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Chapter 1918: Growing Strength
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    DanielPlay
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    I find it a little strange that Sunny doesn't counterattack the ambush that Song made, Sunny's original plan was to attack Song's army due to the proximity of his citadel. Weakly if he doesn't attack I'll be disappointed, that attack by Song, where several Saints of Valor died and all of Ki Song's daughters came out alive still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.
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      Dummybaron
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      If Sunny going to counter attack he will kill either as many Saints as clan Song did or less, because Nephis and Sunny don't want to doom humanity after the war. Saints before war were very limited if only 40 of them will be left after the war Humanity is doomed. Mordret killed around 20, clan Song killed how much? 3-4? only ~75 Saints left in the world.
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        DanielPlay
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        And what does it matter? War is war, Sunny himself said that these were just the first of many saints who will die in war, what difference does it make whether he kills now or later? He was already going to do it when the King of Swords ordered him to delay the advance of the Song army. 🤔🤔🤔
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          Dummybaron
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          Thats true honestly Idk who I am trying to fool. By the end of the war around 70% of humanity is doomed no matter what anyway.
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        Peak Talen
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        No? I'm pretty sure when the time skip happened, it was said that there are about 1k Saints now
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          Eternity of Reading
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          Confidently incorrect. At least you weren’t cocky.
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            Peak Talen
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            I'm sorry, but it literally does say there's around a thousand now, when it was talking about their strength relative to other Saints and giving them categories. If I'm wrong, give me the quote of it stating there's less(or more) than that
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              Glox
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              No there is around a hundred saints.
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                Peak Talen
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                That was before Antarctica. IT'S LITERALLY STATED THERE'S AROUND A THOUSAND
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                  Glox
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                  No bro in Antarctica there were a few dozen.
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                  Peak Talen
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                  Then give me the direct quote where it says there's only around a hundred
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                  Glox
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                  Sure chapter 1603
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                  Rãōõñ
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                  He didn't reply back huh
                  Must be true
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                  Zy7r
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                  Before Antarctica there was a dozen saints with each clan and one with the government, now there's more 40 with song and about 40 with valor, night has become weaker so there's maybe 20 with them, and the government now has 5 saints so counting them all there's about 110 Saints in the world
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      REN・DOVERঐ
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      It's simple really. You need saint to conquer citadels and you need citadels if you want to increase your area of influence as a sovreign and you need to increase the area of influence if you want to keep the spell from taking all the people that have migrated from the waking world to the dream realm's great citadels. Simple.
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    REN・DOVERঐ
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    We might be overlooking the actual reson for this war. If we recall what professor Obel said, it was that the more powerful and numerous awakened became, the more powerful horrors the dream realm and it's creatures became, it's like a balancing act. I can see this war as a froont front for culling the numbers of saint, ascended and awakened which will force the spell to balance the power.
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      Doksoo
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      well, they will reduce the number of awakened ones, which will not further reduce the number of existing gates and so on, besides, given that they have already begun to move into the world of dreams, they NEED awakened ones EVEN MORE to protect the territory. As a result, there are much more losses than benefits from the war.
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        REN・DOVERঐ
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        True but since the sovereigns are beings that the spell have tied to the dream realm, it will surely try to balance the power back in the waking world. If I remember correctly, the times when the world was hit with tragedies were also the times where humanity had an influx of emerging awakened.
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      DanielPlay
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      I think you're mistaken. It's not the creatures that get stronger, but rather the gates that open in the awakened world that correspond to the strength of the awakened. The creatures of the Nightmare have always existed, with all levels of power. The dream realm is already swallowing up the awakened world. I don't see any reason to reduce the number of awakened ones. In fact, from what we've seen Nephis say, every awakened one counts for the future.
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        REN・DOVERঐ
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        I get what you mean and it's what I'm saying. If there is a drastic reduction in the number of awakened, the spell will try to balance the power.
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      MefetraN7
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      Так миру земли в любом случае конец, это там такой закон работает что тем сильнее люди, тем сильнее враги, в царстве снов это не так работает. Так что я не понимаю в чем обреченность человечества. Люди завоевывают и развиваются в царстве снов. Становятся все сильнее и сильнее. По мне сами люди себе огромная угроза с разными аспектами. Таже королева в случае чего может перебить свое население ради силы. Силы нефиса че то там делают, уже забыл, в теории людей может сделать безвольными верующими ведь она манипулирует верой и надеждой, уже забыл. Про мордреда вообще промолчу.
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    Lrb
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    Valeu a pena acumular 6 dias, depois da perca dos 7 santos de valor eu perdi o interesse na novel e larguei, mas a interação de nefis x Sunny é o que me mantém aqui. Dês de 2022 até agora só paro de ler se o romance desses dois der errado por um motivo "G3".
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    EmberofShadows
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    "There was even an enormous reptile with powerful hind legs and short, underdeveloped arms, its tyrannical footsteps making the ground shake."

    Wait, could this be Dynisor from all the way back in the Dreamscape? He had a partial transformation into a dinosaur, and seemed pretty competent, plus we've already seen Dar of the Marhanna clan too. If so, that'd be a great callback from G3.
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      Doomvader
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      Dayumm how you remembering these tidbits of lore. I can't seem to remember the dreamscape arc that much, it's been a 1.5 years since i last read that part tho
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        EmberofShadows
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        I've reread the novel recently enough that certain details like this have stuck around + his nickname combined with his aspect was a funny combo, so it made it easier to remember him.
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    ZEXOS
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    1919. Ancient Jungle


    As the army marched into the jungle, several figures plummeted from high above to surround it. This time, however, they were not Nightmare Creatures — although some looked quite monstrous.

    Instead, they were the Saints who had been holding the abomination tide back on the surface, and were retreating now that the enemy could not be stalled anymore.

    Some had assumed their human forms to descend safely with the help of Memories, some were naturally able to fly while Transformed. Others simply took the fall, relying on the nature of their bestial bodies to withstand the damage. The thick canopy of the jungle helped cushion their fall, somewhat, but the impacts were still chilling.

    In that brief moment, Rain noticed all kinds of awesome creatures.

    There was a monstrous, but eerily beautiful harpy with flood dripping from her sharp claws and red lips. There was a giant with the head of a jackal, his towering body the color of obsidian. There was a hill—sized canine with three heads, his bloodied jaws powerful enough to grind mountains to dust. There was a horrid creature that resembled a horned lion with a viper for the tail, drops of venom dripping from its fangs.

    There was even an enormous reptile with powerful hind legs and short, underdeveloped arms, its tyrannical footsteps making the ground shake.

    The Saints were battered and bleeding, their powerful bodies a map of wounds. However, they did not seem to pay it any attention — landing on the ground, they instantly assumed positions around the army, ready to defend the soldiers from those inhabitants of the ancient jungle that had survived the passage of the daughters of Ki Song.

    Sadly, the expedition force was so large that even three dozen Transcendent champions were not enough to protect everyone. The feeling of safety provided by the sight of them was an illusion.

    Rain gripped her bow nervously as the scarlet canopy obscured the distant dome of the great Hollow.

    Countless luminous Memories chased the darkness away, making it easy to see the surroundings. The jungle of the Hollows... was both similar and different to the one infesting the surface.

    The shapes, the colors, and the smell were all the same. However, this jungle was much more ancient, therefore, more harrowing.

    The trees were many times taller, the vines were as thick as a human body, and the moss was deep enough to swallow a person whole in some places...

    Of course, to digest them.

    The trees were just as hungry, and some of the vines moved like enormous snakes, ensnaring people and rending their bodies with razor-sharp thorns. There were blood-sucking insects the size of a human head and crawling bugs with mandibles long enough to bite off one's foot... those moved in swarms, of course, felling people and devouring them in a matter of seconds. Soon enough, the jungle was filled with the rustle of weapons and chilling screams.

    The ancient jungle of the Hollows was absolutely deadly — and that was even after Princess Seishan and Death Singer had passed here, obliterating the most dangerous predators.

    The traces of their passage were everywhere. The towering trees were snapped and shattered, the predatory vines torn apart. The hideously torn, enormous corpses of terrifying Nightmare Creatures were laying here and there like dark hills of torn flesh, lakes of fetid blood pooling below them.

    In some places, entire swathes of the jungle were entirely destroyed, as if a hurricane had passed there.

    Dark liquid was sipping from beneath the fallen trees.

    Rain was stunned and horrified by the nightmarish reality surrounding her at first, but quickly grew numb to it. There was no time to feel fear, anyway. "Another one!"

    She drew her bow and let an arrow loose, aiming at the buzzing of wings above. The blood-sucking horrors hid themselves in the thick canopy of the jungle and were too fast for an Awakened to see when they attacked — however, she could sense their shadows, see in the darkness, and hear them. That was just barely enough to give her a chance to hit the abominable vermin before they killed someone.

    Their elongated, blade-like mouths were already deadly enough, leaving terrible wounds on the bodies of their victims. Much worse, they secreted some kind of toxin that paralyzed the victim, stopping a human heart in a matter of seconds. Usually, by the time the creature was noticed, it was already too late.

    But not this time.

    A blurry silhouette shot toward the marching soldiers from high above, but was intercepted by her arrow in the air. The wings and the carapace of these creatures were so tough that her enchanted bow couldn‘t even put a dent in them, but the soft belly was somewhat vulnerable.

    Hit by the arrow, the blood—sucker lost balance and fell to the ground. Immediately, the Awakened soldiers rushed at it.

    Their Memories were not powerful enough to kill the creature, so they struggled to immobilize it instead — special wire nets were thrown over the appalling insect, which it promptly tore apart and escaped. Luckily, the delay was enough for one of the Ascended to appear, shattering the creature‘s carapace with a devastating strike of their heavy mace.

    At that time...

    Not too far away, a soldier was screaming as he found himself drowning in the scarlet patch of moss. His comrades managed to pull him free, but by then, his lower legs had already dissolved in the digestive fluid.

    At the same time...

    A tall tree shook, and a rain of vermilion leaves fell from its branches. Each leaf was like a serrated blade, easily slicing through enchanted armor, flesh, and bone. A dozen soldiers fell to the ground, bleeding — some of them dead, some gravely wounded. Both the dead and the living were then pulled underground by the roots that emerged from beneath. Other humans tried to dig them up, but it was useless.

    At the same time...

    A vine covered in beautiful flowers released a cloud of scarlet pollen into the air, and a few soldiers that were not fast enough to escape dropped their weapons to the ground, walking into the red haze with empty expressions. By the time the pollen dissipated, they were gone — vanished without a trace, with not even footprints hinting at what might have happened to them. Rain covered her mouth with a hand, looking around with horror.

    "I‘his... this is hell. It must be.’

    All around the marching army, the Saints were engaged in desperate battles with the Great abominations that emerged from the jungle from time to time, attracted by the smell of human souls.

    And behind the army, the tide of Nightmare Creatures was drawing closer with each minute, threatening to catch up with the formation's tail.

    Surrounded and pursued, the warriors of Song marched toward the distant Citadel.
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      ZEXOS
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      1920. Marching Through Hell


      Eventually, the already dire situation turned into absolute chaos.

      The horde of Nightmare Creatures had caught up with the expedition force, and the rear of the formation became engrossed in a moving battle. Several Saints led the defensive efforts, slaughtering the menacing abominations with all their might.

      The death toll among the Nightmare Creatures was high, but the soldiers were suffering heavy casualties, as well.

      Luckily — or perhaps unfortunately — the mad frenzy of the pursuing Nightmare Creatures had caused a destructive chain reaction in the Hollows. The local predators were overcome by hunger and bloodlust at the sight of human troops, but they weren't happy to see the numerous abominations from the surface invade their territory, either.

      To the Great Ones inhabiting the ancient jungle, the weak surface dwellers were nothing but prey, just like humans were.

      For that reason, the pursuing horde suffered a terrifying massacre when appalling silhouettes lunged into it from the jungle. The ancient predators grew mad from the stench of blood, slaughtering everything they could see with chilling cruelty... a few of them fell, too, buried under an avalanche of hideous monsters.

      The internal strife between the rightful rulers of the Hollows and the invading surface dwellers alleviated some of the pressure on the army, but not a lot of it. The expedition force was still bleeding lives -— not a staggering number of them, but more than ever before.

      The people trapped in this morbid hell soon found themselves missing the unpredictable and inescapable radiance of the deadly sky. Who would have thought?

      Rain, meanwhile...

      Was missing the weird antics and ridiculous stories of her teacher.

      In the past four years, she had lived through plenty of frightening situations. Hunting Nightmare Creatures as a mundane girl was not a safe vocation, after all... but he was always there, with her, talking her through the difficult ordeals and taking care of her when she felt lost.

      He was still with her, hiding in her shadow, but because they were surrounded by thousands of soldiers, her teacher could not speak.

      Even though Rain would never admit it, she would have loved to hear him tell an outrageously nonsensical story with a straight face right now.

      'Let's see...‘

      Breathing heavily, she helped 'l‘amar deal with a monstrous tick that had lunged at them from a branch and assessed how much essence she had left.

      One benefit of not having an Aspect was that she rarely ran low on it, unlike other Awakened. So, Rain was doing quite fine, for now.

      'What would he say in this situation?‘

      Probably something like... "What, this? This is nothing! Have I told you about that time I climbed into a Cursed Terror‘s nest and stole its egg? l was actually looking for tasty fruit to treat someone special, but that nest was in the way..." Actually, he might have actually told her that one.

      Or...

      "The Hollows? Oh, I've been there. On a date, of sorts. With Lady Changing Star. Who is my girlfriend..."

      Despite the dreadful situation, Rain smiled crookedly.

      'Yeah, right.‘

      She could actually believe that her teacher had stolen from a Cursed Terror once — he did look like the kind of scoundrel to attempt such lunacy — but that last one was too laughably ridiculous even by his standards.

      Manifesting another arrow in her enchanted quiver, she nocked it on the string of her bow and took a deep breath.

      'Let's just survive. Believe in Lady Seishan... she will not lead her army to certain doom.'

      If not because she was a virtuous leader...

      Then at least because she needed that army to fight the forces of the Sword Domain in the future.

      'The Citadel must not be that far, by now.‘

      And it wasn't.

      Some time later, the Seventh Legion was sent to the rear of the formation. They steeled their hearts and plunged into the bloodshed, retreating slowly while holding back the frenzied mob of Nightmare Creatures. The Saints were fighting some distance away, breaking the tide, while the soldiers served as the shield of the formation.

      In some ways, it was much more dangerous here, in the rear of the escaping army — that was because the abominations were numerous and driven to utter madness both by their lust for human souls and by the terror of the Great Ones rampaging in the horde far behind.

      Between the ancient rulers of the Hollows and the human soldiers, countless Nightmare Creatures had already been slain, and more were dying each minute. But in other ways, fighting against them was much safer than marching further into the army formation. That was because most of the dangers hiding in the ancient jungle — like the blood-sucking horrors, the razor—sharp falling leaves, the man—eating patches of moss, and the clouds of scarlet pollen — would be dealt with or at least discovered by those who marched in the front.

      After withstanding the flood of abominations for a while, the Seventh Legion was rotated to the head of the column.

      By then, the army had almost caught up with the daughters of Ki Song.

      Rain and the other legionnaires dragged their tired bodies to the front of the formation, where they were supposed to get a little rest. Since Lady Seishan and Death Singer were so close, the jungle was safer than before — its inhabitants had just been slaughtered by the Transcendent princesses, and those pests that had survived were hiding, afraid to attract their attention.

      Finally, they caught sight of their general.

      Lady Seishan was standing on the trunk of a fallen tree, her crimson dress ripped and soaked in blood. Her eyes were sunken, and a dark smile was twisting her alluring red lips.

      Her sister was leaning on the trunk, huddled and covering her face with the hood of her black robe.

      Rain was curious to know what they were looking at.

      Up ahead, behind the fallen tree, the jungle receded, revealing a vast clearing. And there, in the distance...

      She could finally see the Citadel.
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        Chaos_WarGod
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        Dude i really appreciate this
        But can't u just talk to site admins and share with them link of wherever u got this from
        U it will save u efforts
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          DanielPlay
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          A guy posted the link to the doc with the chapters a few comments ago, that's probably where he got it from and just pasted it here.
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    Elrenegat
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    There is this saying that says that sometimes it's not about the destination, but the journey
    But sometimes, it's also about the destination
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    Crosby
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    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G9S3VyClddIKfEkrDzkQoReSQOvz_s8EbFv3VTCNwT0/edit?usp=sharing 1919 1920
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    Nitin Kumar_2
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    You know that for sometime nightmare creature are shown just to increase tension nowadays. Tbh i miss the days of Antarctica where nightmare creature were actually threat. But now it's seem these creatures are just to increase tension, because we already know they will pass the horde easily. I am convinced that even if a divine nightmare creature came , they will somehow escape.
    Well it's just my opinion. You tell me what do you think
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      Elrenegat
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      I think that rain is going to get slaughtered by a nightmare creature next chapter, as well as tamar and ray
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        Dummybaron
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        There is one thing called her Shadow, so it's not going to happen
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          Elrenegat
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          Oh and fleur is going to make up with a great beast and call it choco
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      Dummybaron
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      Antarctica's atmosphere of powerlessnes was build on the fact that Sunny had only his Cohort against all kind of horrors LO49, Goliath, Heart of Darkness, Flying All-Devouring Swarm, not going to count Winter Beast because he was more of a aprouching Death and showstopper(It's like meeting Cursed Titan in God's Grave no one will save you). objective was not even to win, but to survive, get some time to escape and all that was barely achivable.

      Now it's war. War is on massive scale there is hundreds of thousands awakened of cource Nightmare creatures are going to be only to add a bit tention. And it's not even cool Nightmare creatures that I listed above, Its just Normal Nightmare creatures and let me tell you they always been fodders by themselves and only in armies created a bit of tention. Even in so beloved Antarctica there was Regular Nightmare creatures who were just fodders who pose a threat only to mundane people or when Sunny had to protect refugees(which is basically mundane people) apart from that they always have been like that. And some Strong Nightmare creatures in God's Grave are either killed by Saints or they are so strong, even Saints have to run away from them, 1 Great Titan and all this army perishes

      Antarctica was cool and all but I don't think its atmosphere are going to fit in War arc, they are too different.
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        Nitin Kumar_2
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        I understand what you are saying, but godgrave was always shown a dangerous area where a saint might not survive. And now they are just hanging out here and there .

        I know Antarctica arc was different but there were less powerful creatures than god grave .there were casualties in the war. If you have forgotten, i want you remind that only jet and sunny were able to escape. But now even seishan is leading who knows how big army and there aren't that much casualties.

        And also the point that all soldiers seems to have same personality. Every time a soldier or may person is showed fighting nightmare creature, it goes like this nightmare creature were flooding one after another, his essence was about to end . But he or she gritted hie or her teeth and push forward with determined eyes. I mean every one seems to like sunny who struggled in past arc to survive. There is no uniqueness to his character and it seems like all are same .


        Of course that doesn't make the novel bad, it's good. But it's actually frustrate me some time
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          SrgtLock
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          They aren’t just hanging out there in godgrave, they are actively dieing in the process. Don’t be fooled, this is no walk in the park or hike through the woods, this is a meat grinder operation.
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    Maltetu
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    Quote: Amistar
    Чисто научный интерес, а сколько тут русских?
    А то были и итальянцы, и испанцы, но все как-то из комментариев пропали, а русские всё сидят

    at least two)
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    RedVic
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    Damn G3 is great at writing brutal wars just like the Forgotten Shore
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