STORMWEAVER II: EPILOGUE Sneak Peek (Patreon)

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Processing combat information.

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Calculating.

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Results:

Strength: Severely Lacking

Endurance: Severely Lacking

Speed: Severely Lacking

Cognition: Severely Lacking

Offense: Severely Lacking

Defense: Severely Lacking

Growth: Severely Lacking

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Checking combat data acquisition.

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Adequate data acquirement met.

Device initiating adjustments to:

Endurance.

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Processing.

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Adjustment complete.

Endurance has been upgraded from Rank C0 to C1.

Victory.

Elation coursed through Viv, so visceral and real it actually hurt to experience as she tensed with excitement, every inch of her screaming in protest at this given the battering it had just received. This was it. This was how she would catch up. She pondered, for a moment there on her back, why this kind of brutal training wasn’t a regular part of User regimen, but then thought better of it. For one thing she could already tell she’d overdone it, and probably wasn’t going to be able to move all weekend, much less tomorrow.

For another… For various unvoiced reasons, Viv was starting to suspect that only members of Firesong were probably capable of this speed of improvement, torturous though the method was…

Anticipation overruled sense, and Viv ignored the scream of her muscles and bones and joints to climb to her feet and face the sparring partner once more. Managing it, she had to catch herself has she stumbled, her vision spinning, and a second later she found herself blinking blearily at the ground, a curious color lightly splattering the otherwise-white floor.

Was that… blood?

The whir of the drone confirmed it for her even before Viv tasted iron and brought a hand to her nose, pulling it away to see wet red darkening the edges of her fingers.

“Well that can’t be good…” she grumbled even as the drone atomized the blood before her eyes, her lips tingling as the scanner swept her face too.

But just the same she straightened and faced the grey man once more.

“Call.”