Luca DR

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168 – Unending

The reunion with his family had been bittersweet. No matter what, some differences took time to come to terms with. Albert was not the same person he was when he left the p...

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167 – Epilogue III

This time, the place they arrived in was the right version of Temalas city. Or at least it looked like it. The ‘smell’ of the air – which was an intuitive way Alb...

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166 – Epilogue II

Albert stepped through the portal. Portal travel was not always the same, and the experience was hardly uniform across the many ways it could happen. Even with this in m...

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165 – Epilogue I

Time passed. The city around them crumbled to dust. War, battles, the incessant erosion of existence itself. It all took a toll.

After the first few months, all tha...

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164 – Power gap

“Stay here,” Albert said, after deploying a shield to make sure his allies couldn’t be detected. “I need to see how strong those things are.”

“You are no...

Edge 163

163 – Sitea

Portal travel was… jarring. Most of the discomfort came from having to punch through what – to most people – amounted to an impenetrable defense: Sitea’s shield. Fortu...

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162 – Moving in and on

They kissed and kissed and kissed. It was long, and passionate, and full of emotion. There was a well of emotions behind it, pent-up desire on one side and reciproc...

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161 – Reunion

The village had changed in the thousands of years since Albert had last seen it. Now it was more like a sprawling metropolis, with no trace of the squat buildings that even ...

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160 – Elven blood

“Sir Albert?” Scrappy said after they were done eating. “What happened to you? Why are you so different now? I can see that you are trying to be normal, that I do,...

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159 – Power up

Just as the world began moving for the first time after so long, Albert made it so that it suddenly stopped yet again. But this time it was only the world that had stopped,...

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158 – Frozen time

Time stretched on. The attacks converging on Albert hung frozen in the air, mere meters away from him. He stood still, suspended in the liminal space between instants st...

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157 – Help II

“Help!”

A high-pitched whine filled the room, like the cry of a mother who had lost her child, a wail so loud as to be deafening. Albert’s heart thumped as his m...

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156 – Help

Albert grinned as he pulled a fat block of C4 from his inventory. Truth be told, he did not have nearly enough of it stored to blow up the room and make sure that whatever hid ...

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155 – First rule of warfare

Albert perked up. “Oh, oh oh oh! This Alignment Bio-Lab do be hiding all sorts of goodies!”

He didn’t realize that he was speaking quite loudly unt...

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154 – Gore

Albert stared at the sign painted on the concrete wall. The letters were quite well-preserved, which went against what he believed would have happened after so much time had pa...

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153 – Break-in

“Interesting,” Albert said, stopping for a moment to look around. He licked a finger and measured the air. “I am reading a faint electrical energy signature hidden by...

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152 – Scent of portals

Morning was a slower affair than Albert would have liked. He was hyped up after having found one of the core fragments last night, but the same couldn’t be said f...

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151 – Four-way split

“Alright. Just a few more moments in the shadows, Scrappy, then you can come out okay?”

A muffled hum came from a space beyond the material realm.

Alb...

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150 – Dead mage

“We are quite lucky, girls.” Albert said after gathering the trio back together. “There is one survivor, and they look badly wounded. Looks like interrogation time!�...

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149 – Nuclear weaponry

Three figures sneaked across the open field under the cover of night. Two of them were cloaked to appear completely invisible in the dark, the light itself bending ...

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148 – Catching up

As they made their way towards the source of the magical signature Albert was able to feel, the group began to come across the first signs of activity. It was only the l...

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147 – Following scents

Albert was outside the hedge camp. It was time to move out, but before dismantling everything he needed to find a lead towards the energies he presumed were the ori...

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146 – Ritual

With the important talks out of the way, it was finally time to proceed with giving Lina back some semblance of power. It didn’t sit well with Albert to see her so diminish...

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145 – Talks

“…I might.” The girl said in a small voice. “But I would like to have some more time to think about it, Sir. That I do.”

Albert smiled. “Oh? And why would th...

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144 – Night stalking

It was on the way back from hunting, sporting a decent collection of cores in his pocket both for his own consumption as well as for the girls, that Jeff gave Albert ...

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143 – Inventory access

Albert concentrated. Okay Jeff, pulling plates and cutlery out of my inventory was all fun and games, but how about something useful. How about a gun? I really ...