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The Least Common Denominator XXV.I Parallel Lines
"Come again, sir."Taking a bow at another satisfied customer, I finally closed the shop for the day as I roamed Livia's store for a few last-minute checks before retiring for the day. Seeing as my sister was preoccupied with some partnership stuff with Love, I was left alone to man our shared livelihood while the younger woman was gallivanting who knows where doing god knows what.Either way, I was left to manage myself with my newfound freedom."I'm bored..."Feeling rather lazy, as well as not having Livia's presence subconsciously pressuring me to work, I did jack shit to progress on my projects for the day. I just didn't have the energy if my precious sister wasn't beside me whenever I wake up. But then again, maybe that was just an excuse for me to procrastinate on either continuing to write another book, or to at
The Least Common Denominator XXV.II Parallel Lines
"Huh?"A distant pop echoed in my ears as I was roused from my not-so-productive act of lazing around like a common sloth. Letting my curiosity take a gander at having the steering wheel, I stood up and looked out the window, trying to ascertain as to where such a sound would even come from. My eyes trailed across the sky, looking for something or anything that might indicate the source of the distant explosion, only to find nothing except for the vast array of stars dotting the night sky."Odd..."I wasn't one to snoop about unless absolutely necessary. It didn't sound that important, but curiosity was still an instinct any normal human wanted to indulge. We were in a medieval setting; a place where gunpowder wasn't even invented yet due to the advent of the Fraction System and magic bullshit in general. So discounting that, there were but a few p
The Least Common Denominator XXV.III Parallel Lines
Using the cloak of night as cover, I stuck to the dark alleyways as the main roads were teeming with civilians going about with their normal lives. Torches scattered throughout the roads provided a source of light for the capital's citizens as stalls selling their various wares littered the streets of Mathema. Taking advantage of the general distraction that the big plume of smoke was giving me, I skulked through the small, dark corners of the city; trying to avoid using the main roads for as much as humanly possible.*Boom*Another explosion echoed out across the sky, this one being a whole magnitude stronger in terms of both volume and intensity. I could chalk that up as me being closer to my destination, but I highly doubt that that was the only reason for the increased power diffusing into the air.Whatever fight was happening within those cham
The Least Common Denominator XXV.IV Parallel Lines
Think, Crimson... You've gotten past sterner stuff than this... Look at the damn thing and stop thinking in circles.My eyes strained as I stared at the great wall of Mathema, my ass thoroughly on metaphorical fire as I forced myself to think outside the box. Thankfully, there weren't any guards along the perimeter from what I've seen, but that didn't mean that that would be the case forever.Okay... Rethink the available variables... The whole thing's reinforced, the closest available building was too far away for me to climb and use to jump over the blasted thing, and the surface of it was far too smooth to even climb...What else was there?! I can't get stuck like this! Think!I think...And think....But I was drawing a fucking blank at what to do against the
The Least Common Denominator XXV.V Parallel Lines
"Look out!"Whu-*SWISH!*My brain didn't even have the time to process the information in front of me before something pulled me out of my reverie. With a warning from my supposedly dead superior, I managed to dodge the stray bolt of fire coming straight at me, bending my body backward as I twisted to avoid completely falling over and exposing myself.What the hell was happening here?!Quickly drawing both of my blades, my mind was on fire as I tried to ascertain the current state of the battlefield.A literal zombie was a few meters away from me, her rapier swirling with blood and water and she flitted across the veritable maze of bookcases that seemed to stretch on endlessly in this building. Chasing her, glimpses of Livia's form appeared in between the cracks
The Least Common Denominator XXV.VI Parallel Lines
*FWOOSH!*A ring of fire expanded outward from his location just as I finally managed to regain my sanity just enough to evade the encroaching flames. The heat of his fires wasn't as strong as I was used to, but the principle of the matter was that I was still going to get burnt if I got hit with even a single lick of the orange plasma.*WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!*Rolling away from the man, three arrows suddenly flew from Love's bow, all aimed squarely at the other Prime as a trail of bright light accompanied them.Wordlessly, the man put up a shield of flame, the arrows getting incinerated upon contact while the light brought with it managed to punch some sort of dent through the wall of plasma. I pushed the impossibility of what I was seeing to the back of my mind as I quickly gathered my wits for another attempt at str
The Least Common Denominator Interlude XI: Olivia VI
This was not the night that Olivia had in mind when Lady Love wanted someone to accompany her to the Royal Library.It was supposed to be a simple infiltration job; one that her unassuming stature would no doubt help in posing as Lady Love's aide. While she knew that being a Prime held some form of status in terms of being granted access to some parts of the palace. She didn't expect Lady Love to go straight towards the supposed restricted section of the library once they found themselves inside the gigantic tower. From there, it was easy to spot just where the supposed plans for the whole city and the whole palace was. Bundled in with the rest of the city plans, Love quickly showed them to her as they unassumingly took an empty table for themselves; memorizing, and in some places, scribbling down whatever important information that they needed for her sister and her partner's plan to work. After which, t
The Least Common Denominator XXVI.I Adjacent Angle
In basic physics, I know for a fact that oxygen is required for combustion to occur. The exchange of hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen ions exude a fuck-ton amount of energy, and thus, heat and fire burst forth with the resulting compounds being carbon dioxide, and water of all things.Well, at least I think that's how the stoichiometry is supposed to work for combustion.In any case, the lack of oxygen in the air would result in a complete cessation of the chemical reaction that enables fire. It was essentially common knowledge for anyone smart enough to go through high school. So what happens when living, breathing organisms get stuck with a roaring flame in an enclosed space with limited or poor ventilation?We suffocate. That was simply the end all be all for anyone trapped in a building fire as big as this one. There was a reason the fire departmen
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