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She wore dark, practical clothing, with her entire posture screaming the opposite of welcome.
You learn a lot about a person from how they lie.”
“That man Koenig who used to work for you when I first started. He liked to climb mountains, didn’t he?” “He did, indeed,” Emir said. “He was quite the enthusiast.” “What happened to him?” “He fell off a mountain and died.”
Next thing you know, I’ll be building a weather machine in a mountain fortress carved into the shape of my own head.”
Nothing can hurt you as badly as hope.”
“Kicking a guy in the beans and then running for it is not fighting.” “It got me this far.”
Using the power of your position to force women into sleeping with you? That’s about as sleazy as it gets.
Essences are power, and power doesn’t change you. It reveals you. Give someone the power to be who they always wanted, and you will see who they always wanted to be.
“I have to end things. Between you and I.” He was going to ask why, but his brain beat his mouth. “The demotion,” he said. “I’ve received a lot of privileges, being part of my family,” she said. Her beautiful face was sunken, reluctant, but determined. “There are responsibilities that come with it, too. I have to find a match that makes the family stronger.”
“I’d respond to that, but she already knows what I have to say because I do. In case she doesn’t tell you, it involved a lot of bad language and several physiologically implausible suggestions.”
Our main chrcter is a bit of a fucker
She knows everything, but that gives her a blind spot. She is as close as anyone to seeing a person’s optimal choice in any situation, yet we constantly act against our own interest. It must drive her crazy.”
“We will talk again, Jason Asano. I hope to find that with a cooler head, you make better choices.” She vanished, leaving Jason alone. “I’ve got some bad news for you lady,” he said to the air. “Making bad life choices is kind of my thing.”
She hunted up Emir’s library or, as it turned out, libraries. They had a disappointing deficit of romantic potboilers, though.
“You’ve been surviving the hard way your whole life. Six months ago, I was assistant manager at a retail bulk office supplier.” “I don’t know what that is.” “Probably for the best,”
“He certainly keeps exciting company,” Emir had told her the night before. “I mean, look at us; we’re no deities, but still. A professional thief and a gold-rank adventurer? The most exciting person I knew at iron-rank was a guy named Brian who could conjure a huge metal duck.”
“You should always welcome being proven wrong,” Jason said. “It means your understanding of the world just got a little bit better.”
“I'm not saying I always welcome being wrong in the moment,” Jason acknowledged. “The important thing is to reflect on it and accept it going forward.”
A tentacle wrapped around Sophie's other arm, the first one already having been caught up. The fleshy blob of the monster's main body sported many prehensile tentacles
Oh no dd it switch to hentai
“It was alright,” Jason said. “Not great. You’re bleeding all over, your clothes are in tatters. You almost let that thing go full hentai monster on you.”
Haha
“Getting tired of money literally falling out of the sky is a problem I’ll be happy to have.”
“Why would you lie and claim you were bitten on the head?” she asked. “I’m not lying,” Jason said. “I definitely didn’t get woozy after the fight from teleporting too much while hungover and hit my head on a log.”
SOunds like something dylan would say
“This is it,” he said happily. “People talk about the money and the power but this is the adventuring life I want. Meandering through beautiful places with a good friend and a beautiful woman who may or may not be waiting for the chance to snap my neck and run for it.”
Money and power have to be a means, not an end, or you'll lead a joyless life.”
“What are you doing here, Lindy?” Sophie asked. “Complicated magic with the fate of the world at stake,” Belinda said causally. “You?” “It’s getting late and I was offered a hammock.” “My thing is more exciting,” Belinda said. “Sounds like it.
Cute
“I suppose I could be considered a heretic,” Clive said. “The same way that the exploitation of rigid dogma to act out personal prejudice could be considered faith.”
suspiciously suspicious people to be suspicious of.
Puppy Stash let out a little whine, giving Humphrey a pouty look before transforming into a bird. “No!” Humphrey yelled as bird Stash leapt from his hand and promptly got sucked through the magical ring at the rear as it pulled air through itself to propel the boat. “Again?” Clive asked as he slowed down the airboat. “Every time, this happens.” “You’ve heard me tell him,” Humphrey said. “You need to get control of your familiar,” Clive said. “You aren’t in any more control of your familiar,” Humphrey said. “It’s just so slow that you can’t tell it’s running away.”
Me trusting maui
“Cripes,
The raft wasn’t large, but had just enough room for Humphrey, Sophie and Clive. Clive sat sodden at the front, his wet clothes tracing out his lanky frame. With a hand on a metal panel near the front of the otherwise wooden raft, he magically directed it to drift slowly in the direction of the colourful vortex. Jason walked alongside, his cloak both letting him walk on water and keeping off the rain.
WHy dont they have sophie run like a moter for a little while
egalitarianism.”
Why we gotta use such big words
“Even in less comfortable conditions, I’m very quick to finish.”
Hehe
you have always given my son loyalty he sadly never earned.
“How did you make these kinds of political allies in five months?” “I didn’t,” Jason said. “I made friends.”
Hudson was a huge, comic book character of a man
I know a guy named george who is a huge muscle man dosnt even look real
Clive looked up at Humphrey, more than a hundred metres in the air, then down at the charging Dustin. He smiled and chanted a spell. “Exchange your fates.” Suddenly Humphrey was standing where Dustin had been charging Clive. Rick looked over in confusion, then up at the sky as a sound grew louder and louder. Dustin’s scream came to an end at the same time his fall did.
Rough way to die
What happened to the man who was eager to train?” “I want to train the things I’m good at.”
Seriojsly
“Neil’s an elf?” Belinda asked. “Yes, I’m an elf!” “You are quite hefty for an elf.” “My proportions are perfectly normal!”
Poor neil
“Especially when you run around making high-ranking enemies, the way Jason does,” Gary said. “What are you talking about?” Jason said. “Everybody loves me.”
COnfident
“Jason is now the focal point of this iron-rank mess Emir has made,” Gabriel said. “He’s close with Emir, but suddenly outside of Emir’s protection. There wouldn’t be a much better way to muddy the waters than implant Jason with a star seed, which we’re hoping they attempt.”
“Children aren't a time-effective proposition.”
Ouch
“Nothing,” Jason said, his eyes on the distant team. “Is that what female leonids look like? I hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me.”
Cough cough
“They’re at it again,” Jason said. “The church of Purity has teamed up with some interdimensional turd nugget to strip-mine astral spaces.”
I forgot to note ny shock with anissa and the church of purity. I was s shocked i anted to tell you right away and spoil it
Theyre wasting their 18 days with her meditating
Twig person, more like twink person. lol jk
“What's Christmas?” “It’s a religious holiday that we appropriated to stimulate the economy once a year,” Jason said.
“I have a soft spot for poor but flamboyant choices.”
They really are just pushing luck with the time restraints
“I kind of just wanted to sleep,” Beth said. “I think everyone just wanted to sleep,” Humphrey said. “So why are we having a party?” “We were outvoted by Jason and the prince.” “How do two people outvote twenty-nine?” “I’m not sure,” Humphrey said, “but I think we may need to keep those two apart.”
They did not mention the treasure from the plant monster I too am interested
😲😲😲😲
