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[Assistant] It was seawater in the middle of a Texas ranch.


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[Assistant] I scooped up another handful of dirt and picked out the shell fossils.


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[Assistant] I didn't really know what I was doing, but I ran around the length of the stable, throwing shells into the dung piles. Everywhere a shell hit, a saltwater spring erupted. Stop! the horses cried. Meat is good! Baths are bad!


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[Assistant] Then I noticed the water wasn't running out of the stables or flowing downhill like water normally would. It simply bubbled around each spring and sank into the ground, taking the dung with it.


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[Assistant] There was a tugging sensation in my gut, and the water spouts exploded like the world's largest car wash.


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[Assistant] Salt water shot twenty feet into the air. The horses went crazy, running back and forth as the geysers sprayed them from all directions. Mountains of poop began to melt like ice.


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[Assistant] The tugging sensation became more intense, painful even, but there was something exhilarating about seeing all that salt water.


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[Assistant] Water was sloshing everywhere now. The horses were drenched, and some were panicking and slipping in the mud. The poop was completely gone. Tons of it just dissolved into the earth, and the water was now starting to pool, trickling out of the stable, making a hundred little streams down toward the river.


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[Assistant] Stop, I told the water. Nothing happened. The pain in my gut was building.


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[Assistant] If I didn't shut off the geyser soon, the salt water would run into the river and poison the fish and plants.


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[Assistant] Stop! I concentrated all my might on shutting off the force of the sea. Suddenly, the geyser shut down.


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[Assistant] I collapsed to my knees, exhausted. In front of me was a shiny clean horse stable, a field of wet salty mud, and fifty horses that had been scoured so thoroughly their coats gleamed. Even the meat scraps between their teeth had been washed out.


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[Assistant] We won't eat you, the horses wailed. Please Lord, no more salty baths.


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[Assistant] On one condition, I said, you only eat the food your handlers give you from now on, not people, or I'll be back with more seashells.


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[Assistant] The horses whinnied and made me a whole lot of promises that they would be good, flesh-eating horses from now on, but I didn't stick around to chat. The sun was going down.


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[Assistant] I turned and ran full speed toward the ranch house.


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[Assistant] I smelled the barbecue before I reached the house, and that made me madder than ever, because I really love barbecue.


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[Assistant] The deck was set up for a party. Streamers and balloons decorated the railing. Garian was flipping burgers on a huge barbecue cooker made from an oil drum. Iridian lounged at a picnic table, picking his fingernails with a knife.


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[Assistant] The two-headed dog sniffed the ribs and burgers that were frying on the grill. And then I saw my friends, Tyson, Grover, Anabeth, and Nico, all tossed in a corner, tied up like rodeo animals, with their ankles and wrists roped together and their mouths gagged.


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[Assistant] Let them go! I yelled, still out of breath from running up the steps. I cleaned the stables! Garian turned.


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[Assistant] He wore an apron on each chest with one word on each, so together they spelled out kiss the chef. Did you now? How'd you manage it?


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[Assistant] I've come to the Royal Institution, the scene of many a scientific breakthrough over the years. So, a good place to test whether sweets are good for kids.


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[Assistant] So we're going to heat up the oxidizing agent in a test tube, and this is potassium chlorate.


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[Assistant] So, that has created all that energy, which of course, if we don't use up in exercise, is going to be stored as fat.


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[Assistant] Why do the papers think they could write that sweets prevent kids from getting overweight?


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[Assistant] To help me understand, I'm speaking to an expert from Sense About Science, a charitable trust that helps the public make sense of scientific and medical claims.


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[Assistant] You know, sometimes studies are funded by, say, brands or products. I mean, clearly, that's potentially going to have an...


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[Assistant] So Sheila, what is your overall interpretation of this study?


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[Assistant] While the study found that children who were fed the right portions of sweets from an early age did learn the vital skills of food discipline, it did admit there were limitations in their paper.


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[Assistant] Finally we came out of the woods. Perched on a hill above us was a big ranch house. All white stone and wood and big windows.


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[Assistant] It looks like a Frank Lloyd Wright, Annabeth said.


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[Assistant] I guess she was talking about some architectural thing.


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[Assistant] To me it just looked like the kind of place where a few demigods could get into serious trouble. We hiked up the hill. Don't break the rules.


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[Assistant] Why? I asked, what does he look like?


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[Assistant] Before Iridian could reply, a new voice said, Welcome to the Triple G Ranch.


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[Assistant] The man on the porch had a normal head, which was a relief.


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[Assistant] His face was weathered and brown from years in the sun.


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[Assistant] He had slick black hair and a black pencil mustache like villains have in old movies.


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[Assistant] He smiled at us, but the smile wasn't friendly. More amused, like, oh boy, more people to torture.


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[Assistant] I didn't ponder that very long though, because then I noticed his body, or bodies. He had three of them.


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[Assistant] Now, you'd think I would've gotten used to weird anatomy after Janus and Briarus, but this guy was three complete people.


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[Assistant] His neck connected to the middle chest like normal, but he had two more chests, one to either side, connected at the shoulders with a few inches in between.


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[Assistant] His left arm grew out of his left chest, and the same on the right. So he had two arms, but four armpits, if that makes any sense.


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[Assistant] The chests all connected into one enormous torso with two regular but very beefy legs and he wore the most oversized pair of Levi's I'd ever seen.


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[Assistant] His chests each wore a different color western shirt. Green, yellow, red, like a stoplight. I wondered how he dressed the middle chest, since it had no arms. The cowherd Iridian nudged me.


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[Assistant] Before the three-bodied man could respond, Nico de Angelo came out of the glass doors onto the porch.


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[Assistant] He froze when he saw us. Then he drew a sword. The blade was just like I'd seen in my dream. Short, sharp, and dark as midnight.


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[Assistant] Garian snarled when he saw it. Put that away, Mr. D'Angelo. I ain't gonna have my guests killin' each other. But that's Percy Jackson, Garian supplied, and a Beth Chase, and a couple of their monster friends. Yes, I know.


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[Assistant] Monster friends, Grover said indignantly.


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[Assistant] That man is wearing three shorts, Tyson said. Like he was just realizing this. They let my sister die!


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[Assistant] Nico's voice trembled with rage. They're here to kill me!


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[Assistant] Nico, we're not here to kill you. I raised my hands. What happened to Bianca was, don't speak her name. You're not worthy to even talk about her. Wait a minute. Annabeth pointed a Garian. How do you know our names?


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[Assistant] The three-bodied man winked, I'll make it my business to keep informed, darling. Everybody pops into the ranch from time to time. Everyone needs something from ol' Garian.


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[Assistant] Now, Mr. D'Angelo, put that ugly sword away before I have Iridian take it from you.


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[Assistant] The boy attached a leather harness to his father's chest, like climbing gear, with straps that ran from his shoulders to his wrists. Then he began fastening on the wings using a metal canister that looked like an enormous hot glue gun.


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[Assistant] The wax compound should hold for several hours. But we must let it set first. And we would do well to avoid flying too high or too low. The sea would wet the wax seals.


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[Assistant] The boy finished. Yes father, we've been through this a million times. One cannot be too careful.


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[Assistant] I have complete faith in your inventions, Father. No one has ever been as smart as you.


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[Assistant] The old man's eyes shone. It was obvious he loved his son more than anything in the world.


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[Assistant] Now I will do your wings and give mine a chance to sit properly. Come.


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[Assistant] It was slow going. The old man's hands fumbled with the straps. He had a hard time keeping the wings in position while he sealed them. His own metal wings seemed to weigh him down, getting in his way while he tried to work. Too slow.


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[Assistant] The old man muttered, I am too slow. Take your time, Father, the boy said. The guards aren't due until BOOM! The workshop doors shuttered.


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[Assistant] Something heavy was slamming into the doors. The brace held but a crack appeared in the left door.


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[Assistant] Daedalus worked furiously. A drop of hot wax spilled onto Icarus's shoulder. The boy winced but did not cry out.


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[Assistant] When his left wing was sealed to the straps, Dedalus began working on the right.


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[Assistant] We must have more time. Deadless murmured. They are too early. We need more time for the seal to hold.


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[Assistant] It'll be fine, Ikura said, as his father finished the right wing. Help me with the manhole.


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[Assistant] Crash! The door splintered, and the head of a bronze battering ram emerged through the breach. Axes cleared the debris, and two armed guards entered the room, followed by the king with the golden crown and the spear-shaped beard. Well, well, the king said with a cruel smile. Going somewhere?


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[Assistant] King Minus chuckled, I was curious to see how far you'd get on this little project before I dashed your hopes. I must say I'm impressed.


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[Assistant] The king admired their wings. You look like metal chickens, he decided.


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[Assistant] Perhaps we should pluck you and make a soup. The guards laughed stupidly. Metal chickens, one repeated. Soup. Shut up.


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[Assistant] The king said, then he turned again to Daedalus.


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[Assistant] You let my daughter escape, old man. You drove my wife to madness. You killed my monster and made me the laughing stock of the Mediterranean. You will never escape me.


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[Assistant] Icarus grabbed the wax gun and sprayed it at the king, who stepped back in surprise. The guards rushed forward, but each got a stream of hot wax in his face. The vent! Icarus yelled to his father. Get them! King Minos raged.


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[Assistant] Together, the old man and his son pried open the manhole cover, and a column of hot air blasted out of the ground. The king watched, incredulous, as the inventor and son shot into the sky on their bronze wings, carried by the updraft.


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[Assistant] Shoot them! The king yelled, but his guards had brought no bows. One threw his sword in desperation, but Daedalus and Icarus were already out of reach. They wheeled above the maze and the king's palace, then zoomed across the city of Knossos and out past the rocky shores of Crete. Icarus laughed. Free, father! You did it!


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[Assistant] I'll take that stuff. You go around the shed, through the trees, a cabin back there.


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[Assistant] Fine way to get squared around, teaming with them, stealing money and robbing banks.


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[Assistant] You're trying to say I should have a fella? That fella ought to be you. Is that it?


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[Assistant] I can't stay here. Papa's gone up to town. He'll get himself sauced and shoot his mouth off.


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[Assistant] Banks aren't fools. They'll be ready in waitin'. I don't wanna pick up a newspaper and read the Zeltan bandits killed!


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[Assistant] Just promise me one thing, boy. No matter what he says, you won't rob that bank. Just tell me that and you can go see him and I'll wait for you.


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[Assistant] That's just what I would like. I'll wear my great flannel suit.


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[Assistant] You go ahead kid, I'll follow ya. And you better stomp it or I'll run you down.


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[Assistant] Don't you tell me what to do. You ask me if I want to do it.


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[Assistant] Yeah? You got a place for us? Hell, man! Well, that depends. How long game to stay? A month or two.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, what is it, folks? Well, don't you have a place a little away from the others? Aha. Just married, ain't you?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Learn that, Alvin. Just married people like to be alone.


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[Assistant] This place I'm going to show you is clean away from everything but the sky and the trees. Uh, did you travel far? Pretty far. Well, how'd you happen to come here? Friends told us about it. You see, Alvin, a satisfied customer is your best advertisement. Oh, uh, this is it. Uh, turn right in here.


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[Assistant] I used to forget everything in chapel. I used to feel light and happy and near God. Let me help you. What is worrying you? I remember things before I joined our order. Things I wanted to forget. I never thought of them until now. I've been 21 years in the order and now they come back to me.


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[Assistant] I think you can see too far. I look out there and then I can't see the potato I'm planting. And after a bit it doesn't seem to matter whether I plant it or not.


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[Assistant] I was losing the spirit of our order. I've been thinking it over, you see, and I must go at once.


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[Assistant] There are only two ways of living in this place. Either you must live like Mr. Dean or, or like the holy man.


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[Assistant] The housekeeper brought in the first dish. She was about forty, with a strange wild expression on her pale face. She seemed almost afraid of her master, and looked anxiously at him whenever she entered the room. The food was indeed very good, and the conversation was cheerful.


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[Assistant] But somehow Mr. Jaggers made us all show the worst side of our characters and encouraged Drummle, who we all disliked, to annoy us.


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[Assistant] When Drummle stupidly said that he was stronger than any of us, we all protested.


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[Assistant] Foolishly showing each other our muscles to prove how strong we were. Suddenly...


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[Assistant] Mr Jaggers clapped his large hand on the housekeepers as she was removing a dish. We stopped talking immediately.


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[Assistant] I tried to enlist, they wouldn't take me. I got a trick knee from college football, I just couldn't get in.


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[Assistant] I play a sharp game of bridge with Park Avenue friends. I take a flyer on the stock market on inside tips. When I'm hard up, I borrow money. That's the truth.


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[Assistant] Oh, there's nothing missing. I don't have any valuables.


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[Assistant] I know you fellas get some remarkable results, but I can't say I altogether like it. It


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[Assistant] You think that'll pick up on that? Yeah, maybe a little bit, but, yeah. I mean, I don't think I have a window open, I think it's just horribly loud. But that's living in California for you, baby. It sure is. We got leafs, baby! Yeah, I remember, so, uh,


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[Assistant] A dear old friend of mine, Yo Tom. Uh, Yo Tom Perrow.


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[Assistant] He, uh, moved to LA recently, like right before the Backstreet Boys reunion tour. And, uh, he's been making YouTube videos that are hilarious. And, like, he opened up his video and he was like, What is it with LA and leaf blowers? And I was like,


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[Assistant] Got it. Well I- I fucked up. Everything fucked up.


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[Assistant] I hate how I have to go all the way back and- oh whoops.


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[Assistant] We've got a lot of bops. And one. And two. And three. And hit the thing.


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[Assistant] Very nice. Oh shit. I have to climb, and then bop. Did I do it?


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[Assistant] Okay, so check this out. Uh huh. Do you remember that game, Super Mario 3D World? I do. That we played? It was like co-op?


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[Assistant] So, they made DLC for it.


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[Assistant] Oh no. Oh no. Oh no, this is gonna be a problem. Oh, I can't.


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[Assistant] There we go. This is a good thing to go back.


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[Assistant] Women slacks. He was in the Mandalorian, dude.


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[Assistant] Yeah, apparently, I don't know what- I don't know if this is like a thing, but they just like make comedians droids. Like they cast comedians as the droids.


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[Assistant] It's like, in Rogue One it was like Alan Tudyk I think? And then, uh, I mean I guess he's mostly an actor but-


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, I mean, come on. Uhm, but like, yeaah, and then, and then Moss was... Richard Ayoade was, uh...


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[Assistant] Uh, the robot in the Mandalorian. Yes. And then there was another robot in the Mandalorian that was voiced by a comedian. Oh, IG-88 was Taika Waititi. Yup. Or IG-11.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I don't care. I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me.


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[Assistant] Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand. Is that- is that it?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I remember my friend showing it to me. God, that was so long ago.


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[Assistant] Oh, I get it, cause these little guys are ninjas, so it's like rubber ninja world. Oh, yeah. What do the numbers mean? I think it's how many people have beaten it. Ah. I would assume so.


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[Assistant] If you're in the world mode, you have to do it in order, but you can just go to his account and play each one.


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[Assistant] Oh, this is silly. Oh. Woah.


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[Assistant] I was like, now is the time to jump on him. Now is exactly not the time to jump on him. This is it! Aww. Oh man, freakin' chain balls, yo! Oh, I can use the chain balls to get the- Chain balls, yo! Dude, I can use the chain balls. FU-


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[Assistant] I can use the chain balls- To die! Yes, of course. That much is a given. However, I can use the chain balls to bust into the mushrooms on the sides.


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[Assistant] That's so tense. It's so tense, every shot.


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[Assistant] Ugh, man. I loved that sh- Dude, I'm just gonna say man, I loved that shit when I was a kid.


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[Assistant] What, Phantom Menace? I saw Phantom Menace like nine times in theaters. Like I'm not joking. I was- I was too old for it. Dude.


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[Assistant] Why would an organization called the Trade Federation be blockading trade?


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[Assistant] If I- If I jump with the spin jump, I'm safer. If I- If I jump with the spin jump, I'm safer.


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[Assistant] Please lose. Please die. Oh god I have a bad feeling about this.


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[Assistant] We were just a little community of musicians, just writing music, having a purpose.


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[Assistant] It's like the Adam Sandler effect, where it's just like, eh, I wanna go to Hawaii with all my friends and have it be paid. Grown Ups 3.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you just have to- yeah. There's a little hitbox on either side of the thing that you can get him at. I've been gettin' it- mmm.


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[Assistant] Gosh. Still one of my favorite moments. So many beautiful memories. You know, and with the, with the existence of Grump Out, that is youtube.com slash grump out, go subscribe today. Uhm, it is our, it is our personally curated clip channel. Uhm, uh,


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[Assistant] With the- with the advent of Grump Out is definitely like- I've- I've been- I gotta say, I've been watching Game Grumps more.


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[Assistant] Just because it's been like, oh, yo, I wanna hear this bit, you know, like, that's fun.


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[Assistant] Got it. I just need to be wise about it, you know? I can't be a wise cracker about it, I just gotta be straight up wise.


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[Assistant] That straight up was just like- Oh man.


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[Assistant] It wasn't the brain one. Thank god. I personally asked. They don't have to do that anymore apparently.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but like, god, you have no idea how much I was dreading the brain one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's that's what I don't understand if people were like I'm sick I gotta like Have a cold or I don't know I'm scared and it's like how did you get sick? What have you been doing other than the thing that you've been doing every day? Yeah, like that doesn't


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[Assistant] Well, I think I need to allow the bi- uh oh. Oh, there we go. I think I need to allow the... the large one...


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[Assistant] To, yeaah, to not die. There we go. Oh!


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[Assistant] Boingy, boingy, ahhh.


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[Assistant] Remember when Obama shot the basketball in the hoop and he was like...


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[Assistant] There's like a clip of him. He was part of, he was part of the, the like...


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[Assistant] Oh, that's true. Yeah. You downgrade. From Doki Doki to Smoky Di- Oh, whatever. Yeah, to Choky Smoky. To Okie Dokie, you know what I'm saying? Alright. No, no, no, keep going. Oh.


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[Assistant] Wha- wha- wha- what am I doing the- oh. The arrow. If I touch the arrow.


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[Assistant] That's what it is! That's what it is! Oh, you're fucking brilliant. You're brilliant.


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[Assistant] No I'm not, you are. You're breathtaking. Ye-ohhh. That's what Keanu Reeves said.


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[Assistant] I love how, I love how he's like too zen to do Bill and Ted anymore. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] And it's like, you know, the other guy, Alex Winter. Alex Winter. He's like, just right back into it. Right. But Keanu Reeves has like, been through a lot, and played a lot of like, very dramatic characters since. Sure. So he's very like, zen, and he's very like, woah. And it's like,


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[Assistant] Huuh, total anymore, you know? Interesting. Uhm, so it's a pretty, it's a pretty interesting dynamic we got there.


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[Assistant] Fuck! What am I screwing up here? How am I messing up the timing on this?


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[Assistant] I hate it! I hate you! I'm just talking to myself here.


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's rhetorical. You know how I am, I'm artistic.


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[Assistant] Deeply artistic. I fuckin', I have so many, uh, interpretations. Try picking it up now. But, but...


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[Assistant] Yeah, fuck. It did work, yes, it's fine. Yeah, you solved it. You solved everything. Oh man.


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[Assistant] What? Oh, that doesn't seem right. Oh. Hey! This works too! Is that alright? Oh, there we go, huh? How about that?


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[Assistant] This is bullshit. This is, this is bullshit. Alright. One more try, one more try this episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, here we go.


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[Assistant] Why, it's Polly Milford. But you, you've grown up.


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[Assistant] Jim McMahon was the easy rider of quarterbacks. He went out of his way to take the road less traveled, and usually did so on his motorbike. The Rebel was in him, and so was the knack for winning. Big Man took equal pleasure in defying convention and blitzes. You could force him into white tie and tails, but he'd probably wear high tops with them.


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[Assistant] For 15 NFL seasons, the first seven was Chicago. Jim McMahon played quarterback with a linebackers mentality. What diminished his game were injuries, but reduced his status among the league's old guard was a refusal to douse his fires of rebellion.


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[Assistant] During the 1985 playoffs, NFL commissioner Pete Rosell reprimanded McMahon.


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[Assistant] Three days before the game, the media shifted its focus once more, from McMahon's tail to his mouth. This time, however, it was no laughing matter.


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[Assistant] Other times the stories were true, as McMahon said plenty to fuel his opponents.


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[Assistant] Born August 21st, 1959 in blue collar Jersey City across the river from Manhattan, Jim was the second of six children to Roberta and James McMahon. When he was three, the family moved to San Jose. At six, a freak accident left him permanently impaired.


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[Assistant] If young Jim had it tough on the outside, life was no less a challenge in the McMahon household, where every dollar counted.


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[Assistant] While his father nurtured Jim's athletic talents, his mother held his behavior to an equally high standard, even if it meant a ban on sports.


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[Assistant] McMahon's success in football and baseball at Roy High School landed him a scholarship to Brigham Young in 1977. Once on campus, however, the freewheeling quarterback was out of his element.


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[Assistant] Knowing the structure at BYU was one thing. Accepting it was another. Jim McMahon's college career was marked by a volatile mix of high moments on the field, high times off it, and a refined sense of social rebellion.


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[Assistant] For all the ill feeling toward McMahon, there was no denying his exceptional talent. And midway through his sophomore season in 1978, he became the starting quarterback.


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[Assistant] Named all-conference, McMahon led BYU to a holiday bowl bid. But a knee injury before the regular season finale with UNLV led to a serious division between the fiery quarterback and his coach, Lovell Edwards.


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[Assistant] With McMahon coming off the bench, BYU suffered a loss to Navy in the first holiday bowl.


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[Assistant] He was hit with more frustration when off-season knee surgery forced him to redshirt the next year.


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[Assistant] Then in 1980, with two years of eligibility remaining, McMahon regained control of the Cougars and continued his march to a different drummer.


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[Assistant] McMahon's reckless abandon when applied on the field engendered fear in the opposition. He passed for 47 touchdowns and 4,500 yards as the Cougars roared back to the Holiday Bowl. At halftime, a dejected BYU team trailed SMU 29-13.


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[Assistant] Down 45-39, a blocked punt gave VYU the ball at the SMU 41 with 18 seconds left. After throwing two incompletions, McMahon sucked it up and pulled a play straight out of his sandlot days.


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[Assistant] Mcmahon's Hail Mary capped a 446 yard, four touchdown performance with 203 of those yards coming after he took the reins from his coach. The Cougars finished 12 and one and were ranked 12th.


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[Assistant] In his All-American senior year, he again led the nation in passing. Meanwhile, McMahon's equally active off-field activities were racking up points on the debit side. Following a second consecutive holiday bowl victory in 1981, he was presented with a laundry list of complaints.


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[Assistant] In McMahon's first two seasons, the Bears failed to break 500 as Ditka's old school strategy relied on the legs of Walter Payton rather than the arm of McMahon.


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[Assistant] The inevitable happened against the Raiders in 1984.


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[Assistant] With their gutsy leader sideline, the Bears fell short of their first Super Bowl, shut out by the 49ers for the 1984 NFC Championship. After starting the first two games of the next season, McMahon was back on the bench with another injury. Trailing the Vikings 17-9, he shrugged off the pain and set the tone for the season.


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[Assistant] After the 15-1 Bears powered past the Giants and Rams in the playoffs, McMahon landed in New Orleans with the force of a hurricane.


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[Assistant] As McMahon's nightly parade through the Big Easy approached game time, the question of headbands resurfaced as the national media wondered whether its favorite rebel would defy Roselle's ban on forehead advertising.


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[Assistant] In 1986, in an autobiography entitled McMahon, the quarterback fired a scatter gun barrage at his parents, BYU's administration, his teammates, his coach, and Bears management.


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[Assistant] With an off-injured McMahon on his way to playing just six games in 1986, the Bears signed Doug Flutie as insurance.


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[Assistant] defense, the Bears went 14 and two and won their third straight division title. But with flutie at quarterback, Chicago suffered a stunning home playoff loss to Washington.


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[Assistant] McMahon had missed 23 games due to injury over his first five seasons. The reckless abandoned style was catching up with him. And as the injuries mounted, some within ranks, namely defensive tackle Dan Hampton, turned on him.


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[Assistant] Losing home playoff games again in 1987 and 88, the Bears' emerging dynasty was over before McMahon turned 30.


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[Assistant] With San Diego, McMahon struggled in 1989, throwing as many interceptions as touchdown passes.


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[Assistant] After one season in San Diego, McMahon bounced through the league. Eagles, Vikings, Cardinals, Browns and Packers mostly as a backup.


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[Assistant] McMahon retired after the 1996 season with a second Super Bowl ring, having been Brett Favre's backup.


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[Assistant] After 15 injury-plagued campaigns, he went home to his wife Nancy and their four children.


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[Assistant] Jim McMahon had the gift. Though he never threw more than 15 touchdown passes in a season, he won 69% of his NFL starts. Often it was because he could make it up as he went along.


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[Assistant] He wasn't a fan of film sessions and even less of practices. What he wanted to do was play. Football, preferably, but if he had another game, well, easy rider was always game. For Sports Century, I'm Chris Fowler.


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[Assistant] Boston tea parties can sometimes be surprising.


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[Assistant] Tom says Marsha is a wonderful girl. I guess there'll be a wedding by Christmas.


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[Assistant] I remember t-shirts that he wore. One had a blown up condom.


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[Assistant] Well, it was really a tribute to one of his friends who...


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[Assistant] And that was the arrival of Jim McMahon with the Chicago Bears.


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[Assistant] I think that McMahon reminded George Hallis of a young punk named George Hallis.


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[Assistant] Dan Hampton was the Jim McMahon, uh, of the defense.


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[Assistant] He was loud and brash, and while some of those guys on the defensive line just did their work and were quiet about it, Dan always spoke out.


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[Assistant] He did do something wrong, and we forgave him, said Joe.


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[Assistant] But we all promised not to say a word to anyone.


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[Assistant] He must not hide behind a promise from you soft-hearted girls, said the old gentleman. Tell me, Joe. I can't, sir, because mother has ordered me not to, said Joe. And if I tell you, it will make trouble for someone else, not Laurie. This seemed to calm the old man. Then I'll forgive him, he said after a moment.


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[Assistant] Just a bit quick to be angry with him sometimes.


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[Assistant] Well, I know it's going to be one of those nights, but Universal Mattress and United Furniture have merged. They're reshuffling their entire insurance account. Now, the tough man to crack is Kafka of Universal Mattress. I've done a little detective work. He's Hungarian. As a matter of fact, they're all Hungarian. So, so let's give the dinner a kind of Hungarian touch, eh?


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[Assistant] I'm going to get that insurance account if I have to stuff that Hungarian like one of his own mattresses. Oh, and to make him feel really at home, our foreign division manager tipped me off. Just before they start to eat, you say, eggish, eggish, eggish, eggish. It means to your health or something like that. Eggish.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm sorry. Tell me, are you with Universal Mattress or United Furniture? I'm not with anything. Oh, playing both sides, huh? Well, it's not such a bad idea. Say, tell me, how do you feel about Mr. Kafka? Indifferent.


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[Assistant] Well, I can tell you nobody's gonna put anything over on him. He's pretty smart. I think it's very clever that they've merged. Merge your will out, won't it?


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[Assistant] Sure, of course. The customer's always right. Anything else in the room you'd like to change? Lots. Well, I think we're going to have a very enjoyable evening. I'll let you in on a little secret. We've got goulash. Goulash? Yea, goulash. Scrambled eggs for me. Only a suggestion. Uhm, would you forgive me? I must dress.


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[Assistant] I've gone to all this trouble to get up a special Hungarian evening for the president of Universal Mattress. And you invite this piano player. You should know better. Musicians and mattresses don't mix.


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[Assistant] Listen, I know I'm just a poor, ignorant insurance dope and I don't know anything about Stravinsky. But we've been married for six years and I think I've made you a pretty good husband.


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[Assistant] And, uh, those little notes of music, what do they mean?


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[Assistant] Oh, sure. And the clock at twelve fifteen?


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[Assistant] Just a moment. Now look here. Mrs. Brown is interested in another man.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I have a dinner appointment with old C.K. Higgins at his club. How can I sell insurance with this in my mind? It's a big deal too.


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[Assistant] Hello? Hello, Johns. I'm still selling. You were right. It needed an entirely new slant. I think I've got a new one.


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[Assistant] And along comes a guy like you and breaks everything up just because you've nothing else to do.


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[Assistant] Oh, yes, she does. I've seen it with my own eyes. Well, there's only one thing left for me to do.


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[Assistant] Hello. This is Lawrence Baker. I want to reserve a room for tonight. I'll be right over. Thanks.


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[Assistant] Mary Logan is a correspondent? Well, I think I can do better than that. After everything's straightened out, I think I'll take a trip to South America.


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[Assistant] Snoogy. Calling that Snoogy.


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[Assistant] Well no, I'm sure you took it with you when we left for the Monte Carlo. Wait a minute.


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[Assistant] Oh, madam has changed her mind. She gets a little tired of marriage and she walks out just like that. What does she care if she makes a fool of her husband or how much she hurts him?


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[Assistant] First you're trying to mess up my life, now you want to spoil that girl's Sunday. Sally doesn't get every day off, you know. Sally works hard.


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[Assistant] She hasn't time to go to crazy art galleries, play around with second-rate musicians, or go to psychoanalysts. She hasn't a husband to pay for her complexes. Sally's a mighty fine girl, much finer than your Mr. Sebastian. She doesn't wear your shirts either.


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[Assistant] Oh, skip it. Here. You promised to love, honor, and obey. And here. That's the first time we met.


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[Assistant] But you were a fine girl. I didn't bore you with my insurance then. You listened to everything. You wanted to know everything about me and my work. You wanted to help.


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[Assistant] Well, you don't deserve it, but I'll see what I can do.


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[Assistant] Once upon a time there was a charming country house in which lived a very happily married couple.


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[Assistant] Roland had mentioned several problems that needed to be solved.


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[Assistant] The lack of an air defense network was as big of an issue as the transportation problem. The importance of achieving air supremacy stuck in his head.


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[Assistant] He had learned this lesson from the history of the wars in his previous world.


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[Assistant] An army who had the aerial advantage was always able to launch an attack from any point at any time and before the invention of the radar, no one on the ground was able to detect enemies coming from the vast sky, let alone defeat them.


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[Assistant] Bearing that in mind, he planned to enhance his army's air defense capabilities as soon as possible.


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[Assistant] Otherwise, he would never be able to build an artillery position near the tequila ruins.


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[Assistant] He guessed that after Lorders escaped from their pursuit, the demons had probably had flown to the border of the western region several times to investigate, and they would have likely concluded that most of the residents of Neverwinter were common people.


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[Assistant] That was why they thought they could repeat the old trick that they had used in the first battle of Divine Will.


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[Assistant] If Sylvie had not taken over the scouting job, the Frontier Guards would not have been able to detect the approaching demons until they came near the city wall.


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[Assistant] The battle on the city wall had highlighted what was lacking in the current technology and proven that the sky had already become the biggest vulnerability in Neverwinter's defensive line.


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[Assistant] After all, the people in this era could hardly imagine aerial forces, let alone countermeasures for aerial attacks.


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[Assistant] Roland had been pondering over the air defense problem ever since the moment he had seen the demons with their flying devil beasts. But he had never expected them to come to the city so early.


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[Assistant] He had not started the development of air defense weapons yet or even finished building the impassable mountain ground defense line and the telephone network.


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[Assistant] The fact that the Frontier Guards had not been able to shoot down any Demon or Devil Beast during the earlier incident did not surprise him at all.


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[Assistant] It had been his decision to use revolving rifles to fill up the blind zones of the machine guns and the cannons for now, and they had proven to be quite effective in suppressing enemies on the ground.


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[Assistant] However, resulting from the low pressure in the bore, a revolving rifle had a relatively short range and a low accuracy, which became a very serious defect against airborne enemies.


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[Assistant] Furthermore, its hit rate was low and its firepower was limited, since each of its cartridges could only contain five bullets.


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[Assistant] Last but not least, it had no suitable tripod or aiming tool for targets in the sky.


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[Assistant] With these defects, it could hardly serve as an ideal ground to air weapon.


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[Assistant] He felt that he had better begin to replace all the revolving rifles with bolt rifles.


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[Assistant] It was already part of his plan, but Anna was unable to mass produce that many parts that were necessary for the large-scale production of the bolt rifles.


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[Assistant] Given that, he had only equipped the sniper team with bolt rifles for now.


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[Assistant] Fortunately, the workers had started to get familiar with the operation of the new machine tool which was put into use recently, and they were already able to assemble rifles on their own.


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[Assistant] Once they could improve their work efficiency and guarantee the quality of the products, the output of bolt rifles would be substantially increased.


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[Assistant] Though bolt rifles could shoot farther and more precisely than revolving rifles, they could hardly serve as ground-to-air weapons.


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[Assistant] Their rate of fire was even lower than the revolving rifles, and their tracer ammunition, which had a complex structure, was not easy to manufacture, especially when the ammunition production line was already working at its full capacity.


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[Assistant] Even if he began to focus on tackling the key problems for the mass production of bolt rifles now, he would need several months to achieve this goal.


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[Assistant] By the time he succeeded, the months of demons would already be over.


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[Assistant] Under these circumstances, he decided to create new ground-to-air firearms as the primary air defense weapons and used the bolt rifles to assist these new weapons in a fight.


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[Assistant] Based on the existing technologies, he was not able to equip his army with any kind of high-tech fire control system, so his only choice was to create a hail of bullets to stop the enemies in the sky.


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[Assistant] The easiest way of achieving this effect was to convert some of the Mark 1 type heavy machine guns into anti-aircraft machine guns, which had been a tried and tested solution in the modern world's history and would not increase the burden on the manufacturing and logistics sectors.


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[Assistant] A Mark 1 type H&G equipped with an aiming tool and an adjustable tripod would be able to shoot low flying enemies out of the sky.


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[Assistant] In any case, his Mark 1 type heavy machine guns were easy to convert, as he had planned for the air defense usage in advance and had equipped them with air-cooled barrels instead of a water-cooled casing when designing these machine guns.


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[Assistant] A heavy machine gun was well suited for hitting long range targets, while also having a remarkably high hit rate at shorter ranges.


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[Assistant] It fired its shells extremely fast, and thus had overwhelming firepower.


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[Assistant] With these features, they could effectively suppress the spear-throwing mad demons who rode the flying devil beasts.


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[Assistant] If the city wall had been equipped with two such converted Mark 1 type machine guns before the previous skirmish, the outcome would have been very different.


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[Assistant] With this plan in mind, after he concluded the meeting, he immediately headed for the arithmetic academy instead of returning to his office.


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[Assistant] This new academy was located to the south of the castle district, next to the chemistry laboratory.


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[Assistant] Most of the researchers working in the Academy were the former Astrology Association members.


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[Assistant] Being venerated as a school of sages, it had recently been attracting quite a lot of the talented citizens who had just completed their primary schooling.


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[Assistant] It received almost 20% more job applications than the Alchemist Workshop next door.


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[Assistant] Roland speculated that the frequent explosions and accidents in the lab might also have played a part in discouraging prospective job applicants.


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[Assistant] A astrologer of dispersion star welcomed him in the main hall.


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[Assistant] After bowing to the king, the chief astrologer began heaping praise upon the profoundness and beauty of mathematics. Your majesty, please forgive me for nagging you.


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[Assistant] That book you gave me, Analytical Geometry, must the deities work.


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[Assistant] I had never imagined that I'd be able to see the world so clearly with my mind instead of my eyes.


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[Assistant] Even if I were to one day become dim-sided from old age and lose the ability to observe the starry sky, I would still be able to describe the world just as clearly as before.


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[Assistant] For example, now I can even describe your wavy hair, your clothes, and even your boots using numbers and symbols.


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[Assistant] Fearing that he would go on and on, Roland interrupted him. Have you mastered all the knowledge in the book?


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[Assistant] I can't say I've mastered all of it, but I did master most of it. Dispersion Star calmed himself down and continued.


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[Assistant] In the past six months, apart from the calculation missions you gave us, we've been working on a huge project.


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[Assistant] We recorded the star's celestial coordinates in our previous observation results in the mathematical language.


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[Assistant] Now we can be sure that the star of extinction, the bloody moon in your words, always stays at the same spot in the sky. It doesn't move at all.


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[Assistant] Roland had once paid close attention to the Bloody Moon, whose coming was said to herald the beginning of the Battle of Divine Will.


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[Assistant] Now that the demons had already begun to take action, he no longer had any interest in the star. I've come to give you a new mission. You'd better finish it as soon as possible. He said explicitly. It's not a pure math problem like the previous missions. You need to solve a practical problem for the first army. Do you mean creating something like the cannons firing table?


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[Assistant] It's more complicated than that. Roland shook his head and said,


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[Assistant] You need to work with the craftsman to produce a tool which can predict the movement of a target in the sky. You'll need two equations to describe this kind of movement.


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[Assistant] One describes the horizontal displacement of the target, and the other describes the vertical displacement.


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[Assistant] I have a general idea of the design, but you have to determine the specific parameters through more detailed measurement and calculation.


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[Assistant] What Roland wanted was an aiming tool for the new ground-to-air machine guns that could determine a target's distance and forward direction in the sky.


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[Assistant] With these parameters, a soldier could adjust the weapon to get the proper high angle and advanced angle, and then riddle the flying enemy with bullets.


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[Assistant] This aiming tool was a manually operated mechanical device rather than a piece of electronic equipment. So all that the shooter needed to operate this weapon would be an accurate firing table and some basic knowledge of mathematics and geometry.


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[Assistant] The anti-aircraft machine guns were just the first step to enhancing Neverwinter's air defense capabilities.


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[Assistant] The most effective way to protect the city's airspace was still building a functional air force.


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[Assistant] Back in the days when the Union had ruled the human world, witches had guarded the skies.


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[Assistant] A small number of witches endowed with a flying ability, as well as a few extraordinary swearing stones of flight, had performed this air defense task.


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[Assistant] They had been recognized as the strongest warriors of the Union, and thus their status had been higher than that of the other combat witches in the Blessed Army.


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[Assistant] According to Pasha, throughout the history of the Union, all the three chiefs had always been former members of this air defense troop.


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[Assistant] As for the common people who did not have the talent to use magic power or the magic stones, the only solution was to create a kind of machine which could serve as their wings.


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[Assistant] When that happened, they would be able to get rid of the constraints of gravity and fly up into the sky.


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[Assistant] In order to dominate the battle in the air, Neverwinter had to build up its own air forces.


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[Assistant] To achieve that goal, Roland needed to create airplanes.


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[Assistant] This was no easy job, as it involved tackling many technical problems at the same time.


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[Assistant] He was not familiar with aircraft design, and even the structure of a biplane from World War I was complicated enough to give him a headache.


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[Assistant] He was able to get away with the simplified power transmission systems and braking systems of the train for the initial prototype.


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[Assistant] However, the flight control surfaces of a plane could not be half-assed and had a much lower tolerance for error.


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[Assistant] More importantly, he had never flown a plane and thus had no idea whether the mechanical devices he created would work or not.


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[Assistant] Fortunately, he could choose another kind of aircraft, the glider.


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[Assistant] Wendy, who was able to sense wind direction and wind power accurately, could work as his test pilot.


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[Assistant] With the help of Lightning and Maggie, who could ensure Wendy's safety, he believed he would be able to write a flight manual for the operation of the gliders without risking anyone's life. Your Majesty.


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[Assistant] Astrologer of dispersion star spoke, interrupting Roland's thoughts. I understand what you mean.


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[Assistant] The Arithmetic Academy will make this aiming tool for you as soon as possible. Good. Roland nodded in satisfaction.


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[Assistant] He was happy to be able to talk to this astrologer who could immediately understand his intentions.


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[Assistant] He felt that it had really been a wise decision to bring the whole astrology association to the western region.


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[Assistant] As a school of sages, the astrology association also required hands-on practical ability just as the alchemists did.


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[Assistant] The astrologers were not only excellent at mathematics, but also good with their hands.


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[Assistant] Since no blacksmith knew how to make a telescope, they usually designed and assembled the telescope parts by themselves.


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[Assistant] Just as Roland was about to leave, he noticed that a astrologer of dispersion star still seemed to have something to say. Is there anything else? Roland asked. Here's a thing I can't figure out, your majesty.


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[Assistant] The scholar cleared this throat by coughing several times.


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[Assistant] I don't understand why there's the word intermediate on the cover of the book, analytic geometry, and on every cover of the mathematics books you gave me. Rollin' chuckled. That's the thing you wanna ask?


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[Assistant] Please forgive me for being so bold, if it's a thing can't be disclosed.


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[Assistant] Different from Kyle Cichy, Dispersion Star had stayed in the Old King's City since his birth.


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[Assistant] He had served several kings and was always on his best behavior.


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[Assistant] However, Roland could tell from his eyes that he was just as curious as the Chief Alchemist.


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[Assistant] Roland could not help but smile while recalling that he had used intermediate chemistry to lure Kyle into working for Neverwinter.


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[Assistant] In order to get his hands on the book, Kyle had recruited students, given lectures, and even taken up the post of Minister of Chemical Industry.


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[Assistant] Nevertheless, Roland felt that he would not need to repeat this carrot and stick trick on Dispersion Star.


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[Assistant] He explained plainly, it's because there's a book called Advanced Mathematics. It's not just about geometry or arithmetics. It's advanced mathematical theory.


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[Assistant] You can imagine the primary and intermediate books as the trunk of a tree and advanced mathematics as the top of the tree.


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[Assistant] But this book is much harder to understand so it has another name. What might that be?


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[Assistant] Quitting math for dummies, Roland answered with his hands laid out in a shrug.


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[Assistant] Obviously, dispersion star did not understand Roland's implication.


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[Assistant] He stared blankly at the king, and then he said, Your, your majesty.


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[Assistant] I'll never give up, even if I have to spend the rest of my life to grasp the theory. Could you please show me?


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[Assistant] Seeing the sincere look on the scholar's face, Roland somehow felt a little embarrassed about himself, since he had regularly dozed off in his advanced mathematics class. He cleared his throat and said, of course.


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[Assistant] After that, Roland left the mathematics academy for the backyard of the North Slope Mountain.


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[Assistant] Apart from the anti-aircraft machine guns, he intended to make some special weapons for the God's punishment witches.


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[Assistant] After having spent several months together, he was firmly convinced about the Tequila survivor's burning desire to wreak havoc upon the demons.


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[Assistant] Neverwinter had to fight the demons to survive, but the tequila witches just wanted revenge.


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[Assistant] In the hearts of the ancient witches, the demons had been the source of their pains for the past hundreds of years, the enemies who had killed their families and friends, and the nightmare they longed to get rid of.


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[Assistant] Roland felt that it would be a complete waste for these mighty warriors to use only swords and spears to fight the demons.


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[Assistant] He also noticed that they were able to fight with weapons that were too heavy to carry for conventional soldiers.


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[Assistant] This meant that he could equip them with fiercer firearms and turn them into high mobility, heavy battle units.


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[Assistant] His initial plan was to design a portable Mark I type HMG for the God's Punishment Witches, whose ammo box could be carried in their backpacks.


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[Assistant] With these weapons, the god's punishment witches would become mobile fortresses.


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[Assistant] Once they encountered a pack of demons, they could immediately turn them into Swiss cheese. However, now he had changed his mind.


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[Assistant] Some heavy machine guns were going to be converted into anti-aircraft machine guns, and a new variant of the Mark 1 guns would soon begin production on a large scale.


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[Assistant] In the near future, the bullet consumption speed would be incredibly fast. But based on the current efficiency of Neverwinter's bullet production, he could not ensure the supply of ammunition for so many guns.


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[Assistant] Under such circumstances, even if he were to manufacture 300 guns for the God's punishment witches, they would not get enough bullets to be able to achieve the target effect of a walking fortress to solve this problem. He needed to create a powerful and simple weapon that used fewer bullets while also being easy to maintain. He quickly sketched the outline of the new weapon on paper.


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[Assistant] It was a Grapeshot gun, a gas-operated weapon with a 40mm caliber.


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[Assistant] The prominent advantage of a grape shotgun was its wide killing range and the long distance shots resulting from the enlarged caliber.


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[Assistant] It shot automatically and its shooter did not have to be very accurate.


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[Assistant] It could help the revolving rifles and bolt rifles in suppressing the enemies who managed to break through the cannon blockade line. It could also be adopted in a sneak attack.


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[Assistant] In such a battle, the grapeshot gun shooter could take the initiative to approach the target.


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[Assistant] Judging from the demon's fighting methods in the Second Battle of Divine Will, they were still in the era of cold weapons.


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[Assistant] In a direct encounter, they usually fought hand to hand instead of throwing spears.


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[Assistant] Given that, Roland was confident that the god's punishment witches equipped with automatic grapeshot guns would be able to give them hell in a close combat fight.


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[Assistant] Five days later, Sylvie spotted some devil beasts again. The number of enemies had doubled this time.


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[Assistant] Twelve Devil Beasts, looking like a dark cloud in the sky, were flying towards Neverwinter.


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[Assistant] Roland had added two short telephone lines connecting his office with the command center of the Neverwinter Garrison and the Tequila Survivors so that both stations could instantly contact him if the need arises.


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[Assistant] Therefore, the castle, the camp of the first army, and the third border city received the news almost at the same time. This happened too soon. Pasha was a little doubtful.


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[Assistant] Based on our experience, we should have had half a month or even a month before the demons would launch their second attack, especially for a city like Neverwinter since they can't arrive in one day. Why? Roland asked. Because they need time to let the panic spread.


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[Assistant] By that time, no matter how the lord of the city tries to calm his subjects, it will be all for naught.


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[Assistant] The second attack would crush the people's confidence and snuff out any remaining hope.


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[Assistant] In an ancient city, people were too busy working everyday just to feed themselves everyday.


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[Assistant] In such a disconnected society, incomparable to the one where Roland came from, five days were only long enough for the news to spread among the rats and the patrons of a few taverns.


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[Assistant] Somehow, the old rumor seemed a bit more credible to Roland now.


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[Assistant] After all, the demon's strategy was so similar to the human's.


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[Assistant] They had only managed to add the new aiming tool on the Mark 1 HMG recently. In the machine gun squad, they hastily assembled only had one trial, with balloons as the targets.


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[Assistant] The two hadn't even finished arguing before Nightingale picked them both, one girl in each arm, and went out of the meeting room.


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[Assistant] I'll leave the defense task of the city wall to the witches of the sleeping island, Roland said to Tilly. Tilly answered without hesitation. They'll do their best. Good.


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[Assistant] Then I shall stand by the phone and wait for your good news, Roland said, and then commanded word by word, move. Now, Pasha did not speak until Roland was alone in the room. Her voice sounded serious. Are you serious about this?


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[Assistant] The demons would change their mind once they spot so many witches, and they won't see Neverwinter as a city ruled by the common person, but by witches.


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[Assistant] They would then have completely different tactics in store for us. I know. You've already warned me about that. Roll and exhale softly.


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[Assistant] The Ancient Witch had told him about her concern when they made the defense plan.


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[Assistant] In her opinion, if the demons thought Neverwinter was a holy city under the Dominion of the Union, they would undoubtedly strengthen their defenses and attack with increasing aggression in the coming battles.


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[Assistant] In other words, they would start to view Neverwinter as an even opponent.


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[Assistant] The demons only took the witches seriously and completely disregarded the common people.


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[Assistant] I thought, humans would prefer to avoid a war like this. They'll come sooner or later, right?


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[Assistant] Roland arose and walked up to the French window and looked off into the direction of the border.


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[Assistant] Since that's the case, it's better to fight a battle we have prepared for instead of heading mindlessly to war.


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[Assistant] The first army is made up of men who used to be common hunters, miners, and farmers, and the army was not exceptionally powerful in the beginning.


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[Assistant] Now that they have to face an enemy that is not in the least like the ones they faced before, every chance of confrontation would help them gain experience and prepare them for the battle of divine will.


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[Assistant] The so-called elite soldiers are simply those who have survived several times on the edge of life and death. I must say that your resolve has moved me. Alathia whisked her tentacles. You're better than most of the common people just from this point.


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[Assistant] There are stories in the dream world telling of tales where powerful entities, whether they be ancient gods or colossal dragons, underestimated the might of the humans and ended up being slaughtered by mere 40 ordinary people. I have never heard of such a legend, but they're not entirely false.


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[Assistant] I dare say that as technology advance, we will only need 25 common people to do the same job. Roll and shrug.


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[Assistant] Then he turned around and said seriously, Furthermore, we can mislead the demons by letting them believe that Neverwinter is a city ruled by the Union.


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[Assistant] They will conclude that the bizarre attacks they're about to suffer are from the witch's abilities and ignore the most important point. Neverwinter is neither a city ruled by a common lord nor one under the Union's rule.


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[Assistant] It is as an industrialized city that has managed to merge the essence of both.


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[Assistant] Fishball widen his eyes and stare unblinkingly at the grassland to the north so as not to miss any sign of the enemies.


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[Assistant] He had heard of the existence of the demons from his majesty a year ago, but the first time he saw what they looked like was during the incident five days ago.


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[Assistant] When he witnessed the scene of the enemy's bone spears piercing through his fellow soldier's chests, Fishball felt the dread he had not felt for a long time flood back over him. No human beings could attack like that.


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[Assistant] Even the demonic beasts could not threaten the city wall with that huge distance between them and the wall.


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[Assistant] For the first time since he joined the army, he met an enemy whose range of attack was comparable to that of the flintlocks.


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[Assistant] However, he failed to strike back due to the limited angle range of his weapon, which made him a conspicuous target to the enemies if he had held his ground on the wall. At that moment, Fishball wanted to run away. But he stayed his ground.


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[Assistant] It was. At first, his trained reflexes kicking in that prevented him from fleeing. But then, a strong feeling of fury and detestation flooded over him.


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[Assistant] He was furious about the previous deaths of his companions and his powerlessness.


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[Assistant] He used to be a wimp that was known for his cowardly nature to people in the old border town.


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[Assistant] People laughed at him wherever he went and for a time, he nearly believed that he was a real coward.


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[Assistant] But that all changed the day Vanner had tricked him to join the then new militia with two eggs.


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[Assistant] In the first confrontation with the demonic beasts on the wall, he was so scared that he peed his pants. But ever since he returned from the wall that day, no one had laughed at him anymore.


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[Assistant] Now, Vanner was already promoted to the head of artillery battalion, yet he was merely transferred from the flintlock squad to the machine gun squad and became a squad captain.


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[Assistant] Fishball had neither gripe nor jealousy, for he knew that Vanner was much more capable than him.


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[Assistant] Vanner even had guts to speak in front of his majesty, and that was something he would never dare do.


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[Assistant] But that did not mean that he did not want to be a better person.


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[Assistant] Ever since he decided to serve his majesty, he had witnessed things far beyond his imagination.


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[Assistant] He had traveled on a concrete ship that could make its way upstream without sails, and he had attacked the noble's capital city.


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[Assistant] He had also helped defeat the arrogant Church of Hermes and claimed the desert of the south and Grey Castle for his king. He had already seen so many things. So why should he be afraid of the demons? Suddenly the observer shouted, Attention! Suspicious targets spotted at 10 o'clock.


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[Assistant] In the same instant, Fishball also noticed some indistinct black spots on the horizon.


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[Assistant] He pulled off the rifle bolt of the Mark 1 and raised its muzzle towards the sky.


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[Assistant] No one knew that he was still ashamed of what had happened five days ago.


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[Assistant] Only the blood of the enemies could help him with this disgraceful memory away.


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[Assistant] The observers of the different squads took turns watching their targets through the telescope, giving warnings continuously.


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[Assistant] Fishball's eyes were glued to the second group of enemies that appeared in the shooting area he was assigned to.


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[Assistant] The demons in his field of vision were tiny as the leaves flying in the wind, and only when the devil beast flapped its wings could they tell the difference between them and regular birds.


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[Assistant] Having learned by heart the firing procedures, Fishball placed one of the demons in his aiming reticule and then adjusted the heading indicator of the aiming tool. The new aiming tool on top of the gun looked very odd.


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[Assistant] It contained two concentric rings. One was equipped with a Devil Beast model that could spin. The other consisted of several paratactic tiny holes that could rotate with the model.


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[Assistant] Fishball knew nothing about the principles behind this aiming tool, but he knew that since his majesty had designed it, it would be as fabulous as any of the other ingenious things the king had made.


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[Assistant] He spent a whole night memorizing every step he needed to go through before firing the weapon.


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[Assistant] The first step, he remembered, was to move the heading indicator, the Devil Beast model, to where it was parallel with the target.


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[Assistant] In a short amount of time, the enemy in the air is aligned with the tiny hole in the aiming ring.


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[Assistant] Right after that, he glanced at the model and shouted to his partner beside him, a quarter.


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[Assistant] That meant the area of the target to that of the model was 4 to 1, indicating that the demon was in the shooting range of the Mark 1 HMG.


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[Assistant] Lord Astrologer of the Dispersion Star, who assisted in training the squads, had hammered it into them that any distances judged by the naked eye were bound to result in inaccuracies. It could only serve as a rough estimate of the range to the enemy.


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[Assistant] To ensure maximum effectiveness of the Mark 1, it would be safer for them to round the distance up. That sounded easy enough for Fishball to understand.


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[Assistant] A premature spray from the Mark 1 would be guaranteed to hit the target while firing too late might just waste bullets.


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[Assistant] After making the call, Fishball only needed to wait for his partner to find the corresponding number on the shooting table before he would pull the trigger.


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[Assistant] It only took a few seconds to finish this procedure, but the process felt excruciatingly long to him.


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[Assistant] As this was happening, everything around Fishball seemed to slow down for him, and the shouting sounds of his fellow soldiers in the background started to fade away.


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[Assistant] For a moment, he even heard his own rapid heartbeats and heavy breathing clearly. He could feel a slight amount of moisture in his palms.


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[Assistant] He knew that the cowardly fish ball was still inside him somewhere. But that only helped him steal himself for what was to come.


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[Assistant] As the demons flew steadily towards the wall, they gradually rose, going for the same pattern they executed five days ago.


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[Assistant] Now that they were at least 800 or 900 meters away, they fully extended their wings so that their bodies were as stretched out as possible.


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[Assistant] This made them such thin targets that even marksmen of the sniper team would be able to guarantee a clean shot on them. But we are different, Fishball thought.


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[Assistant] The scholar had told him of many principles, most of which was beyond fishball's understanding. But he had remembered one point very clearly.


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[Assistant] Once the enemies are close enough to throw spears, you're free to aim and fire.


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[Assistant] But before they get in that range, you don't need to worry about hitting the enemies, but rather just send as many bullets as you can in their path and wait for them to fly into the bullets. At this moment, his squad mate behind him shouted,


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[Assistant] Fishball took a deep breath and raised the muzzle, placing the mad demon that he was aiming at in the fifth hole and pulled the trigger as hard as he could. Suddenly, a gush of flame flashed out of the muzzle.


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[Assistant] The sound of gunfire was ear piercing, and it seemed to have resumed the flow of time which had previously appeared to slow down.


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[Assistant] Almost simultaneously, the other squads had also started to open fire. The area atop the city wall instantly heated up. This all felt rather bizarre to fishball.


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[Assistant] The muzzle of the Mark 1 was not aimed at the demons, but a vacant space in front of them. No one knew if they would hit the target.


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[Assistant] All they could do was keep their fingers tightly on the trigger and pray for the best as the cartridge box was emptied one bullet after another. Fortunately, this did not last long.


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[Assistant] After three seconds or so, a flower of red bloomed among the group of demons at their twelve o'clock.


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[Assistant] Along with the explosion of red, Fishball could also see a half-broken wing and body parts flying everywhere.


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[Assistant] The devil beast that had been shot were jolted and spun in midair, like pieces of thin paper being crumpled up.


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[Assistant] It was only then that Fishball got a rough view of the demon's appearance.


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[Assistant] However, from the scattering limbs, he did not spot any body parts resembling those of the mad demons.


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[Assistant] This unlucky devil beast must have been one of the ones who were responsible for carrying the red mist canisters.


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[Assistant] Subsequently, two devil beasts swayed away midair and dropped down like stones.


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[Assistant] Fishball could not tell from their movement whether they had been urgently dodging the bullets or seriously injured.


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[Assistant] But they failed to recover their speed and smashed directly onto the grassland.


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[Assistant] They started to disperse and accelerate charging towards the wall without any sign of retreat.


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[Assistant] Fishball grabbed the gun handle tightly and kept adjusting the shooting direction. No, four fourths.


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[Assistant] The enemy in his vision was the same size as the model, meaning that the enemy was now within spear-chucking range.


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[Assistant] The soldiers armed with revolving rifles also joined and opened up at the approaching devil beasts.


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[Assistant] All the guns were blasting away, cracking continuously at the wall.


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[Assistant] For Devil Beasts were already shot down. However, ever since the enemies became aware of their attack and started to dodge the shots, few bullets succeeded in hitting them.


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[Assistant] At this moment, Fishball noticed a Devil Beast dart through the sky and dove towards him.


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[Assistant] As the deformed monster was snarling down at him from the air, he could faintly see that the mad demon onraised up a bone spear and aimed it at him.


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[Assistant] A piercing chill instantly rose from the soles of his feet, crept through his body and caused his hands to tremble involuntarily.


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[Assistant] Now that the demon in his vision was bigger than the model, he didn't have to estimate how far the demon was anymore, for this distance was short enough for the bullet fired by Mark Wan to maintain a perfectly straight trajectory through the air.


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[Assistant] All he needed to do now was to raise the muzzle, aim, and keep firing until the demon's body was riddled with bullets.


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[Assistant] But that spear would also pierce through his body without mercy. Flee or die.


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[Assistant] At the same instant, the barrel of the gun spat out flames of death toward the demon.


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[Assistant] The bullets released from the gun whistled toward the demon, tore through its muscles, shattered its bones and ricocheted in the demon's body before exiting the other side.


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[Assistant] The impact was so intense that its body swelled a little as its guts were smashed to smithereens.


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[Assistant] The mad demon threw the bone spear at the moment the bullets flew into him. Fishball had foreseen his ending when he pulled the trigger. But he did not let go of his finger.


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[Assistant] Just one meter away in front of Fish Ball, the shadow-like bone spear shattered as it flew into a semi-transparent barrier that had appeared out of nowhere. The barrier only shook a little, but otherwise remained intact.


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[Assistant] Fishball finally came to himself and realized that a short-haired and short witch had appeared on the battlements and blocked the spear with her incredible power. What are you shouting for? She let out a long breath and slowly withdrew her hands. Then she turned around and smiled at him. Of course you aren't.


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[Assistant] Sylvie, who was observing the battle, could finally breathe out a sigh of relief.


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[Assistant] The Mad Demon's first volley this time did not cause as much damage as compared with their previous attack.


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[Assistant] With the help of the witches of the sleeping island, the spears were either blocked or strangely missed their targets.


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[Assistant] The explosion forced the squad to cease fire temporarily, but none of the soldiers were fatally wounded.


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[Assistant] Nana would be able to heal them all as long as they held on until the end of the battle.


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[Assistant] The mad demons had to let their swollen arms recover before they could attack again, while the first army could just keep firing.


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[Assistant] The longer the demons stayed in one spot, the easier a target they became for the first army gunners.


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[Assistant] Sylvie's knew then that the enemy's defeat was inevitable. The demons seemed to sense that too.


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[Assistant] As a horn rang out, the surviving devil beasts scrambled to turn around and accelerated away towards the west.


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[Assistant] Compared to the evasive movements the Devil Beasts displayed when attacking, the beeline they made in the air after turning tails turned them into easy targets for the soldiers.


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[Assistant] The hail of bullets managed to snap off one escaping devil beast's wing.


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[Assistant] The beast then fell into the misty forest with its body bent in an odd angle.


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[Assistant] By now, there were only five flying devil beasts left, and only three carried the mad demons.


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[Assistant] Sylvie informed the last of the Neverwinter attackers, who were currently lying in ambush about this information through the sigil of listening. They were the last nail in the coffin for these demons.


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[Assistant] Before Sylvie could even finish, sounds of wind whooshing past already blocked out the rest of her words.


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[Assistant] That was a signal of falling from the high sky, and an omen of death for the enemies.


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[Assistant] The last thing the demons controlling the devil beasts expected was that someone would attack them from above. They were proud of their natural ability to strike from the air.


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[Assistant] However, in the face of the witches above the clouds, the odds were not in their favor this time.


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[Assistant] That's almost twice as fast as Maggie in the Devil Beast form.


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[Assistant] If she flew any faster, the turbulent airflow would very likely blow away her wind goggles.


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[Assistant] What she needed to do now was no different than what she did to blow up the King's City.


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[Assistant] Adjusting the horizontal direction of the bomb so that it would hit the flying demons. But the bomb she carried this time was ashes.


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[Assistant] It was a tentative decision to add an extraordinary in the battle.


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[Assistant] Ashes could fly with the help of the Stone of Flight, but she could not fight while she was controlling the stone.


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[Assistant] It would be a waste to leave such a mighty warrior on the ground, so they finally came to a solution where the little girl would carry ashes to attack the enemies. This operation turned out to be surprisingly smooth.


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[Assistant] Ashes could keep floating in the air by Earl so that she would not be a burden to lightning. And at the same time, the extraordinary spotty was strong enough to bear the violent airflow due to high-speed flight.


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[Assistant] As they broke through the thick clouds, their visions suddenly cleared up.


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[Assistant] The five devil beasts Sylvie had told them about appeared in front of them. The enemies were still unaware of what was happening above them.


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[Assistant] Lightning mustered all her strength and threw ashes towards one of them.


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[Assistant] It was not until the demon had heard the blade whistling through the air did it finally become aware of the danger that was fast approaching. But by then, it was too late.


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[Assistant] The demon swelled its arm and put the spear in an attempt to parry the strike, but Ashe's slash was unstoppable.


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[Assistant] Her sword cut through the spear before cleaving the demon in half.


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[Assistant] The last thing the demon saw was the extraordinary's pair of golden eyes.


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[Assistant] The rest of the demons were startled, and they screamed out as they made their devil beasts swerve to the sides.


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[Assistant] They all raised the spear, ignoring the devil beast whose master had just been slaughtered. At that moment, a terrifying roar distracted them. Woo! Oh whoa!


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[Assistant] The giant devil beast that Maggie had transformed into dashed out of the thick clouds and swooped towards the demons.


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[Assistant] The enemies could not help but put their focus on the gigantic Magi instead of Ashes.


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[Assistant] They knew that it was not a real devil beast, for they could see a witch on its back.


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[Assistant] Two spears hurled by the demons sped towards Maggie like a pair of shadows.


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[Assistant] The next second, the Devil Beast suddenly vanished and the Spears passed through thin air.


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[Assistant] The demons then saw a white pigeon floating proudly where the devil beast had been. Coo.


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[Assistant] Just in a flash, Nightingale showed up in front of the enemies.


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[Assistant] Although the peculiarness of the Misty World had restricted her movement in the air so that she could not act as freely as she could on the ground, she would not let any enemy within one flash escape.


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[Assistant] As long as the enemy was pulled in the Misty World, Nightingale would dominate the battle.


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[Assistant] Without God's stones of retaliation, the demon would never see her.


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[Assistant] The Devil Beast narrowback was as large as a town square door.


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[Assistant] While Nightingale shot down the demon with her revolver, she pulled the reins on the devil beast that is now masterless and had it crash into the last devil beast still with a rider.


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[Assistant] The mad demon atop the last beast attempted a desperate struggle and threw two spears towards Nightingale while paralyzing its own arm.


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[Assistant] As the magic stone was flashing blue, it did not only drain the demon's magic power, but also made half of its body wither up.


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[Assistant] Nightingale, however, did not even dodge the Spears.


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[Assistant] She merely turned the black and white world upside down so that the sky became the ground. She then stood on the abdomen of the devil beast who instead took the spear for her.


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[Assistant] The Turbulent Misty World also concealed Nightingale and her mount.


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[Assistant] Then abruptly, the devil beast, controlled by Nightingale, smashed into the last pair of the enemies. The misty world absorbed the demon in instantly.


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[Assistant] This was a strange world for the demon, and the distorted space and lighting of this world instantly distracted it.


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[Assistant] By the time the demon realized what had happened, the borderlines that were fine as silver yarn flooded over it like a tsunami.


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[Assistant] When the enemies reappeared, both the devil beasts and the mad demon had been minced into pieces, and their remains showered down to the ground below.


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[Assistant] Maggie re-transformed into the Beast and quickly caught Nightingale, who was falling, while Lightning flew to catch Ashes, who had finished dealing with the other Devil Beast. Two to one, I win. Nightingale showed two fingers to the Extraordinary. Ashes shrugged without a comment.


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[Assistant] After they landed safely on the ground, lightning produced the sigil of listening from her back.


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[Assistant] Sylvie, can you find the other two escaped devil beasts? There was a moment of silence before lightning heard the answer. Yes, I see them.


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[Assistant] Maggie returned to a pigeon, fluttered to the top of the little girl, and said with her erect bird head, Be careful with the red mist cans. Remember not to come into contact with the mist. Nightingale warned.


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[Assistant] Lightning raised a thumb and took off with Maggie, heading to where the enemies were fleeing.


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[Assistant] After waiting by the telephone for an hour and a half, Roland finally received the final battle report.


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[Assistant] The witches who were responsible for the ambush did not let any demons escape, and they also seized a lot of cans containing the red mist.


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[Assistant] Also, they acquired the corpses of the enemies shot down by the air defense squad, and Leaf also captured the final surviving mad demon was wandering around the misty forest.


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[Assistant] All in all, they had gained more from this battle than he had expected.


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[Assistant] First, and most importantly, the victory had boosted First Army's morale.


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[Assistant] The battle had let them realize that even though the demons were not an enemy that could be easily defeated like the knights or wild demonic beasts, they at least had the power to fight back.


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[Assistant] The demons that everyone had heard so much of was not supernatural and fearsome as the characters narrated in the old stories.


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[Assistant] In terms of defense, the demons, who were flesh and blood like human beings, were no better than the God's punishment army in front of His Majesty's powerful firearms.


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[Assistant] Second, the captured enemy would make the anti-demon propaganda and Neverwinter much more effective.


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[Assistant] Roland believed that once the migrants saw what the demons looked like, they would no longer discriminate against the witches. It was impossible for the demons, a kind of monster that shared none of the similarities with humankind, to brainwash the witches' minds and make the witches their servants.


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[Assistant] Lastly, the corpses of the demons would also be quite useful. For research purposes.


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[Assistant] Since the magic blood could not save up separately and would lose its power quickly after the host had died, Roland had not counted on applying the enemy's blood to new sigils.


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[Assistant] But Celine had volunteered to take on the job of making sigils in Agatha's absence.


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[Assistant] Selene told him that Agatha was indeed among the most outstanding in the entire quest society, but the knowledge of sigil-making was essential to every formal member of the society.