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But if you want to know THAT badly that you read this, remember that Zaelro Fastoff is:
- A geography/history/culture/language/folklore fanatic. This is where I say, 50% of him is me. Or that is before Falerin comes in and make his claim. And his interest in language and folklore (Language, not manga/anime) makes learning a language much easier for him. However, I WILL have to edit it more or less to make it more realistic.
- A born leader and strategist who just knows how to win people. (note, people =/= girls)
- Somewhat of a Russianophile. In that he knows more about Russia than even the standard Russian

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The Asgardian Steed could do the following:
- Innate Chronosphere i.e. freeze time.
- Summons a Thunder Sword into Temporary Slot whose power fluctuates with the user's intellect (As in, 100% Base/100% Random/200% Stat)
- Launches lightning bolts that does heavy damage.
- And a static field that paralyzes.

(Shouldn't this go to AQ Suggestion?)

For the Sunlight Steed, there are some ups and downs:
- Equipped Chronosphere, but not innate.
- Summons Light Brand whose power fluctuates with the user's intellect.
- Lay on Hands.
- Supports the Hadrian Sword of the Five Armies as discussed in later chapters.

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You are the only person, save the gods that can save Lore from the clutch of a power-hungry vampire."

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"Very well. You can go now" Zaelro said tiredly.

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- First, enforce means of blockade between Earth and Terra to avoid the rest of the Six Prime Treasures to follow suit.
- Second, embark the Gatekeepers to Earth to search for the lost set, and intercept it from falling into the wrong hands.
- Third, the ambassador needs to further maintain an effort to keep in close contact with the local officials to track down the threat, and coordinate action with the rest of the Gatekeepers to recover Gespenst and all of its parts in the shortest time available.

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In the Tsukihime fanfic I was planning, many of the twists and flicks could drive Falerin mad. Remember I killed The'Galin and Artix at the end of Book One of The Ascension? So basically you replace all instances of Argeus by Artix, and implying that Zaelro Fastoff is the next incarnation of The'Galin as opposed to SHIKI as the incarnation of Michael Roa Valdamjong, and you've got it.

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- Mina is convinced that Zaelro is a vampire and that misunderstanding wouldn't end for another 4 chapters.
- At least a fourth of Zaelro's 2000-man-strong army hates Takashi for obvious reason, and even when the misunderstanding has been revealed, at least 10% of them would persist.
- One of the generals of Zaelro's would not trust Mina (the German aristocrat) for reasons to be revealed.
- And there is always a fall guy to complicate things up even more.

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A vampire lord with four almost godlike lieutenants, three full Uber sets and part of another, as well as an alliance with the most militarist and technologically advanced nation of Terra is not a weak foe, by any means. Now, compare him to Michael Roa Valdamjong in Tsukihime who only had infinite reincarnation i.e. infinite Horcruxes and EoDP... No, he'd be much cooler than even Dracula as in Castlevania.

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warhorse fanboy

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Lieutenant General Nicolai Maximovich Peshkov’s appearance on that occasion was drastically different to his previous presence in Zaelro’s room, now that the nobleman had adorned a light breastplate engraved with a familial coat of arms, feathered cap and had a brown, healthy steed to accompany him.

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“Sire, my sword, my skills and my life is yours to command!”

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“This is just trickery of the mind, sire,” notified Oredin, “which would be removed as soon as you use your original eyesight of a deity.”

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Gregory Vassiliyevich would turn into a Japanese playboy whenever the glass was on, and back into a Cossack as soon as it was off.

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”Who say that learning Russian history, language and culture is useless?”

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Gregory Korsakov Vassiliyevich sat comfortably on horseback in a dark corner of the park, silently humming a Cossack folk song.

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The Cossack patted on his horse’s mane, lighting a cigarette, apparently enjoying whatever he was doing.

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The only thing he needed to was that this boy was his mission, and with all the honor of a Cossack he would point a pistol at himself before he would see the figure slip away.

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However, completing a mission is normally a completely different matter than just getting to the mission, because in due time, Gregory realized that it was being more of a test of patience that he was taking than a genuine, standard, traditional tracking operation that he was used to. Takashi had sat there for so long, as motionless as a clay statue that Gregory was almost convinced that if he abandoned his post for a couple of minute for a traditional round of vodka, nothing would have happened. However, the call of duty was excessively strong in Gregory, even compared to his peers, and he shrugged off that impression with ease. As a result, by then, Gregory had been sitting there observing for quite a long time, and the lack of activity on behalf of the observed was starting to become boring.

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A shimmering, yet faint and weak beam of light shone upon the boredom-ravaged Gregory reminded him of the time.

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Her wondrous, slender form was further stressed by her gracious long, winter dress and a light overcoat, that which fluttered in the wind in pretty much the same way her hair did.

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To Gregory’s surprise, the seemingly petrified Takashi Minamoto, for some reasons, suddenly opened his eyes wide, such that from a distance the Cossack almost got the feeling that his eyeballs were popping out of their sockets, as blood vessels beneath his pupils started to take shape, visible from a mile away.

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With a swift movement of his arms and lower body, the schoolboy pushed himself out of the bench as soon as the girl was a stride’s length from him, and the next thing that Gregory realized was Takashi, seemingly possessed, lunged at the beauty without saying a word, diving past her figure like the wind, gliding across the path for a couple of yards, before landing on his feet as skillfully as a professional acrobat having just completed an easy trick. Rolling his eyes at the radical development, Gregory was no doubt astonished, but the feeling of surprise quickly turned into horror when he realized the terrified look on the woman’s face as she looked down at her lower abdomen, where blood was trickling down slowly, droplet by droplet.

Time froze as Gregory realized what was happening: the trickling droplets of blood turned into a stream as the woman collapsed on the ground- in halves. As the dead young lady lay still in the pool of blood, Gregory managed to make out that whatever Takashi had done, it had apparently cleaved his victim cleanly into two in a split second, in the way his parents used to tell him how a mysterious Japanese samurai figure by the name Musashi Miyamoto would carry out his katana attacks for one-hit-kills.

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'Time froze as...' -> 'Time froze when Gregory...'
'As the dead young lady...' -> 'After the young lady had stopped twitching in the pool of blood...'

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His sword draw and in hand,

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In any case, his arrival at home was marked by overhearing the grandmother of the host family rambling about a missing chicken and a plethora of other food from the refrigerator, to which Zaelro snickered and silently tiptoed up his room.

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He had quite a lot of things at hand to do behind the closed doors of his chamber, homework being just one of which. Another thing he needed to do, according to what the “global nurse” reminded him of,

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Zaelro was on the verge of throwing his pen and ignore the chore when a whizzing, distorted sound of materials in the background being forcefully displaced sounded right behind him.

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Today, at 9.16 pm, the police patrols of the Central Park district had discovered an abnormal sight in the park. Along the benches in the southern walk, the patrols had found two pools of blood with various blood trails that lead to nowhere. The blood suggests that some extremely violent crime has taken place, but no dead body or body parts have been found.

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According to our newest report, the blood in the park is confirmed to be human blood, thusly the police has concluded that a violent, likely spree-killing homicide had taken place.

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failed to dissuade his subordinate in spite of his boasted intellect

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and successes

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- Oredin Kaledon: Experienced and wise, but often over-cautious, over-zaelous, over-loyal and takes too much responsibility for his own good.
- Sieur de l'Aquitaine: Think of Wallace in Fire Emblem VII: a late-middle aged hulking cavalier with a lot of brawl, some brain, a lot of knowledge on horses and a tendency to speak without thinking.
- Lord Jonathan of Norfolk: A young, energetic and resourceful knight who would have been no worse a womanizer as Sain in FE VII had he been alive.
- Count Schwagger of Hamburg: A noble nobleman whose loyalty is without question. However, detests the weak-minded and cowards to the point of a phobia.
- Lieutenant General Nicolai Maximovich Peshkov: A benevolent commander and a reliable man, but the most quick-tempered and rash of them all.

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Whatever happened, when there was no news, there is hope for the best.

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We hope that by next morning, we would have enough evidence to bring this terrible murderer to light and deal the required punishment.”

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In the normal case, yearning for vengeance for the death of a comrade is thoroughly within the norm of a normal human being. However, in this case, neither was the mission at hand an average, earthly one, nor was Zaelro a normal man.

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“Hi,” Zaelro tossed his backpack on the table, calling out to the girl in the table above,

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He should be absent from school for, like, half a week or so. But he is /definitely/ alive and kicking.”

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, “She is both our school’s pride and the wink of every one in school who is not female.”

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Zaelro was thoroughly startled by this movement.

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”So much for school today…” Zaelro thought helplessly.

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As he went on chanting the password, the vanishing accelerated, and in due time, Zaelro could no longer feel a thing in hiss body.

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Zaelro Fastoff’s first impression was a magnificent one. Before Zaelro now stood a majestic, stone-built castle, no less than a hundred feet in height.

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It was quite some time before Zaelro could straighten himself up from the profound awe, draw his sword and advanced straight towards the interior of the Headquarters of the 25th Valhallan regiment.

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She cannot bring herself to the fact that in everyday’s battle, people falls down like sheaves of wheat during harvest time, and so whenever her relative dies, it would strike her as a complete tragedy.

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“What kind of justice is that when you would seek to squander the lives of your soldiers on a personal vendetta when we have the fate of not one nation, not one continent, not one world, but TWO world at stake?”

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“Is it fair for your soldier whose life may be loss in this meaningless run of vengeance?

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“I have no reason to lie, General Peshkov. Even if that weren’t the truth, I believe Oredin Kaledon has already presented you will all the reasoning why this is not the time for you to carry out such radical actions,”

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“As of now, I haven’t fully believed that Takashi Minamoto has truly killed Sergeant Vassiliyevich.

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and within minutes, the army readying to depart into bloodshed just a while ago had been dismissed, and once again the courtyard was relieved of the commotion that wasn’t.

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“Sire, please forgive me, but it seems that you still haven’t believed in the fact that

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“Did I tell you that Mr. Hitoshi was, is, and shall be head-over-heel with Mina in the foreseeable future?”

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“And for today, it seems that Mina-senpai got a free period, so she came down for a walk in the schoolyard,

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As far as the unlikely commander was concerned, the condition of the neighborhood was working against his cause very much.

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The second speaker was quick to show herself, and before long, before Zaelro hovered a female being in silver armor, with one pair of fluffy, feather wing fully stretched behind her shoulder.

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“It’s valkyrie, Mr. Fastoff,” the winged being’s voice made it extremely had to say whether she was serious or joking. However, the latter is heavily implied, as the being slightly smiled as she finished her last word.

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And here it is, in the middle of the room for your convenience.”

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As Zaelro promptly, and with a clearly obvious degree of feverish haste, changed into his smart, outdoor-appropriate outfit of belted and buckled brown khakis trousers and striped shirt whose long sleeve was smartly rolled up to elbow length,

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“The pure golden mane it has dictates that the power of light within its even is even more powerful than its brothers and sisters.

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“Firstly, it could channel its own magic in unison with that of whosoever rides it, resulting in the manifestation of a golden blade of pure elemental light, which could be used as a devastating weapon for the magically adept.

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Yet, it wasn’t exactly due to his being a coward being frightened just by the average winter sky.

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Yet, to the proud Britons, to admit fear wasn’t quite an option to his ego.

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“Sire, there is little evidence that vampires would appear right out of the blues”

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The cold, dreary streets of Sankaku was deathly haunting and depressing,

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In one of the wide and spacious pavements devoid of any normal pedestrian,

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With nothing else known, it could only be said that she was either an angel or a beautiful demoness, but slightly slanting towards the latter.

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The whizzing sound of the sharp blades was distinctive and deadly- normally, a human with no special talent would be impaled the moment he noticed the projectile cutting into the air. But she was different than what she looked like…

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There, on the top of a steel column of a building under construction on the sideway stood a black-cloaked figure, eying interestingly at the attacked.

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The young woman eyed the attacker with a certain degree of contempt, like how a human would look at a worthless insect pestering hiss pantry that needed eradication.

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With the three last words, with lightning fast the princess produced from her trench coat another bundle of throwing dagger, and spread them in the space in front of her,

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There was a loud scream as the unlucky fall guy of the attacking army was turned into a hedgehog within seconds,

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As the Britons glanced at the victim, his eyes rolled,

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The young maiden’s voice rang beside Zaelro’s ears like a nightingale’s tone, soft, yet still sharp, passionate and feeling-conveying, leaving the hypnotized teen dazzled even more.

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The haste in which the young lady had been in when he stuck hiss arm out to take her on Steedy had resulted in her failing to take off her steel,

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Normally, with that much blood loss, a normal human could expect a coma and either an emergency blood transfusion or imminent death, whichever comes first.

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“Wow, your horse could speak?”

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“You could hear him as well?”

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Startled, the knight-to-be Britons could only turn his blade to tackle the dagger.

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Zaelro was far from that status, and as a result, it was no surprise that he was totally fallen by the quick move, being thrown off the horse and landing on the ground flatly on his back.

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Still recovering from the impact and scrawling to get back to upright position, Zaelro’s standing up was market by a dagger right next to his neck.

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As he shut his eyes and mentally braced for impact, however, an unexpected event suddenly happened.

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Rather, the hostage took all his might into his right elbow and delivered an extremely powerful, in ordinary human standard, blow at the creature behind him.

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As she slowly turned back to see what could have probably happened, Zaelro could already guess what had happened.

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Apparently, the escape and the battle that followed had strained his not-yet-battle-hardened more than his limits.

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The generals stood up, but their necks still bent, totally convincing Zaelro that his trusted knights have been too harsh on themselves.

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It was high time he find a way to deal with this being treated by a royalty while he had done barely anything noticeable.

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“Well, now that you are seated,” Zaelro began, not after all of them had been fully down, “allow me to ask, who had told you that I was attacked?”

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It was too early and unreliable to jump to the L-word, but Zaelro’s intention, putting it frankly, was far from pure.

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“Sire,” bowed Oredin, “if you would persist with that option of yours, I would like to inform you that your work in the foreseeable future would be double.

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Even the age-old wisdom that Oredin had won through the ages proved rather useless in that one instance, its owner sitting there, hand propping his chin, thinking rigorously.

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“You know, when you see a suffering right before your eyes and could do next to nothing to help ease that agony.”

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A slight chill ran down Zaelro’s spines.

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Zaelro said as he produced the offending music player, clicked a series of button to mute the sound,

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The last thing she did for him, as he could remember, was to deliver the steed to the one who needed it the most, which she carried out with perfect discreet.

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“Well, certainly I didn’t expect you to know about that,” Argeus said, shrugging both his shoulder and his wings.

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Aurora Set on a pole

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The old Gatekeeper got owned too quickly!

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from a big flirt who woos any male angel having a chance to work with her into a loving, loovable and devoted woman for the character bearing my forum name

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Argeus Elmarian Sunrise approaches Florine and asks her to join him on the hunt for the uncollected Ubers (I am using an AQ term for easier understanding).

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A person is killed. Do you blame the murderer or the murder weapon?

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In the original plan, the Golden Plate found its way to Zaelro, because the Prime Miser of Leprechaunia, Uncle Sham, (Yes, you read me right, the boss of the Golden Set Quest) stumbled upon Misaki by means of a portal failure, and "confiscated" Ciel's golden locket. Zaelro got mad, and summoned Oredin (Equipped with Shadow Spear) and beat the crap out of him.

In this new version, the situation is quite different and much more complicated though

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no one could recognize the lush, green and healthy glades that was itself in summer, just a couple of months ago

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The only evidence of a lively season passed in the frozen and desolate grove were clear steadfastness of the grandmother oak trees, still defiantly standing regardless of the frost and aridity, with its undaunted survival bearing its distinctive mark on their firm and far-from-lifeless trunks and barks.

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But at present, the slashing wind through the frosty air was all what a traveler could see within the glade.

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The emptiness of the place, devoid of any human life was primarily because of its seclusion from mortal life.

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not only did a majestic mountain range separate it from the southern Wheat County of Hadrius almost completely,

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as well as aid the destined heroes on their ascension to godliness when such dictated by divine wish.

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Never before had a fighter single-handedly defeated, and killed, an entire gatekeeper’s family, and got away with the ill-gotten gains.

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In just a couple of days, their pride was crushed like an insect as one after another of the treasures they were supposed to guard fell into unworthy hands, and worse of all, even their order itself was on the verge of annihilation.

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a lone, traveling figure trod hastily across the frozen path, leaving especially deep footprint wherever he stepped into the snow

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In stark contrast with the snow-laden breeze, the tail of the black cloak hung behind the traveler, leaving a trail of flowing black, almost turning its wearer into a walking shadow to the unaware beholders.

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In great harmony with the surrounding the structure stood,

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Nothing happened in around five seconds as the duo fixed gaze;

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while the visitor’s eyes were completely hollow of all feeling except for a rage that has consumed everything human in him.

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throwing his hood off the top of his head, revealing beneath it the face of a young man in his early 20s,

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“Are you god-fearing any more, son? Or has the trauma blinded you into this kind of heretic?”

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It is a big disgrace in Harlen Graminor’s life to have raised a student who proceeds to forget all the moral lessons he has learnt and thrown away all his beliefs just at a moment’s crisis!”

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“I have taught you everything you know, son,” the old gatekeeper said fiercely as he unleashed his own weapon- the standard steel longsword of the gatekeepers engraved with the crest of their respective Divine God; in this case, that of the God of Light – and pointed at the offending student. “Your last mistake is to believe that you can defeat me.”

The next thing the old gatekeeper realized was his student returning him such a gaze as if he had officially been named Frasden’s worst enemies. Sighing, the gold-cloaked gatekeeper saw that there was just no hope for the junior Gatekeeper by now. Shaking his head for one last time, as if struggling to free himself from the last bound of relationship, Harlen Graminor charged forward at his former student, and the youth in question followed suit quickly after that.

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and there, from his chest emerged a bloody blade- soaked in his own blood.

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The news of the traitor Gatekeeper’s heist spread like wildfire along all levels along the chains of command of any organization reporting to the six gods of Higher Heaven.

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as if there was an unknown devotion unbeknownst to her before she met him.

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Zaelro going into a godlike trance and smash Frasden into nothingness.

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for fear that the mace would take over your character and make him/her a god

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In the original, Eye of Death Perception + Nanaya Shiki = Uncreated Nero. In this, Demon Form + Takashi Minamoto + Sword of the Five Armies + <insert random number from 1 to 2500 here> soldiers of the 25th Valhallan Regiment + Zaelro with the Paladin Blade = Nero Chaos Equivalent death for the FIRST TIME. Note the block letter.