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Somehow, one ruined lean-to still has a tarp from a Millelith standard kit, and there are small speckles of blood. Craters and burnt trees pocket the clearing. The footsteps in the dirt are too messy to make out properly. He marches deeper until, in the darkness, he spots a ruined camp. A single claw mark is wider than Xiao's entire body. What trees remain upright bare deep, beast-like claw marks. Concentrated columns of burnt earth stretch across the hills, disrupted by random craters too small to match Rex Lapis' meteors. Healthy wood and grass turns charred and ashen. But now, Xiao wonders if there are any mortals even left in the region.Īs he walks deeper, the landscape begins to change. With the terrain protecting the region from marches or large-scale armies, Cloud Retainer had felt it safe to leave the people to its own devices.

They'd only left a handful of soldiers to watch the area. The people here had long ago agreed to a contract with Rex Lapis, offering their land and supplies in exchange for his protection. Stagnate air and broken trees fill the landscape. Instead, he disappears in a flicker, following the bitter scent of corruption in the air. He flicks his hand, sending a small burst of water that easily dispels with a swat from Xiao's spear. 'And don't act like you can't die, either,' Haoran fires back. 'Do not compare a mortal's strength to that of an adepti.' I have enough to worry about as is,' he says, the second half muttered under his breath. Xiao holds out his hand, and as the familiar weight of his spear falls in his palm, Haoran glares. 'The guards got infected right when they found them wandering around outside.'Ī location. After a moment, he nods towards the floating man and says, 'Captain Jinhai went with a group of five two weeks ago to check on a supply shipment when it never arrived.' He stares at the bubble with something akin to worry. 'Hmph.' Haoran's frown lessens as he thinks. Did something manage to evade his detection? Whatever is causing this is a demon recently killed, or one that is still alive and running amok.' There haven't been any demons of note that he has slayed within the region as of late, and he stays far from the mortal soldiers to prevent accidental contamination. 'It does not match any source that I have faced or dispelled. 'The corruption is different,' Xiao says. 'Or are you just here to sniff at them like a streetdog?' The pain caused by corruption is the same, no matter the source, but. Some are darkening around the edges, matching the fraying strings of red rope. He recognizes this specific type of fulu, ones often weaponized by the Tianheng Thaumaturges for minor hauntings.

Each breath feels thick and familiar in his chest. Xiao walks deeper into the room, the medic trailing behind him. Even he could smell the burning corpses from thousands of yards away. 'I would ask the people from the Wangsheng Parlor for help, but considering what they did last time a plague came about.' 'I'm trying to get the thing out of his body, but whenever I activate the water, it retreats.' He crosses his arms, glaring at the bubble as the man trapped inside calms. 'I'm not killing him, you fool,' Haoran snaps, as if he isn't addressing an adeptus but a petulant child. Within, the soldier screams, but all Xiao can see is the bubbles that escape his mouth. The water ripples, and the viscous ooze almost seems to writhe in pain before retreating into the body. 'What do you mean, 'How?'' Haoran points at the bubble. A Hydro Vision pulses on his hip, shining bright despite the deep bags under the man's eyes and the tremors in his hands. Xiao blinks as the medic wipes the sweat from his forehead. One floats in a giant bubble, unconscious as something viscous and black seeps from his mouth and several puncture wounds around his shoulder.

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Many of the soldiers lay in cots, strips of fulu sticking unceremoniously to their skin as they whimper and moan. The lingering hatred is all consuming, there. So he is not surprised to hear that the soldiers stationed in the Guili Watchtower are suffering from an unknown illness.

They are capable of battle, yes, but very rarely can mortals face the wrath of a god, alive or dead, and come out unscathed. It is why he is the one who slays demons, not them. Quality Fics Stats: Published: Updated: Words: 72229 Chapters: 13/? Comments: 40 Kudos: 229 Bookmarks: 41 Hits: 5389

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