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Chapter 2

The third law (2/2)
Added Sun Jan 28 06:11:18 2024 at level 36:

The warrior's spear took her through the spine, the ensorcelled iron blade
exiting from her chest in a spray which soon turned the shallows red. She
stumbled, tried to keep going. Tried to fumble for the last teleportation
potion. Tried to turn. Tried...

The axe fell from limp fingers. The barrier wand, unused, sat tauntingly
within her pocket. The small fishing boat drifted away on the water,
observed and ignored as the last attempt of an anathema to escape imperial
justice.

It was bloody work, the third law of the Empire of Thera.

But as the Imperial blade lead his hunting party away from the looted
corpse of the fool former Black Magician who had thought that she'd be the
exception to the rule, he gave little thought to the violence. Indeed, he
could not stop smiling.

There was a promotion waiting for him, for certain.