"Huh?"
What the hell kind of genius was this Flame if she wasn't even the one that made the damn thing? It's not like she was alive, judging from her earlier statement of the chick being a former Prime that somehow rebelled against the Empire.A fact that was somehow still nagging in my head for some reason."I don't care!" I stressed as my headache started to overtake the rest of my body on the scale of eleven. "It's not like she made the damn thing-"*SMACK!*Flesh met metal as my face was greeted by an iron-based backhand from Mr. Tin Can himself. Rolling to my right side, I couldn't even chuckle as now, both of my cheeks were swollen to shit from defending the rest of my skull against more lethal blunt trauma.Hah. I'm starting to not care about myself again. 'Livia's gonna be livid..."On and on, you insult your betters!" the Decimal roared, slamming his halberd down on the ground for seemed to be the
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"I'll make your death even more painless if you agree, Crimson."I almost choked out a dead laugh at the absurdity of the situation. A whole life and death battle going on all around us... My whole body aching as the fuck beat me to an inch of my life... Hell, I can't even hold my katana straight anymore all because I dissed on his idol or something.For all intents and purposes, I should have been dead a dozen times over.And yet, the fact that my stance somehow, for some reason, looked at least an inch closer to this Lady Flame's stance made him change his mind about all of the shit I threw at the former Prime ever since I knew of her existence. Even now, the Decimal looked like he was practically begging me to teach him Mother's style. To the point that he even used my name as some kind of gesture of respect to me.What the fuck is my life right now?!"W-what makes... you think... I-I'll teach you?!" I stuttered out mid-pants as I assumed a bastardized copy of Mother's left-handed
The Least Common Denominator X.VIII Exponential Value
Essence Rebound: a phenomenon where the Runic Essence on an existing rune is overloaded due to a disruption on the normal rune's functions.Or at least, that was what I remember Rebound to be. I haven't really brushed up on this shit ever since we started fighting for our collective lives.While I'm sure that Father and the rest of the Denominators didn't call the usual big-ass explosive failures with the term, I didn't give a damn since it was my own linguistics anyway. It always happened when I somehow nicked a segment of Runecraft without neutralizing the infused Essence first, or if I hadn't reinforced it yet with the proper runes, always resulting in a critical failure of whatever project I was making at the time. And sometimes, even some cuts and bruises when I managed to do it mid-test due to impatience and overall sloppiness of my usually rushed work.
The Least Common Denominator XI.I Arithmetic Overflow
'Oh! Let's run away from the Decimal that has a rune that can make her run faster than you! Surely that's gonna work!'"Come on, Dirt Eater!" I heard the maniac chasing me shout out as my feet carried me even deeper into enemy territory. "Do more of the advanced moves!""Leave me alone!"I carved through a stray Decimal as I rushed through the oncoming tide of enemies; Olivia's swath of destruction serving as a decent guide for me to follow her. It would've been better if she didn't run off into who knows where, but I had to make do somehow. And I'm sure that she knows what she's doing if she had the audacity to charge blade-first into a wall of factual lemmings- Fuck!*CLANG!*"I won't stop until you cease and desist, Dirt Eater!"My momentum was suddenly moved towards my right side as I blocked this insane chick's heavy attack on my left, causing me to swerve haphazardly towards a group of unassuming Decimals that s
The Least Common Denominator XI.II Arithmetic Overflow
"You're an insignificant Dirt Eater. How hard is it to understand?"I felt my brain explode at the incomprehensibility of my current situation. I knew that indoctrination was a thing, but there was still a part of me that somehow believed in common human decency; that as a person, anyone can have the capacity to feel pity and empathize with someone despite having completely different upbringings."As Denominators, you are all expected to perform in service for the Empire," the Decimal soundly declared as she spouted out what sounded like wholehearted propaganda in my ears. "You should be honored that we are even trusting you lot to give us quality gear, not with your lot's reputation of being lazy and careless when it came to your work."I felt my tears become not of emotion, but of one of rage and anger as quickly as I heard this piece of shit reb
The Least Common Denominator XI.III Arithmetic Overload
It all happened in a flash.In the blink of an eye, the Decimal was suddenly in front of me. Not even giving me the chance to defend myself, she raised her halberd with the clear intention of killing me with it."Die!"Fuck!*CLANG!*I grunted as I caught the halberd mid-swing with my katana, my shoulders buckling as I held the damn thing at an awkward angle. Her speed was a problem that I had to address here and now. But first, I had to disengage!*CLANG!*With a heave, I pushed the halberd off of me before deftly slinking away from the inevitable follow-up-*Crash!*-the halberd crashing onto solid ground while I quickly positioned myself on her backside. My eyes quickly searched for the Momentum Runes, which, as they should be, were still glowing due to their very recent usage."W-What are you doing?!""Gimping you, asshole."Gathering the prop
The Least Common Denominator XI.IV Arithmetic Overflow
My feet dug itself deep into what was once the soot-covered ground as I managed to reorient myself back to the trail of death and destruction that Olivia left in her wake. It was honestly a miracle that I managed to do so in the first place. What with my surroundings zipping past my peripherals as I ran as fast as my legs could carry me.*CLANG! STAB! STAB!*With an occasional parry and stab, I found myself flying through the enemy territory as my pursuit of my wayward sister continued. I was back to cutting and stabbing through Decimals with ease as opposed to that one fringe incident with that cute Decimal earlier. It was a welcome change, seeing as my body still burned due to the thorough beatdown that I received from her.*CLANG! CLANG!*I didn't even look at these mooks as I guarded against their weak-ass attacks. To be fair though, I think it was due to them rushing towards the front-lines that they didn't bother focusing on the one
The Least Common Denominator Interlude VI: Emerald
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The Least Common Denominator The State of Affairs I
It has probably been a week since we escaped from our precarious position. Leaving the bodies of our fallen enemies behind us, we, as a group, pressed forward towards the nearest Decimal station situated near the exit of the Furnace. Miraculously, I was correct in saying that the army we slaughtered was practically the main brunt of the workforce stationed here. So, once we managed to set ourselves up across the rest of the Furnace, we essentially had the whole place to ourselves.The whole industrial might of an Imperial Furnace. Now that was something that was scary to think about if you're trying to put down a rebellion. I knew for a fact that It's been far too long since we commandeered the place. The Empire should be mobilizing right about now, probably just waiting for the go signal before swarming in through those gigantic wooden doors separating us from the outside world. Not that we were complace
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