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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The party had taken flight in their airship, heading right for Wuste, as instructed by Fallen's mother./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"While everyone was getting prepared for the upcoming battle, Fallen was keeping an eye on Folgen, seeing she was slowly beginning to melt off of the ice she was encased in. Even if it was to defend herself, Fallen still felt shame for doing this to her dear sister. "Sorry, Folgen. Even if you can't hear me right now… just know I am sorry for what I did."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"She simply lives with the consequence of her actions." Imbir spoke up, being nearby. "It's pretty harsh, but she should have known what would happen."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"What she expected was to win. Not be beaten." Fallen pointed out. "I guess she didn't expect me to truly fight back when she tried to kill me."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Imbir looked at Folgen's near frozen state, as he approached her and Fallen. "Could you move aside for a moment?" Imbir asked of /br /Fallen raised her eyebrow for a moment, as she soon scooted to the side./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Imbir soon brought his hand to her thighs, patting them for a moment, one of the melting parts of her body. His right hand stopped right around her knees, as he then lifted her dress up./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"But what Fallen was shocked by was not what Imbir was doing, but what she saw. Bruises and cuts all over Folgen's leg. And a knife that was concealed underneath./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Just as I thought." Imbir said, as he then took the knife out of it's sheath. "A backup plan."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen was silent, her eyes still on the details of her sister's legs. "What the hell happened?" She whispered to herself, wondering what she had endured. Or what caused all of this./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Perhaps we can ask her when we defeat the Erpel. If she's conscious by then." Imbir suggested. "We can always have Kurve watch over her."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Maybe." Fallen said. She gave her sister's leg one last good look, having left a lot to wonder on what had happened. "I'm just worried what will happen to Kurve if she wakes up. If Folgen will try to attack her."br /br /Imbir was silent for a few seconds. "Him."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"What?" Fallen asked./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Kurve's a boy." Imbir /br /"Oh…" Fallen said, sounding surprised./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Though, I understand what you worry about." Imbir said, going back to the subject. "But Kurve's a black mage, from what I see. He can defend himself."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"I suppose. But he's only a kid. That's what really worries me." Fallen admitted. "But if I worry too much it'll probably make me lose focus on the Erpel." She looked down at her hands, falling silent./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"He'll be okay." Imbir assured. "Sure, I don't really know the kid. But something tells me he's tougher than he looks."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Yeah. I guess you're right." Fallen said, falling silence once more./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Throughout the ride, the party, excluding Fallen and Imbir, spoke about what was to come. And about the party's skepticism about the Ehre family's involvement. While they weren't complaining, there was something most of them agreed on: it was too good to be true. To have help as big as this./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Bereit mentioned that there was no way they were gonna have help like this for long. Something bad was gonna happen. And they'd be alone again on this adventure./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"But Bereit knew full well not to jinx it, after having being warned by Vanessa about it./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Soon, everyone made it to Wuste, landing right nearby the fortress of stone, Cid making sure not to land anywhere that could be carpet bombing territory./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The party stepped right out of the airship. Though, Bereit looked back to see Kurve was joining them. He turned back to look at him. "Kurve, we're about to fight an Erpel. You sure you want to come along?"/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Kurve nodded. "You helped me find a home. So I wanna help."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"I get that but… this is a life or death situation. And you're so young. Do you really want to risk your life so head on?" Bereit asked, wanting to make sure his decision was final. He didn't want to cause the death of a child. Though, Kurve's age was a mystery to him. For all he knew his kind was years older than humans./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"I'll just keep my distance." Kurve promised. "I won't get in the way."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"He took a deep breath in thought, thinking that is was a bad idea. But… maybe he really was going to be okay. He made it this far on his own. At least until they found him. "Alright. Just be really, really careful, okay?" Bereit asked of him./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Kurve nodded, his big hat waving with the hair-like tendrils on his head./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Good." Bereit then looked at everybody. "Alright… so this our second Erpel. We got the Ifrit Erpel. Now, we're gonna get Titan Erpel. And after that… we've got Shiva, Ramuh, then Alexander."br /br /"And that sixth Erpel symbol… who knows what that one is…" Fallen commented./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Right." Bereit nodded, feeling uneasy about that. If the Erpel they killed was as hard as it was, he could only imagine what the last one is like. It was scary to think about./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Hey… you guys hear that?" Vanessa spoke up, as there was a faint noise coming from the sky. Everyone looked around in the air, Scharf standing right where he was, and looked towards the ocean. Or at least where it was closest./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Right over there." Scharf told the party, pointing right to the ocean that was distant. "The Valkyrie's here."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The whole party looked over to the ocean where Scharf pointed to. And they would see several airships coming their way. There was tension among everyone, knowing what was to come./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Though, Kurve and Zelkova weren't so sure on what they were about to witness./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Two airships stopped right next to where the party was, while four others would fly right over the fortress of stone. They would watch as bombs were dropped right from the airship. Lines upon lines of fiery explosions laid waste to the fortress of stone./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Scharf couldn't help but laugh at the sight, clapping sarcastically as if it was just a firework show./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Though, Zelkova and Kurve watched the horror of what the Ehre family was capable. The entire fortress, up in smoke, and completely obliterated in seconds. This kind of destructive power was scary and alien to them. It left them both wondering what else they were capable. And what they could possibly want gone, in seconds./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The two airships soon landed, as soldiers with rifles and armour came out of them in groups./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"And behind them all, Tier walked right out. It was an odd sight, seeing all those armoured soldiers come out in groups and with matching rifles. And then came Tier, with her beast-ish appearance, which really showed what kind of person she was. Or perhaps her profession./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Tier clapped her hands together and rubbed them. "Alright, ladies!" She said, seeming somehow calm about what was happening. "Let's slay us an Erpel, eh?"/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"You're pretty cocky for someone who's never faced one yet." Imbir commented./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"I have you guys by my side. I'd say the odds are stacked in my… or, our favour." Tier explained to Imbir. The party was silent from her comment, Tier soon laughed. "Ah, come on, let loose you guys. We got this."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"And right when she said that, there was a rumble coming from the Fortress of Stone. She pursed her lips a bit. "Spoke too soon?" She said sheepishly. The Titan Erpel came right out of the broken fortress. The Erpel had scales coated in stone, solidified earth and sand. Titan was the bigger among the Erpels. It came running for the party, as it swung it's wings at them, launching razor sharp rocks at them./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Hit the deck!" Imbir warned everyone./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen stood forward as she threw her staff up. "Shiva! Give us an ice wall!" She asked of her, as then a thick wall of ice came to appear in front of them, blocking off the stones that came their way./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Alright! Let's do this!" Tier said, as she then raised her arms up, forming her hands as if they were claws. "Wolves! Go!" She shouted, as shadowy wolves came from the grounds and charged at Titan./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen brought the ice wall down, the stones falling to the sand. The soldiers all brought their guns up, aiming at Titan. "Open fire!" The forward most soldier called out. Soon, a storm of bullets stormed the Titan, as scratches and holes were left all over Titan. But that sure as hell wasn't to bring it down./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Titan came running at the entire group, it's body hardening with the stones coming together. Everybody scattered as it came to them, Titan sending the landed airships flying with a body check./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The entire party was scattered, being in either groups of two or three./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"That armour is tough." Tier announced. "Got any ideas to punch through?" She asked Bereit who was right next to him./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"br /Bereit eyed Imbir and Scharf, knowing they both had a few means. "I have an idea." Bereit told her, as he then stood up. "Scharf!" He called out to him. "Get far away and get your gun ready! We need to punch through it's armour!"br /br /"You got it, kid!" Scharf said, as he retreated to the higher points of the sand filled hills./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Imbir, you've got anything that can punch through it's skin?!" Bereit called out to him./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Watch out!" Tier warned, as she jumped away./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Bereit saw the Titan threw sharp shards of stone at him, jumping away from it./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Yeah, but getting an explosive bullet underneath it's armour would really do some damage!" Imbir informed him, as he took his gun out of it's holster. "Wanna give me a hand?!"/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Leave that to me!" Tier offered. "I'll have my pets tear an opening with no issue!" She then brought her arms up again, as then a shadowy bull came to be, having horns especially large and sharp. She brought her arm forward, the bull scraping it's hoof on the ground. It then charged forward and rammed right into the side of the Erpel, breaking into it's armour. The bull disappeared, leaving the punctures open./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"They were big enough, but getting a shot in was gonna be tough. But Imbir had a plan. He looked over to Tier. "Tier, think one of your animals could throw it in?" He asked her. It seemed the entire party was acknowledging Tier's helpfulness./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Not a problem. Just need a bit of a distraction." Tier informed them./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Say no more." Bereit said, as he then made lightning emit from his hand. Though, he noticed that Titan was swarming the other party members./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Kurve was kept a fair distance thanks to Zelkova, as he was healing some of the wounded soldiers./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"As for Fallen, she was avoiding the Erpel as much as she could, while she had Shiva keep her attention from her onslaught of bone chilling attacks./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Looks like your sister is doing all the distracting you need." Bereit told Tier./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Well, she always caught the eyes of many." Tier said, winking to Bereit in a playful. "Imbir, throw it to me!"/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Imbir nodded, soon twisting the bullet and then threw it towards Tier. She then made a shadowy snake come from the ground and swallow the grenade whole, leaving it with a big bump in it's belly./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Titan kept attacking Shiva, their attacks of elemental shards shattering and colliding constantly./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Tier's shadow snake soon dug right into the opening of Titan's skin. It took a few seconds before the explosion went off, breaking a big part of Titan's armour, leaving exposed flesh. A point of vulnerability./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"That's one spot! But we could lose some more of that armour!" Imbir said, as he then loaded another explosive shot, thinking he could simply aim for this one./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Scharf's got your back on that one, Imbir! I'll come in and provide distractions!" Bereit said, as he ran for Titan, Tier doing the same./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"3/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"rd/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;" person (Scharf)/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Scharf had readied himself way up on the sandy hill, his eye resting just behind the scope, his sight aimed right for Titan. /spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"He turned the small dial at the top of the scope to zoom in, slowly getting a clearer view of the chaos happening around the Erpel. However, from the corner of the scope, he saw Kurve waving his big sleeves, right at his direction./span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"What is that kid up to?" He whispered, seeing Kurve was showing a stone in his hand, and pointing to it. He then made a motion of it crashing down, as if… it was crashing down on something? "Wait, he's a black mage… I get it." He then showed a wave of his hand, as if to signal he understood./span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"He brought his sight back to Titan, taking a deep breath./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"3/span/span/span/spanspan style="color: #000000;"supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"rd/span/span/span/sup/spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US" person (Kurve)/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Kurve stood right up, as he ran towards Titan./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Kurve, where are you going?" Zelkova asked worriedly./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"I'm gonna help everybody break through the armour of the Erp… thing." Kurve answered him./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"But-"/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Trust me!" Kurve told him. "I can help. I'm not just some kid."/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Zelkova sighed. "Fine… but be careful, okay? I don't want to see you hurt."/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Kurve shook his head, his hair-like tendrils shaking with his head. "I'll be okay. I promise." He then ran for Titan, before he came to a halt a few meters away from it. He knelt down and put his hands to the warm sands. The ground shook around him, the sands moving as well./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Fallen saw Kurve from the corner of her eye, seeing what he was trying to do. She was about to say something about what he was attempting to do, but she was immediately met with a strong whip of Titan's tail, sending her flying and tumbling back. She was left winded, holding her upper-torso, gasping for air./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Witnessing that, it drove Kurve to put more power into this spell. To save his friends. Soon, gigantic stones came from below, resembling some kind of ruins. He made them rise high up in the air, his hands going as high as his hands could be./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"3/span/span/span/spanspan style="color: #000000;"supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"rd/span/span/span/sup/spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US" person (Scharf)/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Whoa… not bad, kid." Scharf said, smiling a bit./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"3/span/span/span/spanspan style="color: #000000;"supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"rd/span/span/span/sup/spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US" person (Kurve)/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Mr. Bereit!" Kurve called out. "Can you and the others keep it still!?" Kurve asked./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Leave it to us!" Bereit assured with a small salute to Kurve./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Kurve watched as there was continuous bullets flying about, occasionally coming to a halt to avoid shooting any of his companions. He then witnessed the power of Bereit. He saw him jump right into the back of the Erpel, and conjure a spear of lightning in his hand. He soon leaped to the wing and brought it down on the webbing of it's wing, stopping it right in it's tracks./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Tier did her part, if not in an odd way, but summoning a shadowy elephant right on top of it, pinning it to the ground./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Fallen chipped in and had Shiva freeze it's other wing to keep Titan from moving./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Earthaga!" With that, Kurve swung his arms down, the ruins that came down with them. Tier's beast disappeared, so the group would witness the destruction Kurve's magic would cause. Any stone armour Titan had was shattered, or left in shambles, and scattered about the battlefield. "I got it! I got it!" Kurve said happily./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"And soon, the distant shots of Scharf's sniper was heard. Every shot that hit would make Titan recoil back as they punctured the skin./span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"3/span/span/span/spanspan style="color: #000000;"supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"rd/span/span/span/sup/spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US" person (General)/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Come on, guys! Let's take it down!" Bereit shouted to everyone. Bereit brought his hand to his blade, sliding his palm along the side of the sword, coating his serrated sword in /br /Fallen had her ice glaive in her hand./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Tier summoned two full packs of wolves by her side./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Imbir loaded his gun, while having extra bullets in his free hand./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Vanessa had her revolver fully loaded./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Scharf had his sniper rifle with a fresh full magazine./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Zelkova was keeping his distance, but was ready if there was any medical attention needed./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"And Kurve had more spells, ready to be used./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"And the entire party brought an onslaught of damage. Imbir fired many armour piercing shots, really causing some damage on it's flesh./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Vanessa fanned the hammer on her revolver, mainly hitting it around the head. And quick reloads came after./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Kurve threw continuous spells at Titan with a mixed variety of elements./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Scharf kept his shots occasional, to not hit any of his companions./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Tier had her wolves jump, bite, tear and shred skin off Titan./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Fallen slashed at Titan all around the back, slowly freezing it more and more, just further immobilizing it./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"And Bereit jumped high in the air, with his blade emitting bright and loud cracking lightning. Falling from his height, he came down onto the Erpel and dug his blade right into it's neck, twisting and pushing the blade deeper with the sound of tearing flesh. He pulled it out one last time, as his blade pushed through it's neck, silencing the harrowing cries of the Erpel./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Titan, an Ancient Erpel, the second among the five they must hunt, has been slain. Everyone was silent, waiting for something to go wrong… but nothing happened. They truly slew the ancient Divine./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"That… wow." Tier spoke up, catching her breath. "I honestly was expecting a bit more from it. Especially after what Ifrit did to Reichtum."/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Bereit was silent for a few seconds, being reminded of how tough that battle was. "Guess this one just didn't have as much power as Ifrit..." Bereit suggested, as he then got off the Erpel, falling right on his butt as he hit the ground. "Holy crap… we actually did it." He said in his tired tone of voice. He then looked back at Tier, and the other soldiers, or what was left. "Thanks for the assistance…"/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Well, Mother… wait, where's mother?" Tier asked, as she looked around./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"I am fine, Tier." Fallen's mother spoke up, as she stepped out of one of the airships that were just about destroyed from the fight. Her hair was a complete mess, and she had a few scratches across her face and body. Despite the risk, she stayed to witness the fight, as she had wanted./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Oh. Thank goodness." Tier said, sounding relieved. She then turned to Fallen. Despite her seeming okay, Tier could tell Fallen was tired, with the slight curve to her legs. She approached her sister. "Sis." She spoke up./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Fallen looked at Tier. "Yes?"/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Tier stood next to her sister, gently patting her back. "You did good. I'm honestly impressed how you handled yourself out there." Tier complimented her. "Maybe it was for the best that you found these people after all."/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"They are more than just Guardians." Fallen commented, having a smile on her face./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"You know…" Tier smirked a bit. "You guys got room for one more?"/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Fallen had a surprised look on her face, hearing what she had just said. But she knew what was about to come. Her eyes went to her mother immediately, seeing an angered look./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Tier! What are you going on about!? You don't plan on abandoning me, are you!?" Her mother hissed./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Tier shrugged, with a smug grin. "Honestly mom… I'm sick of your bitchy and demanding attitude. I'm my own woman." She told her mother. "And I say… these guys are /span/span/span/spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"emmy /em/span/span/span/spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"family now. That includes Rein and Folgen."/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"How dare-" Fallen's mother was soon hit with a summoned boar ramming against her belly, knocking her right on the ground./span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"Tier laughed a bit, making the boar disappear. "Your little game is over, mother. I'm leaving with Rein, and that's that." Tier looked at her sister, and motioned her head. "Come on, we've got a world to save."/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"Fallen was nearly ready to cry. To see someone in her family finally take her side. Making amends. She soon tiredly walked with her sister, as Bereit, Zelkova, Kurve, Imbir and Vanessa joined together, Scharf soon joining as well./span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"You will regret this, child." Fallen's mother spoke, as she held her stomach, winded heavily, a few soldiers coming in to assist her./span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"So, you're with us now, huh?" Scharf spoke up. "Another villain turned hero."/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"Tier shrugged. "But better looking." She remarked./span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"Look, Bereit's smart mouth is already enough. We don't need another." Scharf told her, with a slight chuckle and head shake afterwards./span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"Well, you're just gonna have to live with it." Tier told him, laughing as well./span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-size: large;"_/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-size: large;"| |/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"| /span/span/span/span/spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"strongTier, the Beastmaster has joined your party! /strong/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;" |/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"| |/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"| |/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"|_|/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"Save your game up to this point?/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"Yes/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"No/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (General)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The party had taken flight in their airship, heading right for Wuste, as instructed by Fallen's mother./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"While everyone was getting prepared for the upcoming battle, Fallen was keeping an eye on Folgen, seeing she was slowly beginning to melt off of the ice she was encased in. Even if it was to defend herself, Fallen still felt shame for doing this to her dear sister. "Sorry, Folgen. Even if you can't hear me right now… just know I am sorry for what I did."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"She simply lives with the consequence of her actions." Imbir spoke up, being nearby. "It's pretty harsh, but she should have known what would happen."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"What she expected was to win. Not be beaten." Fallen pointed out. "I guess she didn't expect me to truly fight back when she tried to kill me."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Imbir looked at Folgen's near frozen state, as he approached her and Fallen. "Could you move aside for a moment?" Imbir asked of /br /Fallen raised her eyebrow for a moment, as she soon scooted to the side./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Imbir soon brought his hand to her thighs, patting them for a moment, one of the melting parts of her body. His right hand stopped right around her knees, as he then lifted her dress up./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"But what Fallen was shocked by was not what Imbir was doing, but what she saw. Bruises and cuts all over Folgen's leg. And a knife that was concealed underneath./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Just as I thought." Imbir said, as he then took the knife out of it's sheath. "A backup plan."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen was silent, her eyes still on the details of her sister's legs. "What the hell happened?" She whispered to herself, wondering what she had endured. Or what caused all of this./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Perhaps we can ask her when we defeat the Erpel. If she's conscious by then." Imbir suggested. "We can always have Kurve watch over her."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Maybe." Fallen said. She gave her sister's leg one last good look, having left a lot to wonder on what had happened. "I'm just worried what will happen to Kurve if she wakes up. If Folgen will try to attack her."br /br /Imbir was silent for a few seconds. "Him."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"What?" Fallen asked./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Kurve's a boy." Imbir /br /"Oh…" Fallen said, sounding surprised./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Though, I understand what you worry about." Imbir said, going back to the subject. "But Kurve's a black mage, from what I see. He can defend himself."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"I suppose. But he's only a kid. That's what really worries me." Fallen admitted. "But if I worry too much it'll probably make me lose focus on the Erpel." She looked down at her hands, falling silent./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"He'll be okay." Imbir assured. "Sure, I don't really know the kid. But something tells me he's tougher than he looks."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Yeah. I guess you're right." Fallen said, falling silence once more./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Throughout the ride, the party, excluding Fallen and Imbir, spoke about what was to come. And about the party's skepticism about the Ehre family's involvement. While they weren't complaining, there was something most of them agreed on: it was too good to be true. To have help as big as this./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Bereit mentioned that there was no way they were gonna have help like this for long. Something bad was gonna happen. And they'd be alone again on this adventure./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"But Bereit knew full well not to jinx it, after having being warned by Vanessa about it./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Soon, everyone made it to Wuste, landing right nearby the fortress of stone, Cid making sure not to land anywhere that could be carpet bombing territory./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"3/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"rd/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;" person (Bereit)/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The party stepped right out of the airship. Though, Bereit looked back to see Kurve was joining them. He turned back to look at him. "Kurve, we're about to fight an Erpel. You sure you want to come along?"/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Kurve nodded. "You helped me find a home. So I wanna help."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"I get that but… this is a life or death situation. And you're so young. Do you really want to risk your life so head on?" Bereit asked, wanting to make sure his decision was final. He didn't want to cause the death of a child. Though, Kurve's age was a mystery to him. For all he knew his kind was years older than humans./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"I'll just keep my distance." Kurve promised. "I won't get in the way."/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"He took a deep breath in thought, thinking that is was a bad idea. But… maybe he really was going to be okay. He made it this far on his own. At least until they found him. "Alright. Just be really, really careful, okay?" Bereit asked of him./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Kurve nodded, his big hat waving with the hair-like tendrils on his head./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Good." Bereit then looked at everybody. "Alright… so this our second Erpel. We got the Ifrit Erpel. Now, we're gonna get Titan Erpel. And after that… we've got Shiva, Ramuh, then Alexander."br /br /"And that sixth Erpel symbol… who knows what that one is…" Fallen commented./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Right." Bereit nodded, feeling uneasy about that. If the Erpel they killed was as hard as it was, he could only imagine what the last one is like. It was scary to think about./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Hey… you guys hear that?" Vanessa spoke up, as there was a faint noise coming from the sky. Everyone looked around in the air, Scharf standing right where he was, and looked towards the ocean. Or at least where it was closest./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Right over there." Scharf told the party, pointing right to the ocean that was distant. "The Valkyrie's here."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The whole party looked over to the ocean where Scharf pointed to. And they would see several airships coming their way. There was tension among everyone, knowing what was to come./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Though, Kurve and Zelkova weren't so sure on what they were about to witness./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Two airships stopped right next to where the party was, while four others would fly right over the fortress of stone. They would watch as bombs were dropped right from the airship. Lines upon lines of fiery explosions laid waste to the fortress of stone./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Scharf couldn't help but laugh at the sight, clapping sarcastically as if it was just a firework show./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Though, Zelkova and Kurve watched the horror of what the Ehre family was capable. The entire fortress, up in smoke, and completely obliterated in seconds. This kind of destructive power was scary and alien to them. It left them both wondering what else they were capable. And what they could possibly want gone, in seconds./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The two airships soon landed, as soldiers with rifles and armour came out of them in groups./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"And behind them all, Tier walked right out. It was an odd sight, seeing all those armoured soldiers come out in groups and with matching rifles. And then came Tier, with her beast-ish appearance, which really showed what kind of person she was. Or perhaps her profession./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Tier clapped her hands together and rubbed them. "Alright, ladies!" She said, seeming somehow calm about what was happening. "Let's slay us an Erpel, eh?"/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"You're pretty cocky for someone who's never faced one yet." Imbir commented./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"I have you guys by my side. I'd say the odds are stacked in my… or, our favour." Tier explained to Imbir. The party was silent from her comment, Tier soon laughed. "Ah, come on, let loose you guys. We got this."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"And right when she said that, there was a rumble coming from the Fortress of Stone. She pursed her lips a bit. "Spoke too soon?" She said sheepishly. The Titan Erpel came right out of the broken fortress. The Erpel had scales coated in stone, solidified earth and sand. Titan was the bigger among the Erpels. It came running for the party, as it swung it's wings at them, launching razor sharp rocks at them./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Hit the deck!" Imbir warned everyone./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen stood forward as she threw her staff up. "Shiva! Give us an ice wall!" She asked of her, as then a thick wall of ice came to appear in front of them, blocking off the stones that came their way./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Alright! Let's do this!" Tier said, as she then raised her arms up, forming her hands as if they were claws. "Wolves! Go!" She shouted, as shadowy wolves came from the grounds and charged at Titan./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen brought the ice wall down, the stones falling to the sand. The soldiers all brought their guns up, aiming at Titan. "Open fire!" The forward most soldier called out. Soon, a storm of bullets stormed the Titan, as scratches and holes were left all over Titan. But that sure as hell wasn't to bring it down./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Titan came running at the entire group, it's body hardening with the stones coming together. Everybody scattered as it came to them, Titan sending the landed airships flying with a body check./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The entire party was scattered, being in either groups of two or three./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"That armour is tough." Tier announced. "Got any ideas to punch through?" She asked Bereit who was right next to him./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"br /Bereit eyed Imbir and Scharf, knowing they both had a few means. "I have an idea." Bereit told her, as he then stood up. "Scharf!" He called out to him. "Get far away and get your gun ready! We need to punch through it's armour!"br /br /"You got it, kid!" Scharf said, as he retreated to the higher points of the sand filled hills./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Imbir, you've got anything that can punch through it's skin?!" Bereit called out to him./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Watch out!" Tier warned, as she jumped away./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Bereit saw the Titan threw sharp shards of stone at him, jumping away from it./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Yeah, but getting an explosive bullet underneath it's armour would really do some damage!" Imbir informed him, as he took his gun out of it's holster. "Wanna give me a hand?!"/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Leave that to me!" Tier offered. "I'll have my pets tear an opening with no issue!" She then brought her arms up again, as then a shadowy bull came to be, having horns especially large and sharp. She brought her arm forward, the bull scraping it's hoof on the ground. It then charged forward and rammed right into the side of the Erpel, breaking into it's armour. The bull disappeared, leaving the punctures open./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"They were big enough, but getting a shot in was gonna be tough. But Imbir had a plan. He looked over to Tier. "Tier, think one of your animals could throw it in?" He asked her. It seemed the entire party was acknowledging Tier's helpfulness./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Not a problem. Just need a bit of a distraction." Tier informed them./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Say no more." Bereit said, as he then made lightning emit from his hand. Though, he noticed that Titan was swarming the other party members./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Kurve was kept a fair distance thanks to Zelkova, as he was healing some of the wounded soldiers./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"As for Fallen, she was avoiding the Erpel as much as she could, while she had Shiva keep her attention from her onslaught of bone chilling attacks./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Looks like your sister is doing all the distracting you need." Bereit told Tier./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Well, she always caught the eyes of many." Tier said, winking to Bereit in a playful. "Imbir, throw it to me!"/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Imbir nodded, soon twisting the bullet and then threw it towards Tier. She then made a shadowy snake come from the ground and swallow the grenade whole, leaving it with a big bump in it's belly./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Titan kept attacking Shiva, their attacks of elemental shards shattering and colliding constantly./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Tier's shadow snake soon dug right into the opening of Titan's skin. It took a few seconds before the explosion went off, breaking a big part of Titan's armour, leaving exposed flesh. A point of vulnerability./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"That's one spot! But we could lose some more of that armour!" Imbir said, as he then loaded another explosive shot, thinking he could simply aim for this one./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Scharf's got your back on that one, Imbir! I'll come in and provide distractions!" Bereit said, as he ran for Titan, Tier doing the same./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"3/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"rd/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;" person (Scharf)/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Scharf had readied himself way up on the sandy hill, his eye resting just behind the scope, his sight aimed right for Titan. /spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"He turned the small dial at the top of the scope to zoom in, slowly getting a clearer view of the chaos happening around the Erpel. However, from the corner of the scope, he saw Kurve waving his big sleeves, right at his direction./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"What is that kid up to?" He whispered, seeing Kurve was showing a stone in his hand, and pointing to it. He then made a motion of it crashing down, as if… it was crashing down on something? "Wait, he's a black mage… I get it." He then showed a wave of his hand, as if to signal he understood./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"He brought his sight back to Titan, taking a deep breath./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"3/span/span/span/spanspan style="color: #000000;"supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"rd/span/span/span/sup/spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US" person (Kurve)/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Kurve stood right up, as he ran towards Titan./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Kurve, where are you going?" Zelkova asked worriedly./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"I'm gonna help everybody break through the armour of the Erp… thing." Kurve answered him./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"But-"/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Trust me!" Kurve told him. "I can help. I'm not just some kid."/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Zelkova sighed. "Fine… but be careful, okay? I don't want to see you hurt."/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Kurve shook his head, his hair-like tendrils shaking with his head. "I'll be okay. I promise." He then ran for Titan, before he came to a halt a few meters away from it. He knelt down and put his hands to the warm sands. The ground shook around him, the sands moving as well./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Fallen saw Kurve from the corner of her eye, seeing what he was trying to do. She was about to say something about what he was attempting to do, but she was immediately met with a strong whip of Titan's tail, sending her flying and tumbling back. She was left winded, holding her upper-torso, gasping for air./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Witnessing that, it drove Kurve to put more power into this spell. To save his friends. Soon, gigantic stones came from below, resembling some kind of ruins. He made them rise high up in the air, his hands going as high as his hands could be./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"3/span/span/span/spanspan style="color: #000000;"supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"rd/span/span/span/sup/spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US" person (Scharf)/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Whoa… not bad, kid." Scharf said, smiling a bit./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"3/span/span/span/spanspan style="color: #000000;"supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"rd/span/span/span/sup/spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US" person (Kurve)/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Mr. Bereit!" Kurve called out. "Can you and the others keep it still!?" Kurve asked./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Leave it to us!" Bereit assured with a small salute to Kurve./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Kurve watched as there was continuous bullets flying about, occasionally coming to a halt to avoid shooting any of his companions. He then witnessed the power of Bereit. He saw him jump right into the back of the Erpel, and conjure a spear of lightning in his hand. He soon leaped to the wing and brought it down on the webbing of it's wing, stopping it right in it's tracks./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Tier did her part, if not in an odd way, but summoning a shadowy elephant right on top of it, pinning it to the ground./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Fallen chipped in and had Shiva freeze it's other wing to keep Titan from moving./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Earthaga!" With that, Kurve swung his arms down, the ruins that came down with them. Tier's beast disappeared, so the group would witness the destruction Kurve's magic would cause. Any stone armour Titan had was shattered, or left in shambles, and scattered about the battlefield. "I got it! I got it!" Kurve said happily./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"And soon, the distant shots of Scharf's sniper was heard. Every shot that hit would make Titan recoil back as they punctured the skin./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"3/span/span/span/spanspan style="color: #000000;"supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"rd/span/span/span/sup/spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US" person (General)/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Come on, guys! Let's take it down!" Bereit shouted to everyone. Bereit brought his hand to his blade, sliding his palm along the side of the sword, coating his serrated sword in /br /Fallen had her ice glaive in her hand./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Tier summoned two full packs of wolves by her side./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Imbir loaded his gun, while having extra bullets in his free hand./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Vanessa had her revolver fully loaded./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Scharf had his sniper rifle with a fresh full magazine./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Zelkova was keeping his distance, but was ready if there was any medical attention needed./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"And Kurve had more spells, ready to be used./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"And the entire party brought an onslaught of damage. Imbir fired many armour piercing shots, really causing some damage on it's flesh./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Vanessa fanned the hammer on her revolver, mainly hitting it around the head. And quick reloads came after./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Kurve threw continuous spells at Titan with a mixed variety of elements./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Scharf kept his shots occasional, to not hit any of his companions./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Tier had her wolves jump, bite, tear and shred skin off Titan./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Fallen slashed at Titan all around the back, slowly freezing it more and more, just further immobilizing it./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"And Bereit jumped high in the air, with his blade emitting bright and loud cracking lightning. Falling from his height, he came down onto the Erpel and dug his blade right into it's neck, twisting and pushing the blade deeper with the sound of tearing flesh. He pulled it out one last time, as his blade pushed through it's neck, silencing the harrowing cries of the Erpel./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Titan, an Ancient Erpel, the second among the five they must hunt, has been slain. Everyone was silent, waiting for something to go wrong… but nothing happened. They truly slew the ancient Divine./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"That… wow." Tier spoke up, catching her breath. "I honestly was expecting a bit more from it. Especially after what Ifrit did to Reichtum."/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Bereit was silent for a few seconds, being reminded of how tough that battle was. "Guess this one just didn't have as much power as Ifrit..." Bereit suggested, as he then got off the Erpel, falling right on his butt as he hit the ground. "Holy crap… we actually did it." He said in his tired tone of voice. He then looked back at Tier, and the other soldiers, or what was left. "Thanks for the assistance…"/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Well, Mother… wait, where's mother?" Tier asked, as she looked around./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"I am fine, Tier." Fallen's mother spoke up, as she stepped out of one of the airships that were just about destroyed from the fight. Her hair was a complete mess, and she had a few scratches across her face and body. Despite the risk, she stayed to witness the fight, as she had wanted./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Oh. Thank goodness." Tier said, sounding relieved. She then turned to Fallen. Despite her seeming okay, Tier could tell Fallen was tired, with the slight curve to her legs. She approached her sister. "Sis." She spoke up./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Fallen looked at Tier. "Yes?"/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Tier stood next to her sister, gently patting her back. "You did good. I'm honestly impressed how you handled yourself out there." Tier complimented her. "Maybe it was for the best that you found these people after all."/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"They are more than just Guardians." Fallen commented, having a smile on her face./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"You know…" Tier smirked a bit. "You guys got room for one more?"/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Fallen had a surprised look on her face, hearing what she had just said. But she knew what was about to come. Her eyes went to her mother immediately, seeing an angered look./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Tier! What are you going on about!? You don't plan on abandoning me, are you!?" Her mother hissed./span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"Tier shrugged, with a smug grin. "Honestly mom… I'm sick of your bitchy and demanding attitude. I'm my own woman." She told her mother. "And I say… these guys are /span/span/span/spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"emmy /em/span/span/span/spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"family now. That includes Rein and Folgen."/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"How dare-" Fallen's mother was soon hit with a summoned boar ramming against her belly, knocking her right on the ground./span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"Tier laughed a bit, making the boar disappear. "Your little game is over, mother. I'm leaving with Rein, and that's that." Tier looked at her sister, and motioned her head. "Come on, we've got a world to save."/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"Fallen was nearly ready to cry. To see someone in her family finally take her side. Making amends. She soon tiredly walked with her sister, as Bereit, Zelkova, Kurve, Imbir and Vanessa joined together, Scharf soon joining as well./span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"You will regret this, child." Fallen's mother spoke, as she held her stomach, winded heavily, a few soldiers coming in to assist her./span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"So, you're with us now, huh?" Scharf spoke up. "Another villain turned hero."/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"Tier shrugged. "But better looking." She remarked./span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"Look, Bereit's smart mouth is already enough. We don't need another." Scharf told her, with a slight chuckle and head shake afterwards./span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"Well, you're just gonna have to live with it." Tier told him, laughing as well./span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-size: large;"_/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-size: large;"| |/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"| /span/span/span/span/spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"strongTier, the Beastmaster has joined your party! /strong/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;" |/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"| |/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"| |/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"|_|/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"Save your game up to this point?/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"Yes/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="color: #000000;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span lang="en-US"span style="font-style: normal;"No/span/span/span/span/span/p