Advent of the Three Calamities

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Empire's Seven

ned to fill a position that had remained vacant for

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room. It lacked substance and yet s

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mental and..

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. To study emotions... Understand them.

... and you might end up

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of him, the door to the room opened.

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sion of Julien was on

density is light and he doesn't

he wasn't the only one who th

of a bust. Disappointing con

on Herman's right, shared

st glance, he doesn't seem to know how to pr

ave come in vain. His performance was going to b

thing to take note of

... His expressionless fac

exude boundle

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of nonsense

pressed against his forearm, Julien

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ly pointed

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reverberated loudly in the

motionless, not just Herman, Herber

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on the young man tha

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erman mumble

and an emotion one

erience it. Everyone in the room w

y Emotive Mages. From there, they learned of the har

one must relentles

the middle of training, or simply not

ye

raining did he undergo t

't. He was far from perfection, but to

sh has he bee

of Julien underwen

rtray fear, but he also seems to hav

d after. A state where one could

checked his pu

condition bef

onst

total m

may as

ok hold of the room, briefly glancing at the trembling Jas

do to be able to do this? And

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his head and s

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t their expres

ntire time, with her gaze seemingly never deta

u know your results after we've

ed out of the room. It was as if he ha

man and the other

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h.

en everyone fin

lease help m

ion. Tell someone to replace him and send him t

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d to stop the other ex

now more about

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to lea

th

u know your results after we've

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ere safe... A bathroom

something rising from my stomach. Swal

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front of me away an

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. A room...

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seemed more repulsive than the

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let this

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take away from the fe

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ll trembling but

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ned the

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be able to

passed when I was finally

didn't

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om, I traced my finge

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, strange powers and visi

head and a conclusion drew up in my mind. O

the game,

he Three C

never played it before, but from what I was to

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reason wa

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t was dark outside so it was hard to s

my refl

line, he appeared to epitomize perfection solely thr

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but as I pinched my cheek, t

. This i

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calm but all I f

t

oor creaked u

gered over the room a

n the puke on the ground

t

anothe

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feel like

t

in fron

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who ar

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traced dow

t him. Who

he was certain that I wasn't the

was r

asn

tip of the sword that was pointe

u look a

the time came for me to fe

on with what I'd experienced

my head s

es you th

mer than I thought it'd co

pulled

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hat

d he have

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back to th

ke me to be th

ll tr

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d to my neck and tried to pull it aw

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tte

, the blade w

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see

nd stared

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ped me calm d

g as fast as it was before, a

..

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with each other, neith

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n interest

and listened

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ht

t a norma

e stunned all the judges in his performance. So m

me with a mea

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h

nally dawn

ive up to this point and why

was

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ped the blade

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falte

d my ri

down onto my forearm. It was quite t

id was t

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him to react the

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front of me and broug

u react if I tri

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the young master he knew. His demeanor

calm

as sur

not Julien

was certain of it. He had first noti

strangel

ng considering ho

bably ner

about how he had probably been

u

examinatio

ght out from the examination room on a stretcher.

someone lik

him too. He was really handso

t impossible for him to

sitate to lo

d.

you, was

press Julien's neck, he tigh

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sure of

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ed so familiar with su

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nto a smirk. Taun

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sp of the sword and dug the sw

s a t

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was

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ts, he tapped the

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