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Chapter 41 - Unchanged City, Changed People The Garnet Kingdom was a small island state located on the eastern side of the Southern Archipelago. Because of its trade and cultural exchanges with the Huang Dynasty, the country spanning the eastern side of the continent, the unique southern lifestyle of the island states in Garnet blended with Huang’s oriental culture. In Garnet’s streets it was possible to find banners and boards both in southern alphabet and “Huanzi”, a type of characters…
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Chapter 48 - Fated Encounter with the Immortal Man “The only place to slay a woman is on a bed. Only scum would enjoy torturing them.” “Haha, that stings.” The knife had without a doubt pierced Drake’s chest, but he pulled it out as if nothing had happened. The wound closed quickly, leaving no trace behind. “A magic tool boosting recovery…? No, that can’t be it.” I was familiar with that kind of recovery. I had witnessed it since I was a child, whether I liked it or not. “So that’s…
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Chapter 42 - Rotten Humanity “Sue, don’t look.” “Ah…” Sue was on her knees, in complete dismay. I covered her eyes with my hands, to not let her see the sisters’ corpses. In the square, about 10 sisters had been affixed, arms wide, on crosses. A considerable amount of time seemed to have passed since their death: the bodies had dried up to the point they looked like black mummies. Crows had gathered around the crosses, attracted by the stench of dead meat, but the sisters’ bodies were so…
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Chapter 43 - The Colony’s Shadows “W-We had no other choice!! Do you even know what happens to those who dare oppose Lord Drake!? They’re captured, taken to the palace, and tortured without mercy!! We are only trying to protect ourselves here!!” The man spat excuse after excuse, trying to justify their position. I sat through his desperate speech, unfazed, then grinned sarcastically. “Is that so? I bet these sisters would have liked to save their own lives too,…
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Chapter 44 - Plotting in the DarkThat night, I visited the mansion designated by the old man. The building, located on the outskirts of the town, was completely dark: no lights were on, as if it was deserted. I had Sue and Sakuya return to the ship first: if anything happened, they were to leave me and escape from the port. I knocked on the backdoor five times, as the old man requested. “I have been expecting you. Please, this way.” The door was opened by the same old man I met earlier that day, now…
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Chapter 31 - The Queen of the Sea Birds Countless sea birds were flying over the port, mewing, cawing and crying. From their claws and beaks dangled pieces of rope lit on fire, which they dropped over the pirate ships. Some of the birds even carried glass bottles filled with oil, which helped spread the flames further. The fire eventually reached the pirates’ flaming arrows, explosives and gunpowder meant for the “Overthrower” cannon, setting off large explosions. Cue a series of deafening…
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Chapter 38 - Heartless One 【POV: A certain country’s minister】 My name is Samuel Lauros, I am a minister of the Garnet Kingdom, in the Southern Archipelago. More precisely, I “was” a minister. Several months ago, the Garnet Kingdom was taken over by a foreign country and had been effectively dismantled: my old title had little to no meaning anymore. Garnet had been destroyed by the Lion Kingdom, a pirate country. We had always been at odds with the outlaw state; in recent years,…
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Chapter 32 - The Battle Ends Another ship was rocked by explosions. “How…fearsome.” Sakuya was looking at the pirate ship going down in flames, her face paler than usual. After slaying all the pirates on the ship we’d boarded, we were observing the surrounding vessels. Of the circa 200 ships that composed the pirate fleet, more than half had already sunk. Before our eyes, another large ship was keeling over, dragging the smaller ships around it to the depths of the sea. “Who would have thought…
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