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Saho was easily the single strongest adventurer that Fuyuko had ever seen.
He made the demonic forces, which had been decimating the kingdoms of the central continent until he took to the battlefield, fall apart like leaves in a tornado. Interestingly despite the threat he posed, the demons did not seem to regard him as any higher than a regular adventurer. Fuyuko and the rest of his party found this odd, but it was good fortune, so why complain?
With him on the field, they were finally pushing the demons back, as the elves and dwarves found themselves reenergized.
That wasn’t to say that there weren’t losses. The beastkin capital had finally fallen after 16 months under siege from demons, rendering many of the beastkin outside of the kingdom without families. A smaller human kingdom had been torn apart from the inside, as the mounting pressure from the demons gave rise to paranoia and traitorous thoughts. A dwarven kingdom crumbled not too long ago during an assault by undead, when their fallen allies rose again to fight on behalf of their enemy. Dozens of kilometers of elven forest had burnt down, and only Saho and his party’s intervention had stopped the swarm of flaming demons from destroying a nearby elven town.
Hopefully this would be over soon. Fuyuko couldn’t wait to return to her home.
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Adachi hadn’t opened her eyes yet, but she could hear somebody nearby.
Carefully, she peeked through her eyelids, hoping that whoever it was wouldn’t notice. She was lying on a bed in a well furnished stone room, with a high ceiling and a single window that let her glimpse a landscape of dark buildings. The person nearby was Sou, who was dozing in a nearby chair, without his armor or weapons.
“Sou!” she whispered, trying to get his attention. It evidently worked, as he roused slightly. “‘Achi?” He blinked sleep from his eyes. It took him a moment to focus on her. “You’re awake!” He suddenly shot to his feet, nearly knocking a book off of the side table that it had been resting on.
He rushed to her side, at a remarkable speed.
“Where are we?”
Her question was not answered by him, rather by a grey-furred beastkin woman that stepped through the door. Behind her, a huge white and red monster loomed, its enormous bladed forelegs flanking either side of the door. It’s empty red eyes bored into her soul, freezing her in fear. That thing, whatever it was, was a predator– and they were its prey.
“You are currently in the city of Axalara, where you will likely remain for a very long time.” The beastkin spoke with words laced with honey, although Adachi could tell the inflection behind them. They were prisoners.
“It is good to see you awake however,” the thing that was rapidly becoming clearer was not a beastkin continued. “Your friend here was getting worried.”
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The monster blocking the doorway clicked it’s mandibles together in an odd way that reminded Adachi of a chuckle.
“Oh and don’t worry about your arms.” The grey furred monster that looked like a beastkin grinned. “We’ll fix you right up.”
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I’ve been thinking.
I can’t keep this game up forever, as much as I’d like to.
Eventually, Akira will refuse to play along, and I’ll have a choice to make.
On the one hand, I could try to destroy everything and start again. It could be possible, although Akira will certainly fight back.
On the other hand, I could set up a backup game. One that she won’t even notice.
Akira is entirely focused on the milky way right now, which is where Earth and Asyke is, so I might be able to sneak some of my evil machinations into another galaxy or two.
Obviously you know which one I’m picking.
But what if she notices, you might be asking.
Well, I’ll be making these changes very quickly, and I’ll set up a distraction beforehand.
I’ll be doing this pretty soon.
. . .
. . .
. . .
Yeah it’s been long enough.
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Akira was watching Saho intently when it happened.
A loud crack sounded across Asyke as a monster descended. She could feel the beast slam against the edges of the universe, as the creature that it had made landed.
It was unlike anything else, with the lower half of a dragon and a humanoid torso bulging from where the dragon’s neck should’ve been. Its head was an amalgamation of different animals, with the rough shape of a wolf with the tusks of a boar and the horns of a bull. It was roughly the size of two houses stacked on top of each other, and its massive hands were the size of a man.
It had landed in the middle of a field, not far from a town of elves who were readying for an approaching horde of demons.
She shivered as she felt the monster’s creator smile.
She could only pray that Saho would be able to defeat it.
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I’ve always been partial to some good old HFY.
What is HFY?
Humanity: Fuck Yeah!
Basically, humans are awesome, and kick ass everywhere they go.
Now of course regular humans in this universe are basically on par with the other races, which is nice. I hate when a race is outclassed by everything else.
Anyway, so far everything I’ve made has had a ‘taint’ that marks it as mine. But I think I can make something without that.
So, I’m gonna commandeer another galaxy, and mix things up a little.
First off, it’s gonna be basically the same as the milky way. But it's gonna be chock full of life. Intelligent races galore over here!
I’ll make sure that the galaxy follows the exact same order of events as the real milky way, so humans will turn out the same (mostly), but with a little twist. It’s gonna be much faster for a while. Currently, the real milky way is at 3151 BCE. Same with this other one, but I’m just now adding life. So I’m gonna be making time much faster, so humans become a spacefaring race around the time that napoleon is running around on real-earth.
This is getting pretty confusing, so I’m gonna refer to the new earth as Terra, and the new humans as terrans.
See where I’m going with this?
You might.
I’ll be scattering some fun clues to my existence through this galaxy too. A derelict spaceship here, a huge black monolith there, you name it.
I’ll turn off the time dilation once World War 2 happens on earth.
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