while he waited for Rissa and ran outside. He couldn’t tell whether Aki had screamed in pain or in anger, but either way, it gave him a direction. ...
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Kaasi stared at the box that appeared in the place of the serpent. She couldn’t even call it a chest; it wasn’t. It was a cardboard box with a lid, like the ones she’d seen reams of paper come in. She supposed that meant it was probably something they could take with them, but it was essentially valueless ...
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Kaasi was confused by Miss Black. She was oddly endearing in her continual childlike wonder at the world. She also seemed incredibly desperate for a friend, which made Kaasi question the assumption that she was close friends with the deadly anomaly, Colorful. In some ways, that was too bad; Kaasi really did need...
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“Are you Rolan of Eternus?” Death thought the name was pretentious, but it wasn’t as bad as Becca said it was. It was aspirational, or something like that.
Or maybe Death was missing something again. That was normal. She still wasn’t certain why everyone had accepted her so easily; the other new peopl...
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Baron Restali,
While I have only been on Earth for a few days, I can already say that the information about both Serenity and Earth seems to be accurate yet incomplete. The Tutorial took seven months, far longer than any world I’ve heard of; part of this length seems to be that the invasion...
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Two more fire blasts impacted on Serenity’s shield before he was certain another lightning bolt wasn’t headed his way, at least not from the lightning mage’s wand. The lightning mage seemed to come to the conclusion a moment after Serenity did, because he dropped the wand and threw lightning at Serenity us...
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:We should draw them out: Rissa sent silently to Serenity. :I don’t know what they want, but I think we need to find out. I think they might be why I had that vague bad feeling earlier.:
Serenity nodded. He’d noticed the timing as well. He wished Rissa had a shield; while he’d recover from damage t...
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“Serenity?” Rissa walked up to her husband and set a hand on his shoulder. “Care to go out and walk in the park for a bit? Jenna’s settled down for her nap and I’m free for a couple hours.”
Serenity nodded. “Sounds like a good idea.”
He needed the time to clear his head after talkin...
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“Are you sure that’s her?” A whisper drew Death’s attention to the corner of the room where a group of three sat. They’d been there since before she arrived and had been quiet, watching the room the same way Death was. “She’s not black.”
The speaker was odd; Death wasn’t certain what he was...
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There were many places to learn about a society. Cymryn didn’t have time to learn anything but the highest level, which meant his information would only be of use as context for whatever the people planted on the planet found out over the next five or six years.
One thing was clear: there were massive f...
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“I hope he was Dalmoti,” Senkovar admitted. He closed his eyes for a moment, as if to suppress his emotions. “I thought he was killed. Did he say why he left and came here?”
Serenity wished he could read emotions better than he could. He knew Senkovar felt something but he had no idea what. Was he o...
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Past the obvious sense of time, there was an assurance to the World Shaman’s aura, a level of confidence that Serenity had felt only in the young and overconfident and those who knew themselves and their place in the universe. Serenity was willing to bet he knew which one Senkovar was.
There was a subtle...
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“Long enough for a world that is awake and inhabited,” the World Shaman agreed. “So. You are, by the Empire’s standards at least, an unusual Emperor. By my standards, you are an untrained World Speaker but an oddly successful one; at least, I assume that you were awarded your other worlds for helping their W...
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World Shaman Senkovar Et’Tart waited for the other Imperials to leave before he settled into one of the overstuffed chairs in the suite’s common room. “You are Earth’s Planetary Sovereign, are you not?”
Serenity wasn’t sure why the World Shaman felt the need to wait to ask that. It wasn’t kno...
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Serenity held the fist-sized chunk of crystal out on his open palm so that everyone could see it. It was one of the smaller chunks he’d picked up, but he could still feel a resonance from it. If anything, it seemed stronger than before, but for once Serenity did not feel the strong pull to eat it. He knew he co...
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Trying to explain “how Earth worked” quickly turned into “watching a documentary about recent human history.” It was surprisingly difficult to find anything that wasn’t either about old history, whether that was Rome or World War Two, or hyper-focused on a short time period, a location, or a person...
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Showing the Imperials around Earth was easier said than done. Serenity wasn’t sure how to show them what he needed to in order to get them to abandon their likely conquest plans, and Blaze didn’t seem to be certain either. Serenity needed to somehow balance showing them the value of the planet while also sh...
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Kaasi-of-Haunted-Glen watched the video recording of the two anomalies who destroyed the Human Defence Force research facility in New York City. The local who identified them was definitely correct to call them anomalies. It was too bad he was dead; someone who could find people like that with no more instruction...
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Showing the Imperials to their rooms seemed easy enough. It was a large suite setup; actually, there were several different suite areas. The one Serenity started with was the largest, with a TV area with a couch just past the entryway, followed by a more open room with a bunch of couches. Off to one side, there...
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