will kill you, I promise."


    how. How is it that a wanted criminal you were assured was dead has now come walking, quite alive, into the very heart of the most guarded place in your entire Kingdom? How is it that you have proven so very vulnerable? And I say to you, look around you. You have stumbled without leadership for fifteen years, and then, when your council finally decides to resolve the issue, what means do they choose? A tournament. A chance to let noble brats beat each other with swords for their house''s honor and their parents'' entertainment, and they call that government. It is characteristic of your system. Your nobles cannot lead, your priests say nothing but platitudes, your guilds care for nothing but enriching themselves at your expense.


    Adept, no doubt cheating their way to victory through powers that no mere mortal can match? Emblematic of the corruption and hypocrisy that dodges this nation, would you not agree? Still, there is more than one path to power. Where flesh fails, technology may serve. Allow me to demonstrate."


    never unarmed."


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    sudden Hiram''s death had been.


    will kill you all. It''s your choice, old man."


    will kill you."


    where is Artakane?"


    Do you want to live? Then get up, you fool, and fight!


    You are a queen, Artakane! Queens do not cower, and they do not wait passively for death! Live, Artakane! Live and be avenged!


    this terrifying man?


    reached down into his body with all of her will, an Adept''s will trained by Shiran; she found the countless connections between his cybernetic and organic parts, and as one, she severed them.