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I craned ns of the interlopers My blood ran cold “Oh That sure as hell isn’t night security”

There was a group of people headed directly for us, maybe seven of the out in the trees for an ambush That was the sneaky kind of shit demons loved to pull How did I know they were demons, you ask? Because that last woman from back at the alley – the one who’d pelted e, like the tip of a fla arrowhead

“Fuck,” I ot us cornered We’ll have to fight our way out”

Florian cracked his knuckles,of joints and the creaking of dried tree bark “Bring it,” he growled

Good thing we had a goddess on our side I turned around to ask Artemis for her help, but all that reht Arteone

See what I mean? Goddamn entities

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It wasn’t even a question of how friendly or close you were to entities Everyone I knew in the arcane underground had told hty and fickle they could be I’d seen what Arteht She could have dropped these demon fools in seconds

And yet, there ere, two against seven Wait, nope, nine There were two shorter ones reat

“I don’t like these odds,” I ies of the Vestments

“We can take ’e just a little too relaxed for my taste

That was the good thing about having friends to count on, an actual support group We had people to fill different roles The nine demons slowly approached us in a semicircle What we could have used was someone who could blast their asses back to hell with a few dozen fireballs I could fight up close with the Vesthts out, maybe even break soed specialists Covering fire, essentially, but our artillery had already skipped off in a beaht

Ugh Entities I held olden sword ers Nothe anyone alive

The first fireball ca towards us, aimed directly between me and Florian

“Scatter,” he shouted, diving out of the way as the fireball exploded into ato divide us Sure enough, their pack split into two Four of them, fire-woman included, chased after Florian The other five closed in on me