2023-04-14 07:00:00'Where are you right now?'
'The coffee shop at the end 'of Sixth Avenue.' 'There's a coffee shop at Sixth Avenue?' 'Where is the Sixth Avenue?' '🤦' 'Right, exchange student...' &nbs
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A clear feminine voice resounded throughout the forest. "Tehnica Sângelui: Dansul Reginei Păianjen!" Eight solid spikes of crystallized blood pierced through the airborne Chevy like needles through paper and impaled the ground and trees firmly to anchor the car in the air in an instant. The vehicle ended up being held up on its side less than two meters above the ground. Two more blood spikes ripped through the side of the car and Leva leapt out with Lisa in her arms. Her appearance had changed quite noticeably from before. The pale skin of her arms up to her elbows had gained a red hue and a shiny texture not unlike hardened steel. Her fingernails had elongated into hard pointed claws and her palms now had strange holes in them. The color of her irises had turned blood crimson and there were two more pairs of closed eyes above and below her actual eyes. Her hair had undergone the most change, having turned from its pitch bl
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The large shadow-covered monster lunged forward with a roar. 'Contractor, I have a suggestion that will help us... It is very dangerous but we do not seem to have much options...' Its menacing crimson eyes locked onto Anna with an unnatural hatred, flooding the little girl's mind and body with paralytic terror. 'Contractor, grant me permission to use your power...' She could not think. She could not move. There was a faint hissing sound in her mind's background but she could not focus on anything but that approaching red eyes that glared at her. They were filled with so much hatred... so much forced hatred... ... she wanted to help this poor creature... 'Contractor if you do not reply, we shall both die here...' Her mental block flared open as a determined resolve was born within her. "Do it." The serpent that had coiled itself tentatively around her neck unwound the co
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Chapter Ninety Eight: Vacuum of Despair
Chapter Ninety Eight: A Coming Storm Mia could not stop staring at the girl lying oh so innocently on that white hospital bed like she had not just tried to suck away all of Mia's powers like some kind of energy leech. The memory of that terrifying experience was still very fresh and raw in her mind, leaving her very uneasy about getting any closer than six feet to the girl's bed. She just kept pacing back and forth, imagining just what could have done this to the girl before her. But Rin was in no mood for such indecision. "Hey Mia," the ex assassin snapped the mage out of her thoughts sharply. "What the hell just happened right now?" "I... I don't really know..." She answered, her voice less shaky that it had been a few seconds ago but still just as uncertain. "I mean I thought I had recognized her from somewhere but when we first got here, I wasn't able to get a reading so I just thought I had been imagining things... But this..." "Ok you better start making sense or I'm
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Chapter Ninety Four: Duty
A single flap of his wings had him closing the distance between them immediately, his swords coming up for a double diagonal slash from both sides. Ezra reacted accordingly by blocking both attacks with a brand new pair of blood axes that formed instantaneously from the swirling magic around him. Vincent raised an eyebrow at the appearance of a second arm in the vampire's body, formed from solidified energy to replace the the Exorcist had severed earlier tonight. But even then, the strength of a Celestial being was not something that could be matched by simple Blood Magic. The axes shattered after a few seconds of bearing the weight of the Exorcist's power and Vincent attacked again. Having fully expected this, Ezra did not make any attempt to dodge since doing so would put him in a far more unfavorable position than he already was. Rather he stepped forward and raised his arm, the one that was made of energy and intercepted the stab. The sword pierced right through the arm but t
Chapter Ninety Three: A Dead Man's Sacrifice
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Chapter Ninety Two: A Futile Struggle
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Chapter Ninety One: Absolute Power
"Is it over?" Ezra asked as he rotated his left arm in a slow circle. "Did that last attack get him?" "I doubt it," Rosaline said, the irises of her eyes gaining an electric blue glow as she pushed arcane energy into them to boost her eyesight. "I saw him just before that last strike hit. His expression was way too relaxed for someone facing the possibility of instant death. He probably had a way to survive that thing." Ezra looked back at the large cloud of smoke and dust that drifted upwards slowly. The vampire chuckled in disbelief. "Well damn. If he really does survive that, then he is one tough son of a bitch." Beside the dark skinned mage, Aria tightened her hold on her daggers impulsively. "... We have to... We need to kill him..." "Someone sounds like they have a personal grudge," Ezra said with a smirk full of mischief. "Care to share with the rest of the class?" Aria turned to glare furiously at him. "It's none of your business—" "Actually it is," Rosaline cut
