Ceiling.
I didn’t look up. I didn’t want her to think I’d noticed. With my third eye and senses, I’d already figured out what was there.
I calmly stared at Han-Byeol. From the moment I opened the door, her seductive glances made me feel uneasy. In a fleeting moment, a thousand thoughts crossed my mind, but I buried them all a...
2025-08-19 08:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Hours later, the blood-soaked road in South LA’s outskirts had been scoured clean, though the stench of death lingered like a ghost. Dozens of ambulances, their sirens screaming, tore through the city, weaving from the suburbs to downtown Los Angeles. The grim procession was a spectacle that turned heads, even in a city like LA. Residents, har...
2025-08-19 02:28:06 +0000 UTC
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“Are you ready?” Lucas’s voice cut through the crisp air, his gaze fixed on Mira and Number Eight as they stood poised at the starting line. Both nodded, their expressions taut with determination. With a swift wave of his hand, Lucas shouted, “Begin!”
Like hounds unleashed—or rather, like arrows loosed from a bow—Mira and Num...
2025-08-18 19:27:01 +0000 UTC
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“Sorry, sorry! Please forgive me!”
“Saying sorry isn’t going to cut it.”
“Argh! Don’t worry! On graduation day, I’ll definitely bring him! For sure! Argh!”
“Cha Yuna, can you take responsibility for what you’re saying? Don’t you think that guy’s been acting strange lately?”
Cha Yuna, propped up...
2025-08-18 10:40:26 +0000 UTC
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Jason shoved the sedan’s door open, stepping out onto a carpet of spent shell casings that clinked and crunched under his boots like broken glass. The air was thick with the choking stench of gunpowder, blood, and death, a miasma that clung to the back of his throat. The desolate road to South LA’s outskirts had been transformed into a night...
2025-08-18 01:53:23 +0000 UTC
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The sound of footsteps echoed through the crisp morning air as the group followed Lucas and Mira to the outskirts of Sedona City. The terrain here was a rugged patchwork of nature’s contrasts: a desolate grove of withered trees, their skeletal branches clawing at the sky, and a stark expanse of rocky outcrops, jagged and unyielding. The ground...
2025-08-17 19:27:01 +0000 UTC
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The course of events may vary as they unfold, but the source remains unchanged. Twisted branches eventually return to their origin, merging back into a single, grand flow. I won’t blindly trust this notion, but looking back, I realize I was too complacent when the future first diverged.
Regardless, the situation I face now is clear: time...
2025-08-17 10:30:23 +0000 UTC
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The roar of the car’s engine cut through the tense silence as Harley screeched back to the group, tires kicking up clouds of dust and gravel. She slammed on the brakes, the car skidding to a stop near the carnage of the earlier SWAT massacre. The rear door flew open, revealing a chaotic pile of firearms and ammunition spilling across the back ...
2025-08-17 02:30:03 +0000 UTC
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“What? I’m not a qualified assassin?” Mira’s emerald eyes widened in disbelief, her gaze locked on the man before her. Her voice trembled with indignation, her hands clenching into fists at her sides. She, Mira, trained by the third-ranked Skywing Hunter, had been personally praised by Big Sister herself. And now, this… this noble dare...
2025-08-16 19:27:01 +0000 UTC
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As the day drew to a close, the room grew dim. The light stones embedded in the ceiling were off, allowing shadows to creep in. Yet, a sliver of space near the left wall’s window remained untouched by the darkness, bathed in the deep orange glow of the setting sun. On a bed, slightly too large for one person, a woman lay sprawled.
Her fa...
2025-08-16 13:12:09 +0000 UTC
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Jason stood, his boots grinding into the blood-soaked dirt, a storm of violent intent brewing behind his eyes. If Stark was already Iron Man, suited up in that high-tech armor, Jason might’ve been out of his depth—outgunned, outclassed. But right now? Stark was just a man, a genius with too much money and not enough sense to stay out of Jaso...
2025-08-16 03:12:43 +0000 UTC
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In the soft haze of dawn, as the first pale light filtered through the curtains, Mira stirred from her slumber. Her eyes fluttered open, blinking away the grogginess that clung to her like a stubborn mist. For a few fleeting seconds, she lay still, her mind sluggishly piecing together her surroundings. Then, with a gentle turn of her head, she g...
2025-08-15 19:22:01 +0000 UTC
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The highly anticipated summit ended in a catastrophic breakdown, leaving only bitter conflict in its wake. As a result, some of the clans that had made the trek to Babara returned to their cities empty-handed, with no tangible outcomes.
The player academy, which had paused its training during the summit, resumed operations afterward. The s...
2025-08-15 13:16:49 +0000 UTC
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The spiritual pillar of the Golden Lion Clan, Son Bun-Rye, a year 9 player known as the godmother, was murdered in the eastern mountains. Her body was mutilated beyond recognition, and no clear traces were found at the site of discovery or the presumed battle location. This suggested that the true culprit behind her death was highly skilled in t...
2025-08-15 09:22:49 +0000 UTC
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Ten minutes later, Jason’s beat-up car roared into the kill zone, tires crunching over the blood-slick asphalt of the South LA outskirts. The air was thick with the acrid stench of gunpowder and scorched metal, the morning sun casting a sickly yellow glow over the carnage. He killed the engine, and the three of them—Jason, Harley, and Christ...
2025-08-15 01:09:40 +0000 UTC
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Amelia remained silent, her head bowed, her green eyes fixed on the floor. Why wasn’t she going back? Perhaps it was fear—fear of facing her Big Sis, the one person she’d always looked up to. She’d slipped away from home to find her, convinced for so long that her sister was dead after being gone for months without a word. The thought of...
2025-08-14 19:28:01 +0000 UTC
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Guided by the Black Lion members, I arrived at the academy’s instructor meeting room. The players escorting me stopped at the door and carefully opened it. As I stepped inside, I saw the left side of the table about one-third filled with instructors from eastern clans.
“Oh, the Mercenary Lord has arrived.”
The murmurs filling t...
2025-08-14 11:01:42 +0000 UTC
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Minutes earlier, in the desolate heart of South LA’s abandoned factory district, the air hung heavy with the stench of rust and decay. The crumbling walls of the old industrial complex loomed like silent sentinels, their cracked concrete and shattered windows casting jagged shadows under the pale dawn light. Inside, Jason sliced through the co...
2025-08-14 02:30:02 +0000 UTC
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Mira exhaled sharply, her breath misting in the icy air as she eyed the two figures warily. Her green eyes flickered between Lucas’s calm demeanor and Mina’s menacing stance, her instincts screaming caution. Gripping her short dagger between her teeth, she began to climb through the window, her movements slow and deliberate, every muscle ten...
2025-08-13 19:27:02 +0000 UTC
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2025-08-13 08:54:58 +0000 UTC
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David stood atop the van, untouchable, like a god in a wasteland.
The two automatic rifles in his hands danced wildly, each sweep of the muzzles snuffing out a living soul with brutal finality.
His skill had transcended the limits of mere marksmanship, charging headlong toward the realm of artistry with a gun.
He didn’t follo...
2025-08-13 02:18:50 +0000 UTC
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Night had fallen over Sedona City, bringing with it a biting chill and a light flurry of snow. The streets, usually bustling with life, were now nearly deserted, save for the occasional patrol of guards wielding glowing lanterns. Their soft light cast flickering shadows across the snow-dusted cobblestones, the only signs of movement in the quiet...
2025-08-12 19:27:01 +0000 UTC
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“Let’s break up.”
“Noona.”
Baek Hangeol gazed at Cha Yuna with sad eyes. But her expression was resolute. The warmth they once shared, holding hands and smiling softly at each other, was nowhere to be found. He tried to approach her, but with each step he took, Cha Yuna stepped back just as far. Eventually, he had no choice...
2025-08-12 13:48:23 +0000 UTC
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‘Are you really too dumb to understand, or are you just pretending not to get it?’
The voice from ahead pierced sharply into Kim Han-Byeol’s mind. She looked up with a blank expression. There, sitting arrogantly with her legs crossed, was Seong Yu-Bin, looking down at her. She took a drag from the cigarette in her right hand and exha...
2025-08-12 09:22:31 +0000 UTC
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The abandoned factory was still four or five kilometers away, its rusted silhouette barely visible against the dawn sky. David’s instincts screamed that there was still time to warn Jason, giving his boss a chance to slip the noose tightening around him. He reached for his phone, his fingers hovering over the screen, only to freeze. 'What the ...
2025-08-12 01:39:20 +0000 UTC
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The situation in Sedona City was nothing short of extraordinary, a marvel that stood out to anyone who witnessed it. For the oppressed beastkin, it was a beacon of hope, a place so remarkable it could rightly be called a City of Miracles.
Mira, still reeling from the surreal sight of humans and beastkin coexisting, felt as though she’d s...
2025-08-11 19:27:01 +0000 UTC
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“It’s not a lie. Please, believe me.”
“Hangeol, hold on a second.”
His tone sounded like he was about to burst into tears, so I reassured him in a gentle voice. Seeing his teary eyes, I couldn’t help but wonder if he was really a guy, but my third eye wouldn’t lie. Anyway, it was time to get into some serious groundwork...
2025-08-11 15:22:47 +0000 UTC
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At LAPD headquarters, the conference room buzzed with tension, the air thick with the scent of stale coffee and nervous sweat. Around the oval table sat the heavy hitters—LAPD brass, FBI honchos, and military top dogs, their starched uniforms and stern faces a testament to the gravity of the situation. The kidnapping of Avril Lavigne and Chris...
2025-08-11 03:02:38 +0000 UTC
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“Is this really Sedona City? It’s so… rundown,” Mira muttered under her breath, her voice barely audible beneath the coarse black burlap that enveloped her entire body. The fabric concealed everything—her hair, her ears, even the contours of her face—leaving only her sharp green eyes visible through a narrow slit.
Mira, a...
2025-08-10 19:29:01 +0000 UTC
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