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First Day
Fenris stepped off the ship and smiled, taking in the beautiful scenery. A lush forest, white sandy beaches, beautiful women in bikinis practically everywhere, the Three Cardinal Stooges and Whore all being carried away from the ship on stretchers because they were too sea sick to walk. Fenris grinned at the last one. It made his life just a little better to see the pure misery on Whore's face, and the vomit covering her.
Within a couple of minutes, the mayor of the island greeted them and led them to an inn before giving thrm some basic ground rules. No stealing kills from other adventurers, only travel between islanda by boat, and don't steal. They began to explore town a bit before heading out to grind for levels, and when they found a swimsuit shol, Fenris caught Naofumi trying not to stare at Raphtalia as she was holding bikini tops up to her chest. Fenris's girls all got themselves bikinis as well, including Hana, since she'd be fully grown in about a day or two, and they continued. They found a totem pole and an inscriotion that gave an energy boost tow whoever the weilder wanted, Naofumi choosing Filo, and L'Arc and Therese found them. Naofumi agreed to work together starting in the morning, since it was already mid afternoon, and then Naofumi and Fenris left to start levelling up. And it was faster than Fenris had hoped. Even one-shot monsters, in this case balls of purple slime, gave a hundred ninety experience each. And there was an endless supply of them. Fenris grinned and he and the others all went to town. However, after a few hours, the experience points stopped.
"We stopped gaining experience," Naofumi noticed.
"So you're responsible," Itsuki's voice called out from the top of a hill, Itsuki walking down toward them.
"What happened to my EXP?" Ren asked, walking around a separate hill and spottspotting them all, sighing.
"Oh, that explains it," Motoyasu said, also arriving.
The three stooges begsn to bicker about who had gotten there first.
"Well this is a waste of time," Naofumi said. "We're out of here."
"Yup," Fenris said, turning and following Naofumi but grinning back at Whore as he did.
"Don't you dare!" Whore snapped.
"Nightfall," Fenris said, tsking her sight again.
"You bastard!" Whore shouted.
Fenris laughed and followed Naofumi through the trees to the coast, their groups taking a pair of boats across the water to a new island. This one had much stronger monsters. Horned, black, wolf-like monster bosses with black feathered wings and morning star tails, which Shadow finished off for the form, as well as hellhounds, surprisingly.
"Man, I love this island," Fenris said, tossing a Hellhound Heart into the air and catching it as he walked over to the massive winged dog they had killed.
"Master Naofumi, I don't know how much longer this sword will last," Raphtalia said.
She was right. Her sword and Filo's metal claws were both beaten all to hell.
"When did that happen?" Naofumi asked.
"Maybe our power levels have finally outgrown our weapons' durability," Raphtalia said.
"We'll just have to make sure to find you two some new weapons before the next Wave," Naofumi said.
Fenris handed him a chunk of the dog's flesh, also feeding some to his own sword. Neither of them unlocked anything new, but Fenris got another boost to Familiar Magic, though smaller than the Hellhound Sword had given, and Naofumi got a pair of weapon drops for Filo and Raphtalia. Filo got a black dog-shaped glove with a bar handle through the mouth and three long double-edged claw blades extending from the bar, and Raphtalia got a long black sword with a wing-themed guard.
"Perfect timing," Fenris said. "Naofumi, me and the girls are going to branch off and see if we can get Hana leveled up. Here." He tossed the Hellhound Heart to Naofumi. "We'll catch up with you at the inn. I'll be sure to bring monster drops."
Naofumi nodded. "Alright. I should still be able to collect experience from anything you kill so feel free to do what you want. Just be careful. The monsters are probably stronger too."
"Don't worry," Fenris said. "I'm not losing anyone."
Naofumi nodded and Fenris and the others left, heading deeper into the woods. Their progress had been going well. Hana already looked a couple years older than earlier that day, but he could tell how impatient she was getting, so he was going to try and held her improve faster.
"Hey Boss, I think there's something up ahead," Shadow said. "I can sense something."
Fenris nodded and continued onward, only to stop as they reached a sort of temple. It looked ancient, but the door was sealed by a glowing magical barrier. They walked over to it and words appeared on the barrier.
"I shall only open for those who command my magic?" Fenris asked. "What is this?" He stsred up at the gigantic wolf face carved above the door. "Shadow, you don't think this is a temple to Fenrir, do you?"
"I think you're right, Boss," Shadow said.
Fenris reached out, placing his hand against the barrier, and the barrier shone and faded. The doors groaned as they swung open and a deafening roar echoed from somewhere deep inside.
"Not the best idea," Fenris said. "Hana, stay at the back. Sofia, you too."
"We will," Sofia nodded.
They all started into the temple and the door groaned as it closed behind them, leaving them in pitch black darkness. Fenris scanned through his weapon forms before sighing. Nothing useful. Just then, Sofia raised her hands, a ring of fireballs spreading from her palms and illuminating the area around them.
"Nice," Fenris smiled.
"Thank you," Sofia smiled. "Now, where were we?"
Fenris nodded, starting forward, the rest of them following, including the fireballs. The room they were in was massive, with enormous columns reaching up to the ceiling and a minimum of four rows of them. Fenris felt like the already gigantic temple was actually bigger on the inside. Their footsteps echoed loudly on the stone floor and Fenris felt himself tensing, Shadow doing the same. Shadow dropped silently to the floor, shifting into a hellhound, and sniffed around.
"Something's in here, Boss," Shadow warned. "Lots of somethings."
Fenris nodded, eyes sweeping the darkness outside the ring of fireballs. Suddenly, something heavy and solid, though not metal, scraped against the ground and they all stopped. Fenris's eyes scanned the darkness, but he couldn't see. That was about the only darkness ability he wanted, but he had yet to find it.
"It's coming," Shadow warned, his shadow body beginning to shift more constsntly as he became agitated.
Suddenly, a massive snake as big around as the Tyrant dragon's head shot out of the darkness at them, the girls all scattering and Shadow shifting into a bird and yanking Fenris up out of the way before dropping him on the s ake's back. He switched on his sword's health absorption as he stabbed it in the back, except, nothing happendd. He swore, switching it back off.
"It's a Familiar!" Fenris shouted, wrenching the sword out and driving it back in again and again. Finally, the snake bucked, hurling him off of itself and he flipped, landing on his feet as Shado's Nue form landed on the snake's back, tearing at it. It shrieked and thrashed, hurling him off just as Sofia sent a massive wave of flame over its body. It shrieked and screamed, thrashing about wildly as Fenris shifted his weapons, selecting the Nue Blade. On his right arm, he suddenly held a massive half-leaf cleaver blade attached to the armor on his right arm behind his hand. The armor was tiger patterned and covered his arms and shoulders with a thick white main on both forearms, the left hand having a massive axe blade on the back of its wrist.
"Alright," Fenris said. "Let's see what this can do."
The snake shot toward him, fires still dotting its body here and there, and Fenris jumped, spinning and tearing into its snout and head with his blades before planting the axe in its back and landing on it. He drove his cleaver into its back and leapt backward, splitting it open in a trail. However, as he landed on the ground, the snake shifted, becoming a gorilla twice his height and batting him aside.
He crashed down hard and the wind was knocked out of him. The gorilla begsn to shriek, beating its chest just before Shadow formed into a hellhound, his head and neck becoming a spike and driving themselves through the gorilla's chest. It shrieked in pain, grabbing the spike but Shadow flattened it into a blade and withdrew it, slicing off the gorilla's fingers as he did. It roared, turning toward him just Riley and Naomi leapt past its face, Riley passing above Naomi as their blades tore through its face. It roared in agony, staggering backward and Hana darted forward from behind, slipping between its legs and slashing the backs of its knees then up through its inner thighs, escaping just as it collapsed behind her. It reached out for her, but Eileen planted a half-dozen arrows, which Sofia lit on fire for her, in its face and it roared in pain. Then, Shadow stsbbed it through the throat and Fenris sprinted up the spike, sword shiting into its Hellhound Sword form. Then, he leapt over the gorilla, splitting its head in half vertically before flipping as Shadow retracted his spike. Then, Fenris slashed on his way downward, splitting the gorilla in half vertically and landed on his feet as the gorilla melted into shadow and faded.
"How long until it recovers?" Fenris asked.
"Depends on the Familar Magic user's level," Shadow said. "Probably not long."
Fenris nodded and turned, all of them quickly making their way through the rolm again, the ring of fireballs again following. After a bit, they found a staircase heading down and they hurried down it. At the bottom, they found themselves in yet another massive chamber. This time, however, the chamber was lit by hundreds of floating fireballs, and in the center stood gigantic spider with a scorpion tail formed from the top of its abdomen. The spider itself was formed out of stone and lava.
"Great," Fenris grumbled. "Everyone be careful. I'll draw it's attention. Shadow, you're finnishing it."
Shadow nodded in agreement and Fenris charged. The spider turned toward him just as a massive bolt of black lightning flashed past him, blasting the spider in the face. The spider's tail struck out at Fenris blindly, missing by a foot, and Fenris darted to the side, his Hellhound Sword's blade forming into an axe and removing the tail. The spider roared, leaping off of the ground and onto the side of a pillar before roaring again.
Fireballs began to fall toward them, but Fenris, Sofia, and Eileen blocked them with a combination of lightning, arrows, and wind spells from Sofia. She didn't use them often because they were weaker, but her fire spells were clearly useless here.
Fenris held his sword's hilt in front of his chest as he turnsd profile to the spider, its blade aimed at him before it transformed into a spike, like Shadow could form, and shot outward, imapling the spider. It shrieked and he retracted the spike, allowing the spider to fall to the ground before Fenris charged, splitting its face one way, Naomi going the other, then Riley splitting it downward as Hana jumped, splitting it upward before Shadow caught her and flew her away as the spider flipped, roaring and leaping at them. A blast of wind hit it, throwing it backward before Fenris reached it and jumped, landing on its back and driving a gigantic shadow harpoon into its back, pinning it to the ground.
"Shadow!" Fenris shouted.
Shadow streaked downward in a blur, transforming into a spike of darkness and drilling himself into the spider's face before Fenris leapt off. A moment later, shadow spikes erupted all over the spider's body before retracting, Shadow growing from its shadow as a gigantic shadow spider wjth a scorpion tail. Fenris nodded approvingly and walked over to the spider's tail and absorbed it, unlocking a spear and something called Spider Arms. He switched to both. Tbe spear was a spear made entirely of lava with the tip shaped like a scorpion tail and a sword blade as the back third of it, for some reason, the onyx sphere at the base of the blade. The Spider Arms were a set of six, four foot, prehensile legs that were segmented and sharpened into blades on the inside and outside that grew from a sort of back armor along his sides, three per side, then a double-edged blade from the back of each wrist.
"Fancy," Fenris smirked. "I like it."
He switched back to his black sword as Shadow shifted back to his hellhound form.
"I still sense something inside, Boss," Shadow said. "There's something on the next floor."
Fenris nodded. "Let's check it out. Are you girls okay?"
"We're fine," Sofia nodded.
"Better than fine," Hana smiled, suddenly looking almost sixteen, her dress having grown proportionally. "I just jumped six levels from thst thing."
"A few more and you'll be ready to change," Fenris smiled. "I'm glad we came here while Cal Mira was active. This place is an experience gold mine now."
Hana nodded and they all walked to the stairs to the next level. There was light coming from belowb so they all readied themselves. However, as they stepped off of the stairs, they stopped. The room was huge, but different. It was lit as though by sunlight, and was a throne room. The throne was on the far end of the room, situated before a gigantic wolf statue, the wolf seeming to be snarling and wild. Seated in the throne was a man with a suit of black wolf-themed armor, long grey hair, a long grey beared, a massive black greatsword with a wolf's jaws holding the blade to the hilt, similar to the hilt of Fenris's Hellhound Sword's hilt. Beside the man was the same giant snake Familiar they had just killed two floors again.
"Jesus, that thing regenerates fast," Fenris said, glancing at his sword. "So, you're the guy who lives in this temple?"
The man's head rose, a pair of glowing red eyes like Fenris's own studying him. "I am Lord Fenrir's High Priest."
"It's Fenrir's cult, Boss," Shadow said. "These creeps worship Fenrir for being a destructive, unstopable monster."
Fenris nodded. "I have to quarrel with you, High Priest. We'll leave you in peace."
"This was not a chance meeting," the High Priest said. "I drew you here through your Familiar, in order to test you."
"I don't want to fight you," Fenris said.
"You don't need to," the High Priest said. "You successfully defeated both of my Familiars."
"Excuse me?" Fenris asked. "The spider was a Familiar too?"
"That's right," the High Priest nodded. "Currently, you possess a Darkness-type Familiar, because that is your magical affinity. But as your Familiar becomes stronger, you'll gain the ability to use other types of Familiars."
"Awesome," Fenris said. "How do I do that?"
"You must gain more forms," the High Priest said. "For each form you gain, your familiar becomes stronger."
"Good to know," Fenris nodded. "If that's all-"
"It's not," the High Priest said. "This world will be threatened by worse than the Waves of Calamity. In order to aid you in fighting against it, you must become strong. I will grant you the ability to use another Familiar. It is a Fire-Type familiar."
"Awesome," Fenris said. "Ready whenever you are."
The High Priest grunted and held out his hand, his own darkness-type Familiardeconstructing into shadow and surging forward, enveloping Shadow for several seconds before sinking into him. A moment later, a fireball erupted into existance beside Fenris before transforming into a bird made of flames, roughly the same size as Shadow.
"Hello Master," the Familiar greeted Fenris.
"Don't call me that," Fenris said.
"You are my Master and I will call you Master," the firebird said.
"Whatever," Fenris sighed. "Your name's going to be Phoenix, for lack of a better idea."
"As you wish, Master," Phoenix bowed its head.
"There is...another thing...I must...tell you," The High Priest said, breath wheezing out of his mouth as he began to age rapidly. "Your...companion...has...Tamer Magic." He pointed at Hana.
"Tamer Magic?" Fenris asked.
"Similar...to...Familiar," the High Priest said. "She can...tame...monsters...Keep them...as...pets."
"Cool," Fenris smiled.
"And...she," he pointed at Sofia. "Has...Familiar Magic...through...your child. She has...Ice...type...Fam..."
His body turned to ash, his armor clattering to the ground and a ring rolling to Fenris. He picked it up and an alert told him it would boost the wearer's mana and Fsmiliar Magic, if they had it. He passed it to Sofia and walked over to the High Priest's sword, copying it before they all left the temple. As they stepped outside, several hellhounds stepped out of the shadows od the trees, snarling.
"They're all fireproof, Master," Phoenix warned.
"I know," Fenris said. "Relax. We'll deal with them."
Just then, the air began to grow col rapidly and the hellhounds all yelped and fled.
"Shit! I'm out!" Phoenix said, going out like a candle in the wind.
Snow and bits of ice began to blow out of the trees on one side, frost forming on the ground around them. Fenris switched to his lava spear as the others around them prepared themselves. Then, a woman walked out of the trees. She was almost half a person tsller than Fenris and had snow white skin, long, ice blue hair newrly reaching the ground, glowing blue eyes, and frost covering her breasts and nethers. Fenris stared. It was a Shiva. An Ice Elemental spirit that was so rare it was rumored to be a myth. It was also rumored to be powerful enough to kill two Cardinal Heroes at the same time.
"What should we do?" Sofia asked.
"We should run," Fenris said as ice began to form in the Shiva's hand, forming into a sword. "Fast."
Before anyone could think to flee, the Shiva shot forward, slashing at Fenris. His spear managed to block the strike, but his health dropped sharply and he shot backward into a tree. He shouted in pain, struggling to stand as Eileen healed him quickly. Sofia formed a massive flaming seal in the air, the seal spewing a cloud of fireballs at the Shiva, only for her to blow a cloud of frost and ice particles, the frozen air putting the fireballs out instsntly. Shadow stabbed at her, but she held out a hand and he was suddenly frozen solid. Fenris swore. This was bad.
He spun his spear, forming a blue circle, then hurled his spear through it. "Meteor Thrust!"
The Shiva slashed her sword through it and the attack dispersed, the spear reappearing in Fenris's hand in a flash of light. He switched to his Spider Arms and all eight blades lit on fire as he charged. He began to flip and slash, striking at her as quickly as he could, but the Shiva fended him off easily. Suddenly, Naomi flipped over Fenris, slashing at her as she was blo king his blades, and she was forced to retreat. Then, the ground below her exploded into a pillar of flame, only for them to freeze a moment later. Fenris drove all eight blades into the ground just as the pillar of ice shattered.
"Red Planet!" he shouted.
Flames exploded out of the ground around her from eight points, surrounding her and forming a massive fireball. Then, as he ripped his blades out of the ground, the fireball exploded, leaving a floating sphere of ice behind. It shattered and the Shiva landed lightly, completely unharmed. Fenris switched to his Dragon Soul Sword and charged yet again, the Shiva yet again easily fending him off.
"How do we beat her?" Riley asked.
"We can't!" Fenris shouted.
Just then, the Shiva stepped around his blade and he swore as her fist exploded into his gut, shattering his armor's abdomen and launching him backward, blood flying from his mouth. She shot forward, sword pulled back, and Sofia stepped in between them, arms out to her sides.
"Stop!" Sofia shouted.
The Shiva stopped.
"How did you..." Eileen looked back and forth between the Shiva and Sofia.
"I command you to kneel!" Sofia ordered.
The Shive stood motionless for a moment before lowering her sword and kneeling. Fenris pushed himself up and sighed, resting his blade against Shadow for a few moments, thawing part of him. As he pulled the blade away, Shadow pulled out of the ice, reforming as a bird.
"You have to kill her to get her as a Familiar," Shadow said, Fenris passing the message along. "Good job getting her to listen, though."
Sofia drew her knife, and suddenly the Shiva was moving again. Her sword flashed out toward Sofia, but Fenris's blocked it, Fenris snarling in rage.
"Not a fucking chance!" Fenris spat. "Nightfall!"
As soon as the wave of darkness shot out of his sword, he grabbed Sofia and dropped, the Shiva's blade flashing over them. The Shiva turned toward Fenris instantly as Fenris pulled her attention away from Sofia by moving around her. She slashed rapidly and Fenris fended her off. She wasn't as precise or fast now, but she was still terrifyingly strong. Fenris spun around her sword and slashed at her and she leapt aside, out of the way of it. Then, as she landed, Sofia drove her knife into the back of her ribcage, into her hesrt, the ripped it out and spun away, barely avoiding her blade.
"Zweit Fire Storm," Sofia said, holding her hand up, fireballs appearing and launching themselves at the Shiva from all sides.
The Shiva couldn't see to extinguish them all, and as a result, chose instead to form a sphere of ice to protect herself. Except, she was too slow and the fireballs slipped through the gaps, obliterating the sphere from the inside out as well as rapidly blasting the Shiva. She screamed in pain, slashing a wide arc, hitting nothing, and Sofia sent fire exploding out of the ground from below again as well. Finally, the explosions ended and the Shiva fell to her knees, tears rolling down her cheeks as her body began to break apart.
"I'm sorry," Sofia said. "But I couldn't let you hurt him."
Then, the Shiva crumbled, her head being the only thing to not break apart. Then, ice began to form beside Sofia before growing, transforming into the Shiva again.
"You have beaten me," the Shiva said, everyone staring in surprise, as they could all hear her. "I will serve you. I am called Shiva."
"So, you're my Familiar?" Sofia asked, her eyes an icy blue shddenly.
"I am," Shiva nodded. "Vassel Hero, I apologize for my actions. I meant to test your strength in order to determine if you were worthy of my chosen Mistress."
"And?" Fenris asked, less surprised or confused than the others by her statement.
"You are," Shiva decided. "You fight well."
"Thank you," Fenris smiled. "Welcome to the team."
Shiva nodded just as Shadow flew up in front of her.
"Ask her how come she can talk to everyone but I can't, Boss," Shadow said.
"The reason for that, shade, is that my Mistress allows me to," Shiva said.
"Wait, I can just choose to have everyone hear him and they will?" Fenris asked.
"That's right," Shiva nodded, just as a display with Shadow's Familiar settings appeared in Fenris's vision.
"Fancy that," Fenris said, switching Shadow to be able to talk to everyone, then doing the same for Phoenix. "My Familiar doesn't know what he's talking about."
"Oh, Boss, that's hurtful!" Shadow complained, Sofia giggling.
"Anyway, more pressing matters to attend to," Fenris said. "We should get back to Naofumi."
The others agreed but Shiva caught Sofia's arm.
"Mistress, may I change my appearance?" Shiva asked. "I wish to travel with you, but fear I may stand out like this."
"You can do that?" Sofia asked, receiving a nod. "Then sure, go ahead."
Shiva nodded and began to shrink. Her hair shortened to reaching just above her shoulders in a messy, borderline spiky, style that reminded Fenris of icicles, the bangs sweeping to her left slightly. Her skin gained some color, remaining extremely pale, but not being the color of snow anymore. Next, the blue in her eyes retracted to just her irises, which still glowed slightly, and the frost covering her thawed, leaving her high B-cup breasts and her bald pussy completely uncovered. Fenris blinked slowly twice, staring at her with a mixture of thoughts running through his head ranging from, "Fuck she's hot," to "Why am I not surprised she's still naked?"
He sighed, pulling out some thread, metal, leather, and the Hellhound Heart he had gotten earlier, just for shits and giggles, and fed them all to his sword's gemstone. A moment later, a set of clothes grew back out of it. A white shirt eith long, light blue sleeves slightly darker than her hair, a pair of white panties, a short, light blue skirt, and a pair of brown, leather, knee-high hiking boots that somehow didn't look that bad with the outfit once she was wearing them. The next thing that came out of his sword was a white, metal circlet with the metal braided in the front, then fusing on the sides, and the Hellhound heart split into three spheres, one about the size of an eyeball and two as big around as an iris on either side of the first, decorating the front of it. She pulled it on, pulling her hair out ffrom under it so that her hair hid it from the sides and back, and her bangs fell over it in the front. Once it was on, she glowed for a moment before the light faded.
"Wow, she has all the same upgrades we got from the Hellhound Heart necklaces," Sofia gasped. "Does that mean she'd indistructable?"
"I doubt it," Fenris said. "Although, she is beligerently overpowered, so maybe."
Sofia smiled, nodding. "Okay, not let's head back to Naofumi."
Fenris nodded and picked up Shiva's frozen head, feeding it to his sword. He got a set of ice claws called Shiva's Talons in return, along with cross-weapon ice immunity and damage, though the immunity couldn't mix with other imunities, as usual, and gained a couple ice-type abilities when the claws were equipped. They all walked through the trees, arriving at a campsite where Naofumi and his party were talking with L'Arc and Therese.
"Oh hey, we were just about to come looking for you," Naofumi said. "You know, when you say you're going to try and level up fast, you don't mess around. How did you find three bosses, two of which netted you over five thousand experience, and one of which netted you almost ten thousand? Also, who's the new girl?"
"This is Shiva," Fenris introduced her, L'Arc and Therese both shouting in surprise and backing away, only for Shiva to bow. "She's the bigger experience source. And also Sofia's new Familiar."
"You've got Familiar magic too?" Naofumi asked.
"Thanks to our child," Sofia nodded, holding a hand to her abdomen. "I guess this is proof that our child really was saved."
"I guess so," Fenris smiled. "Anyway, we found a temple to an ancient monster king called Fenrir who's the source of all Familiar Magic, and fought two Familiars on the way in. Turns out, not only does Sofia also have Familiar Magic, but I now have a second Familiar, and Hana has Tamer Magic."
"Tamer magic?" Naofumi asked, looking to Hana, only for his jaw to drop. "Jesus, you really did grow up in one night."
Fenris blinked and turned to Hana, only to grin. He was right. And she had developed nicely. C-cup breasts almost as firm and perky as Sofia's, a firm, round ass, and a beautiful face. The only thing wrong with her now was the dress.
"Damn Hana," Fenris said. "You look great."
"Thanks," Hana smiled. "Now I just need to get this dress off."
"My thoughts exactly," both Fenris and Sofia said, then laughed.
"Enough!" Naofumi said. "Let's just get back to the inn without a discussion about your sex lives. Fuck you're all horrible people."
Everyone laughed and they headed back to the ferryman, riding back to the main island and heading to the inn. There was a huge crowd of adventurers at the bar, drinkin and celebrating. So once Hana had changed, Fenris and his girls, including Shiva, joined them. WithiWithin seconds, Motoyasu had found them, starting with Hana, and receiving a foot to the crotch, before moving on to Shiva, only for her to freeze his lips closed. Fenris chuckled.
"I'll say this one last time, Motoyasu, for your benefit," Fenris said. "Leave my girls alone. They don't like you."
Motoyasu groaned and Fenris used his Dragon Soul Sword to thaw his mouth for him. Motoyasu slunk away and Fenris laughed, returning to drinking.
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