Stratothrax

Chapter 195

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For a moment Rain wondered what she was talking about with this talk of 'golem' (himself?), but then the wind physically took hold of the blue scaled fish girl and snatched her away from his reach. He growled in frustration as she vanished into the shifting winds.

Winds which were rapidly changing direction.

He looked around, alarmed, as the turbulence started to organise, becoming a channelled fury, rivers with a current, rivers that all focused ...

Chapter 194

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The sand filled air billowed and churned, curling in on itself like a twisting sinuous knot, directionless wind that seemed lost in its aimless charge.

Sand slashed against the sand wolf, hammering at it and eroding its shape. But for every grain displaced another deposited by the wind took its place, seeming to stick to its surface from some unknowable force.

The sand wolf stepped into this sandy maelstrom, blinking and squinting through its two ...

Opal on a mission

Chapter 193

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Rain stood on the newly made and worryingly slender tower. The tower wasn't very stable because it was so thin and he could feel the thing swaying alarmingly as he neared the edge and looked down.

The arena was far below and there was Thadeus at the base of the tower. He didn't look like he was doing very well. The centaur was lying unmoving on the sand, a lake of fresh blood surrounding him. As Rain watched a number of men who worked for the Abattoir gang rushed ...

Chapter 192

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Rain could hear Triskian choking on his tongue behind him as his heavy bass voice filled the pit, speaking aloud for the first time.

The centaur gave him a surprised look. Then he smiled, flashing thick gravestone like teeth.

"Ah a talker. I do prefer it when monster's talk, it's a tell all of its own." He paused. "Less so when it's a panthara, those things should never speak. But you don't seem the same. A simpler kind of monster, lacking in cunn...

Opal and Lyra

Chapter 191

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The kobold only had a moment to stare and wonder at the strange leveler who had spared her only to be killed when Ravoure caught sight of them from nearby.

"Bastial!"

He rushed forward and fell to his knees, fumbling for her, rolling her onto her back. But she was as dead as any of the monsters scattered on the sands.

"There was a guarantee! This isn't supposed to happen," he snapped.

He suddenly reached out and grabbed the blue kobold...

Chapter 190

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The crowd murmured as they looked down at the beheaded panthara, its corpse motionless in that quiet stillness of the dead, almost eerie, or rather very eerie, as its decapitated head grinned up at them.

The worried murmuring rose, becoming a low grumbling susurration and Triskian stepped up beside Quistis, keeping his voice low.

"We should step in before we start getting people asking to leave."

Quistis nodded and spoke aloud to the crowd.<...

Chapter 189

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After the mermaid a number of auctions were fielded and won by the various levelers. Drakes and humans and lapine and more each won their bids, dropping down into the arena to take their kill, darting around the corpse of the golden mermaid as they did battle, sometimes even using her body to their advantage.

Most won, although a number overestimated their ability and power, or were disadvantaged by Rain's manipulation, and they had to be rescued by Qui...

Chapter 188

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Rain eased back, a long slow steady breath leaving his lips as he settled his jangling nerves.

He had been sure he was going to do something rash at so many points after Lyra had dropped down into the sandy arena to fight the chimaera, but somehow not only had she managed to make it out alive, but she along with Opal had managed to kill the chimaera. Not bad for two pregnant girls, one of which had a non-offensive Class, the other a goblin.

He'd n...

Chapter 187

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Rain slapped his paws to his face and dragged them down his cheeks as he watched in disbelief as Lyra jumped down into the arena.

How had it come to this?!

He was the one who had come down here to fight monsters, yet somehow he had ended up trapped and sitting in the audience watching as his girls did the fighting, his pregnant girls, in Opal's case, heavily pregnant.

It was like some kind of nightmare!

Worse, he couldn't realistically...

Chapter 186

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Lyra looked down in dismay at Opal with her winning bid, she had just…

Well, maybe she should have seen this coming.

When Rain had been taken by the lamia and disappeared inside the building behind the minotaur, both she and Opal had shared a moment of silent panic. They had no real certainty if he had been taken by the Abattoir or if this was some other unsavoury gang. Nor could they know what would happen. Would he be killed? Or just enslaved?...

Chapter 185

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The man raised one jewel encrusted fist and then a lot of things happened at once.

Each of his fingers appeared to have at least six different rings crammed onto them including his thumb, which made for at least thirty different rings of various metals, all of them embedded with some glittering gemstone, many of them glowing. As he brought his fist up the things went berserk, flashes of colour and sound emanating and then a dozen different fireballs exp...

Chapter 184

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The feeling of fuzzy mindedness lifted slowly, but it did lift.

Any soporific effect was never going to last of course, because Rain's body gradually devoured the invader the same as it would any toxin or poison, Quistis's tricks were no exception.

With the clarity the pain returned, the sharpening of his mind coming with a jaw throbbing ache. He tongued the cuts in his mouth, small bloody slots that had been cut into his gums, into his cheek, and...

Chapter 183

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"Why are all the monsters gone! Why are they all gone!?"

Screamed the sandy scaled drake as he turned the corner.

"What the fuck is happening Quistis?!"

The large black scaled lamia slithered into the scatter of ruins that held Rain and the two girl's cages, her lips set in an irritated line, a number of men following behind her.

Her gaze found Rain and her eyes narrowed.

"I don't know, but the new ones are still...

Chapter 182

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Rain sat cross legged in the middle of his cell, blood occasionally drip-dripping from his muzzle or rolling down his fur to add to the lake of blood surrounding him.

Despite his gory and intimidating state Rain was relatively tranquil, with his paws resting in his lap and his eyes closed, chest rising and falling in long slow steady breaths.

He had levelled up more than he had expected to after killing so many of the monsters here, an astounding ...

Chapter 181

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Rain held a bundle of pink tentacles in arm as he walked and snacked, wandering through the ruins, his paw occasionally lifting as he casually grazed on a new tentacle as though picking from a plate of chicken. They were quite delicious, like a salty fried seafood, although the giant ball of tentacles he had taken them from hadn't been particularly happy about the loss, neither had it been happy about him eating the rest of it.

He had eaten… well. A <...

Chapter 180

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Rain stepped clear of his cage, footpads coming back down onto sand, and of course, freedom.

He hadn't liked being caged, cages were the antithesis of being a predator, because a caged predator was no longer a predator, they were prey. Just leaving such a place made his mind settle, and determination fill him, the urge to hunt making his claws twitch.

The sound of feet slapping on metal came from the side and then hands clapping onto bars. He turned his head...

Chapter 179

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One flap of its wings was all it took. One moment the chimaera was stationary, the next it was nearly on Quistis, launched through the air at frightening speed, like a bolt from a highly strung ballista. Quistis's arms shot up at the last possible moment, a wall of smoke rising that then peeled away revealing a stone wall formed beneath. The chimaera instantly twisted in mid air, crashing into it with its back hooves then launching itself free, the wall disin...

Chaper 178

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The snake jerked to the side, missing being skewered by the very tip of the spear, the blade skittering off its scales as it passed.

The drake danced by with it, flowing with the motion and turning his miss-balanced lunge into an elegant spin then flipping over the top of the spear as it plunged down into the sand, tail and legs kicking up as he went over top. The snake's tail whipped around in an instantaneous counter, plumes of sand flying into the ai...

Chapter 177

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The lamia looked Rain over as he stood awkwardly in what appeared to be someone's living                                                               &n...

Chapter 176

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A Minotaur was sitting on a step at the end of the alley, playing cards alone, one hoof lazily tapping on the cobble. He turned over a card, a queen, a dragon queen, and clucked his tongue in annoyance.

He picked up the card with chipped nails and wiped a few scattered droplets of rain from its surface, squinting down at the illustration as if hoping that if he stared hard enough the card would change.

No such luck.

Lyra and Opal peered at t...

Chapter 175

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Jilli sat at the cafe table and tried very very hard to ignore the thing sitting next to her.

Oh how she wished she had never left Florens after the party. Even staying with Bane would have been better, the study session she had got in while watching him hadn't even been that bad even if he was an intimidating presence.

But no, she had ridden out from the city with her master and to a prison in the mountains to find a man with his symbiotic eel…...

Chapter 174

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The sun beat down overhead and the air sizzled. The sound of insects provided background noise and songbirds chirped softly in the courtyard's one tree. Rain gazed up at the endless sky as he lay against the trunk, his view partially obscured by the leaves. Sunlight dappled across his body, the leafy shadows shifting in the breeze.

It was an incredibly soothing day, one that demanded sunbathing and cool drinks and body weary peace, relaxation to the bon...

Chapter 173

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Erin shifted across the rooftops, footsteps as silent as snow drops, a lightness of foot on tile gained from long experience hunting in the night, hunting from home to home. A red shadow that slipped through the night like an assassin.

Yes this was more like it, good and respectable traditional succubus hunting, prowling through an urban area and slipping into bedrooms unnoticed to drain the occupants dry. It was almost nostalgic, she had done it a numb...

Chapter 172

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A metal gauntlet burst from the rubble and gripped down on stone.

The black cloaked figure rose from the rubble, mortar, and chunks of wall and timber shedding from the fabric as he emerged.

He stood tall on the great hill that was all that remained of what had once been a

massive storehouse, complete destruction created with his own body being used as a makeshift flail by a certain brute of a wolf monster.

Bane scowled beneath his hoo...

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Opal Key Art (Eater of cities tier)

Opal Key Art 2

Chapter 171

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Opal shuffled through her notes, smol tongue poking from the corner of her mouth. There were rather a lot of notes. The dwarf who had told them about the gangs had gone into fairly extreme detail, even calling in a few dwarf friends to add to the information in excruciatingly more detail. It was a good thing that she had mostly mastered writing by this point, although Rain kept on about her perfectly awesome scratchy handwriting style. Hell it wasn't like he could talk,...