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Joey's ruined corpse collapsed in a heap, his headless upper body charred to a black ruin by Cursed Fire. It broke apart into a scatter of ashen fragments on impact.
From the Seed of Eden's storage space, Avia drew a syringe filled with vivid crimson fluid. She plunged the needle into her chest and pushed the contents in. Color slowly returned to her pale cheeks. Breathing out, she pressed her hand against the Perfect Fractal lens that crowned her right eye.
Not far away, Wang Yu was once more locked in combat with Wood. The Divine Scales persisted, though not for much longer. Bloodforged fists ripped through the air toward Wood, who relied on his agility to weave and slip aside.
Wang Yu could feel his opponent's fighting spirit waning. At this range, in such close quarters, the two fighters could read the other's intent in a handful of choices: a shift in tempo, a twitch of muscle.
After Joey had perished to Avia's spell, this knight had abandoned the goal of killing them. Instead, he fought only to save himself, leaning on the brief surge of power that had elevated him to the threshold of a high-ranking grand knight.
"The alchemical legions must have reached the outskirts by now," Wang Yu thought....
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