Chapter 10: Examination
The slavers wheeled my cage next to the children's pens. Through the iron bars, I watched the healer, Harke, move methodically among the young captives. The thin man would pause before each child, eyes unfocused for a moment, before checking them over with gentle hands.
When he found injuries, a soft green light would emanate from his palms. Cuts sealed closed, bruises faded, and swollen joints returned to normal. His healing magic worked...
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Chapter 9: Prize
The cart jerked and swayed beneath me, each bump sending metallic clangs through my cage. I'd managed to work free of that cursed net, but these thick iron bars proved far more stubborn. Even with my considerable strength, they refused to bend.
Four bedraggled men trudged ahead of my cart, ropes over their shoulders as they pulled it along the mountain path. Their ragged clothes and shuffling steps spoke of long days spent at this task. Armed gu...
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Chapter 8: Caught
I sat among the carnage, my mechanical body creaking as I assessed the damage. The dwarf's axe had nearly split my chest plate in two. Several of my legs hung askew, their vine bindings severed. The arrow still protruded from my face, sending waves of agony through my ruined flesh. I yanked it out with a fierce, angry pull, the resulting pain almost knocking me unconscious. I tossed the miserable missile aside, sending it to the dirt.
Using
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Chapter 7: Others
The days blurred together as I marched across the wasteland. My mechanical legs never tired, though they occasionally needed adjustment when dirt and grime worked into the joints. The familiar rat-dogs and worms proved little challenge now. Despite the aged and rusted blade, my sword cleaved through them with ease when they dared approach.
A new threat emerged on the fourth day: massive, diseased-looking boars that charged at me with frightenin...
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Chapter 6: Grave
As the sun continued its morning rise, I spotted something peculiar. In the distance to the north, I spotted large, floating objects in the sky. I focused on the distant sight and realized that they were chunks of earth and stone that had somehow taken flight. Each was the size of houses, some broken up into smaller chunks, just floating lazily in the air. Sparks of electric energy flashed in the air around them, as if the space surrounding each stone...
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Chapter 5: Persevere
Countless hours passed as I dragged myself through the rocky dirt towards my destination which was far to the west. Over and over the cane’s tip dug into the earth, over and over did I use it to pull myself across the ground. Once or twice some sharp, protruding rock managed to jab into the delicate red flesh under my chest, causing a spike of indescribable pain to shoot through me. It was all I could do not to screech out in agony, filling the ...
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Chapter 3: Fight
My fingers gripped the shaft of the cane tighter as I locked eyes with the beast. A low growl began to emanate from its throat. It lowered its head as its lips snarled up to reveal rows of jagged, sharp teeth. Before I could react to this obvious show of threat, the beast lunged forwards, its thin legs carrying it in a swift dash across the dirt towards me.
Fear gripped my heart. All I could do was lie motionless on the ground as the dog thing r...
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Chapter 2: Crawl
I was on my back, staring up into the night sky. My throat was hoarse, worn down from all the screaming. My panic had now gone making way for a sort of tense, distraught calmness.
What the hell happened to me?
I lifted my head and looked down at what was left of my body. There was not much of it. Whatever had occurred, it had taken almost everything. All that was left of me was my left arm, upper chest, and head. Instead of bloody gore, a sort of rough, re...
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Chapter 1: Birth
Darkness was all around me. From every angle I was stifled, an infinite weight pressing on all sides. Movement was impossible, though I still tried. My awakening existence demanded that I move, yet the all-encompassing tightness imprisoning me prevented it. Muscles pulsed, ligaments pulled. The unending mass of black fought against me.
An eon passed; my attempts never ceased. Eventually, my persistence won. I felt my… fingertips(?) press back ...
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March
I watched the vast sea of troops marching east from atop my vantage point on the hillside. It was a glorious sight. Two and a half million men strong, all of them marching under different banners and colors. Yet despite their differences, these disparate factions were united under one noble goal: the destruction of the Primordials and, with their end, gaining freedom for the entirety of the known world. All the races of humanity: the elves, the dwarves, the halfli...
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