"Midnight wolf (Swashbuckler) (female), name: Sapphire, level 43, HP: 5793/7511, MP: 8828/8828, Stamina: 11411/11411, Energy: 27% (2053956/7524627 units). (Disabled forced HP regeneration for quicker Energy regeneration)."
"Are you good now?" Winter inquired examining Sapphire.
"Other than minor pain here and there, nothing else." Sapphire answered stretching her body and wincing as her body ached.
"Good, please don't do anything reckless like that again," Winter requested with a sigh.
"I will try." Sapphire shrugged getting up.
"Can't convince you, can I?" Winter sighed. "Anyways, where to now?"
"No idea. While I don't know where to, I do know why to." Sapphire smirked as she turned to Winter.
"Why?" Winter questioned.
"To get stronger!" Sapphire answered, puffing her chest.
"You are defeating stage five dragons at the age of nine and still want to get stronger?" Winter groaned.
"Those stage five dragons are nothing, there are things in this world, and beyond this world, that are far stronger than those dragons. Just becoming the strongest here isn't going to work, I need to be strongest there is," Sapphire replied.
"As much as that sounds like a little kid's dream, and I will happily accompany you in this dream, granted you are a little kid." Winter said with a bow.
"Then let's continue, we are heading east," Sapphire informed, "I will explain a lot of other things to you along the way too so keep your ears open."
"They always are for you," Winter sighed.
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"It wasn't part of the plan for The Shadow and The Empress to be in the same world. While it makes keeping an eye on both easier, it raises several issues at the same time. The third one will also join in soon enough. The situation is sure to turn volatile soo enough, I will just have to rely on the Sixth Immortal to keep the sisters from killing each other." The man sighed, walking over to a small circular table placed in the room, he gently tapped it twice.
The room seemed to be made of the darkest void itself, and so was he, his entire body resembling a dark void with a featureless face, a black coat with golden linings worn over it. As he tapped the table twenty-six cards placed themselves on it, all with their back upwards.
"The Duke, The Empress, and The Shadow." He said to himself flipping three of the cards. The cards contained a picture, each belonging to the three he mentioned. "Also known as, Crystal, Kesshō, and Sapphire." He turned another card upside down. "Now, The Knight."
He walked away from the table, all remaining cards still facing down. Half the cards were with a black back while the other half were red. When flipped they possessed border linings of their color. Crystal's being red, while Sapphire and Kessho's were black.
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"One of these will have to die soon," The Creator sighed, "very soon."
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"Things seem to have been going well for her." Kurai smiled, standing at the edge of a giant crater in the ground.
The entire area was devastated with boulders and rubble lying all around the crater, all trees having been uprooted and burnt to ashes. The body of an ancient fire dragon lay at the center of the crater in a small pool of blood, having died with a peaceful expression on its face.
"This is great, very great," He chuckled, "Continue to grow strong like this, and one day, you will be just what you need to be." He turned around and walked away from the crater. "I do wonder how long it will be before I am strong enough to fight my former teacher and win still, I wouldn't want anyone I don't trust pulling the strings afterall."
"Human (male), level 20635, HP: 463205/463205, MP: 504373/504373, Stamina: 484207/484369, Strength: 406278, Defense: 390735, Speed: 360364, Skill Points: 10323000."
"So many skill points but nothing to use them on, maybe I will just lend them to Kesshō once I find her." Kurai shrugged walking away towards his destination. "I need to find the accurate Appraisal skill as well, this one is far from accurate."
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Why is everyone so weak? Kesshō thought as she flicked the blood of her katana.
Three Ancient earth dragons lay dead beside her in the darkness. The room she stood in was filled with darkness, two massive openings in the cold hardstone walls barely visible. The stone was ancient and so was everything else, still somehow the mechanisms for the doors worked, most likely having been made with magic.
Like, are you even actually trying? I know you wanted to die, but still, I didn't even try and I won with ease. Even with a death wish I think you should do your best in a fight. If you don't want to fight then why do you pick a fight to begin with? Kessho rolled her eyes. I want to fight her even if just once, her skills were much better than anyone I have ever seen fought before. Just one duel will be fine with me, at least I will be able to have fun in a fight again. I feel like I have had a duel which was fun a long time ago, a fight I risked dying in the longer I fought, but I can't recall any details about it, I wonder why."
She descended deeper into the labyrinth following a path that descended lower. Labyrinths were supposed to be fun and challenging right? Atleast that's what I heard from those adventurers. This is my fourth one and I still don't think I have had any fun yet.
As she entered the next floor she was greeted by an elemental breath attack of a five headed hydra. Reopening her eyes once the breath attack stopped she unsheathed her katana. "Do your best to keep me entertained," She sighed.
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"Things are getting exciting now, and fast," Fi chuckled. She sat on a high cliff near a seaside, her legs hanging off the cliff. The strong winds caused her hair and dress to flutter. The sunlight from the setting sun reflecting from her beautiful pink eyes.
"This is the most volatile the world has been in a very long time. Changes are happening at a rapid pace. The new ones are preparing to take authority from the old ones, to write their story the way they want it to be, to change the world the way they feel is right. So many varying ideals and powers, all preparing to seize the world for themselves. All of them, slowly but surely, working their way towards the grand finale of this. This will certainly be worth watching, but just watching isn't my thing. Not like I have to think about which side I will pick either, I already have picked my side, the one I think is right, so have the other five. They might have been deemed more important for this mission by Them, but it doesn't mean I have to find their messed up ideologies to be important. Though in this world, there are very few absolute rights. Afterall, you can't expect one thing that is right for some, to also be right for others."
"We have located them," A flaming red phoenix informed as it descended, "my queen." It finished with a bow.
"Very well, I should introduce myself to the one I will be fighting for as soon as I possibly can." Fi cheered with a smile as she stood up, staring at the setting sun before turning around and walking away. "The dusk of the old order is coming."