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Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.

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My Martin and you are listening to dad's bedtime stories. Tonight,

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we're going to jump back into the Cards of Power

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series and continue the preliminary rounds of the Deity level tournament,

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which I set up as one on one battles where

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Magnus and you will have to take on some other opponents.

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And I got a couple of great ideas that I

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think I'm gonna put in this episode, so let's check

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them out.

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Speaker 2: Him My name is Alan from Australia, and my suggestion

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for the Count of Power series is that in the

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Daily level tournament, you face again someone named Allen, and

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he has a book dragon and it's almost impossible to

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beat it until Bugnes uses his naughty attack. Thanks out

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of your podcast.

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Speaker 1: Great idea, Arlen. This one took me a lot of

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thought to think about how a book dragon might be

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a really good opponent for Magnus, but I think I

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got some really cool things down. I also thought that

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we'd probably have time for two battles in this one,

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so I took one more idea. Let's check it out too.

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Speaker 3: My name is Connor Aldrich. To suggest a story suggestion

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for the Cards of Power series, and it's a karate

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chicken as an opponent.

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Speaker 1: Great idea, Connor, the second opponent today will be a

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karate chicken. If you like the podcast, don't forget to

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rate us and review us on whatever app you're listening on.

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difference to other people finding the podcast, so I really

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really appreciate those, as well as any ratings kind of

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anywhere you're listening. I also got some new submissions for

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my story and artwork contest, so thank you first of

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all to Caspian who sent in a story that I

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believe he dictated to some parents there and they sent

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to me. And thank you to JD who both submitted

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some stories and some pretty awesome pictures inspired from the podcast. Again.

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I'll be starting to put up some of the artwork

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onto I don't know my different social media platforms like

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Instagram and stuff like that, and I'll be picking a

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winner of both the story and the artwork competition to

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do a story with me. I believe in the last

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episode I said you had until April thirteenth to hand

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them in, but I, for some reason was going backwards.

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In my head, it really should be June thirteenth, So

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thank you to the Spotify commenters who pointed that out.

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I really appreciate it. And now it's probably time to

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get on with the story after a possible word from

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a pousible sponsor, of course, because unfortunately we need to

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keep the on around here. Now it's time to get

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as comfy as he can in that bed. Close your

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eyes and imagine yourself doing what the kid in the

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story does. You wake up inside a very luxurious hotel.

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You get up, stretch, and move over to the bed

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where Magnus is curled up like a little dragonling kitten

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or whatever. Ah. Time to get up already, he says,

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as he gets himself on his feet and stretches his

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back up in the air like a cat. You head

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down the elevator to the main lob you wear. You

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smell well, one of your favorite smells in the entire world,

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a complimentary continental hotel breakfast. You spend some time. I'm

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piling your plate full of all kinds of different breakfast foods,

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whatever sorts of things you like anyways, and then you

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head over to one of the screens, the ones that

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can tell you who you're up against next and where

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you're gonna battle. Please present your ID card, the screen says.

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So you reach into your card core and produce the

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glowing ID card in front of you. The screen scans it,

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and a schedule pops up in front of you. It

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looks like you have two battles on the docket today.

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The first one says it's against someone named Arlen. All right,

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it looks like it's actually happening in a few minutes.

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And the second one, a little bit later today is

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against Connor. There's not much of a break between the two.

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You quickly read over the details for the match against Arlen.

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It says it's in competition Building two, Arena three. You

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run outside through the main parking lot and look around

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until you see the large two sign over one of

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the battle arenas. You summon your magic wing card and

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blast across the parking lot as quickly as you can,

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landing in front of the door and allowing the wings

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to return to your card core as you enter. You

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immediately make your way to the registration desk. Will come

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your ID cod Please, you again produce your ID card

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in the air. The lady picks up a little handheld scanner,

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scans the thing and looks at a computer screen. Ah, yes,

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your battle is about to begin. You are in battle

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Arena three. It's just down that hallway to the right.

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You run down the hallway she's pointing to until you

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see a big number three over top of an elevator.

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You and Magnus climb on the elevator and it automatically

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closes and moves upward. When the door's open, you find

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yourself once again in an almost identical battle arena to

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the day before. They seem to be well clones of

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each other. There's already a referee standing in the center,

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and your opponent, presumably Arlen, standing across from him with

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a well a dragon holding a buck. You walk to

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the center, where the referee greets you. All right, then,

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welcome to your next round of the competition. I believe

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you two already know the rules. This is an instant elimination.

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Winner goes on to more rounds, and the loser, well,

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they don't go on at all. Any previously scheduled matches

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for after this one will be erased and reassigned. Now,

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I believe you two have already declared your battle partners.

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On one side, here we have Arlen, who has declared

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a deity level book dragon. I'm interested to see exactly

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what that is. And on this side, I believe you

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have declared a deity level fire dragon named Magnus. If

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you please make your way to your circles. You quickly

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reach o your hand and give Arlen a nice handshake

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to say good luck before walking to your circle. You

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step inside the circle and a force field is produced

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around you, one that can keep you safe from the battle.

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At the same time, the referee floats up in the

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air and produces a force field around himself. All right,

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if you two are ready, we will begin the match

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in three two one go Immediately, Magnus begins to transform

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into his deity level form, glowing and growing larger and

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larger and larger, until he's a very large black dragon

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with veins of pure sunlight energy across the battlefield. The

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book Dragon hovers up into the air with its wings

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spread wide and around him. Dozens of books appear around

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him and begin to circle slowly. Each one has a

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different symbol on it, one that looks like a flame,

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a lightning bolt, a tornado, a fist of stone, something

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that's maybe like a sound wave, a portal picture, a shield,

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and many more that you don't even recognize. Magnus lowers

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his head and digs his claws into the ground. Sunlight

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energy begins to pulse through his veins. Careful, Magnus, you say,

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I don't think those books are just decoration. I noticed.

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Magnus rumbles the book dragon simply smiles, but not a

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very friendly smile. One of the books snaps open. The

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page turns by itself at A blast of blue flame

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shoots from the book like a cannon. Magnus reacts instantly.

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He opens his jaws and answers with a blast of

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fire of his own. A roaring stream of golden orange

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flame slams into the blue fire halfway across the arena,

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and for a moment the two attacks push against each other.

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Then another book opens, a lightning book. A bolt of

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electricity shoots sideways, curving around Magnus's fire blast and striking

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Magnus in the shoulder. Magnus roars as sparks dance across

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his scales before he can recover. A third book opens,

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one that has a stone fist symbol on it. Chunks

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of rock rip themselves out of the ground and start

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to launch themselves at Magnus like boulders from a catapult.

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Magnus swings his tail and smashes the first two apart.

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He grabs a third using his elemental powers, shoving it

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off to the left, but a fourth one strikes him

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hard in the ribs and pushes him backwards. The book

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Dragon flaps his wings once and rises higher. The book

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spin faster around him. Ah, he says, annoying. Magnus growls.

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Then he inhales deeply. The sunlight lines across his body brighten,

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making the room hotter and hotter and hotter, before he

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unleashes a huge cone of pure sunlight energy directly towards

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the book Dragon and his little floating library. But just

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before the flames reach him, another book snaps open, a

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sho shield book of some kind. A glowing barrier appears

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in front of the book Dragon, and the fire or

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pure sunlight energy spreads across the shield like water hitting glass.

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The barrier flickers, but it holds. Another book opens. A

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windspell blasts through the flames, punching Magnus backwards across the ground.

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You start to worry, Magnus is strong, but this dragon

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is fighting with so many powers at once. You watch

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as Magnus charges. He leaps into the air, wings beating hard,

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and then flies straight down towards the book Dragon with

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his claws outstretched. Another book opens, a teleportation book. Purple

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energy flashes, and the book Dragon vanishes. Magnus slashes through

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empty air. As the book Dragon reappears behind him. Another

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book opens and a massive, invisible shock wave of sound

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blasts out. Magnus is hit from behind and sent crashing

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into the arena floor. Magnus pushes himself up, shaking dust

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and broken stone from his wings. I'm fine, he says,

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but he looks rather angry. He stomps both of his

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front claws into the ground. He pours out of them

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into the stone beneath the arena, and the ground begins

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to glow. Red. Cracks spread outward in every direction as

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the floor softens into lava. You grin, that's it now.

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He can't land, but the book Dragon seems perfectly happy

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to continue hovering. The wind book opens again, and a

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swirl of air shoots beneath the dragon, holding him in

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the air with absolute ease. Magnus narrows his eyes, and

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the book Dragon opens three books at once, fire stone,

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and lightning. A storm of attacks slammed down towards Magnus.

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He spreads his wings, wraps them around himself, and starts

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glowing with pure sunlight energy. Fire splashes across him, Lightning

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cracks into him, and stone shatters against his back. Having

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control of all of these elements, Magnus is able to

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hold firm for a moment until the Portal book opens.

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A glowing portal appears beside Magnus, another above him, and

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the stone chunks that had shattered against him are sucked

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into the first portal and fired out through the second,

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hitting him directly in the head. Magnus stumbles backward. How Magnus,

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if heat won't work, eh, maybe try freezing everything right,

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Magnus responds, and he sucks in a huge, deep breath.

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The ground below him hardens into obsidian, and everything becomes

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incredibly cold. As Magnus absorbs every single bit of heat

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that he possibly can, the books start to develop frost

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across them. Magnus reaches out with his mind to any

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water vapor in the air, crystallizes it into ice spikes,

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and launches them straight towards the dragon, but again the

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shield book pops out in front of him and covers

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him in a protection develayer of energy. This is getting old,

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Magnus says. As books start to swirl around him, launching

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attacks of all different kinds of elements, Magnus decides that

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he needs to try something a little bit different. He

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reaches inside himself. He connects with the power he's only

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used a little bit before, the power of lightning. He

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focuses all of the heat energy he's absorbed into the lightning,

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and instead of aiming it in any particular direction, he

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just lets it explode outward. Chains of lightning bolts spread

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from the dragon, crashing into various different books and then

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chaining themselves to other ones. Magnus forces all of the

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heat energy he possibly can into the blast as the

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lightning arcs from book to book to book. When the

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blast finishes, most of the books, with a single exception,

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drop to the ground. The only one still hovering is

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the lightning book itself, which seems unaffected for obvious reasons,

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but it honestly shouldn't be difficult. Now, Magnus begins to

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glow brighter and brighter until his entire body transforms into

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pure sunlight. Then he unleashes a blast of pure sunlight

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energy directly at the dragon. The one remaining lightning bolt

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shoots out in front, attempting to block the blast, but

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the blast goes straight through it and straight into the Dragon,

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breaking him apart into a bright blue form of energy

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that's reabsorbed into Arlon's card core. Well, I believe that

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is a match, the referee says, as he floats down

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towards the ground. Now, Arland, unfortunately you are out of

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the tournament this year, though I do highly recommend you

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try out again next year. That book Dragon of yours

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is mighty powerful to the winner. You're probably gonna want

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to double check your matches for this afternoon. Well, we

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do schedule additional matches in advance. They often have to

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be changed as people are eliminated. Oh and if you

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need to recharge your magical creature, there should be a

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hospital building nearby ready to do that. The shield around

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you disappears. You walk to the center, shake Arland's hand

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and pat him on the back. Have book Dragon's amazing,

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you say, Hopefully we'll meet each other again, Hanks Arlen says.

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You step into the elevator and go back down to

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the main floor. You immediately go over to a screen,

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scan your ID card and see that, well, you're still

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up against Connor this afternoon. That must mean he won

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his match. You and Magnus, who is now the size

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of a dragonling, once again, head directly for the hospital building.

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What are we doing here? I feel fine? You might

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feel fine, but you took a bunch of hits. I

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don't think we should start a new daity level match

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when you're not at one hundred percent. You respond, now fine.

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You head into the hospital building, where you meet a

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nice person at the counter. Welcome to the hospital. I

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see you have a magical creature that could use recharging

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and healing. Please step onto the platform. You gesture for

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Magnus to listen. He jumps up on a large, circular,

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technological looking platform and blue energy shoots into him. When

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the energy stops, he steps out of the circle and

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looks up at you. That was amazing. I feel like

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I just slept for a whole day, and I don't

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know when to a spa or something. Can we do

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this again after maybe, buddy, let's go check out the

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next match. You head over to Building four and check

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in at the counter. You're directed over to Battle Arena

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number two. You make your way into the elevator, go

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up to the floor, then step out to once again

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see a referee and an opponent standing across from him.

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You walk towards them, and the referee introduces herself. Heh, welcome.

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My name is Betty and I will be your referee

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for today. I see the two of you have already

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declared your matches. On this side we will have a

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deity level fire dragon that apparently has other elemental powers

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as well. And on this side we have Connor and

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a karate chicken. Is that right? A karate chicken. That's right,

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Connor says, But he's now ordinary karate chicken. He's a

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deity level karate chicken. Connor's core begins to glow. Energy

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swirls out of it and forms itself into a well

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like an adult human sized chicken, wearing a karate gee

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and adorned with all sorts of martial arts weapons, two

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swords on its back, a bow staff, and one hand

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size tucked into its belt, nun chucks, ninja stars, everything

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you could imagine. Mar Car the karate chicken says, ah, okay, then,

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well to your sides, card holders, we will begin shortly.

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A glowing shield appears around the judge and she floats

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up into the air. You shake Connor's hand and then

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move across the battle arena into your protective circle. Energy

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glows around you, and Magnus steps out in front. All right,

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we will be getting in three two one. Magnus immediately

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transforms into his deity level form as the karate chicken

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draws both of its swords from behind its back and

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then takes on a come and get me sort of

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karate stance, holding one blade up in the air over

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its head and the other out in front of itself.

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Magnus takes in a deep breath and breathes out a

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plume of fire. The karate chicken well almost instantly disappears

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from the place it was standing and reappears beside Magnus's face,

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swinging the sword down and cutting him on the cheek. Now, hey,

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clearly it can move an incredible speed. Magnus tries to

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strike it with his claws, but again the karate chicken

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just does a sort of front flip over top of them,

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lands underneath spins in a circle and slices straight at

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Magnus's chest before jumping backwards across the arena. It reaches

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into its gee and pulls out a whole bunch of

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ninja stars. The karate Chicken starts to throw them towards Magnus,

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who responds by stomping on the ground and lifting up

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a huge column of earth and rock right in front

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of himself. As the ninja stars hit, they explode, blowing

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up the giant rock face, shooting rocks into the air,

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but Magnus doesn't hesitate. He rabs the rocks out of

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the air using his mind and wills them to fly

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towards the Ninja Chicken. They crash into the ground. As

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the Ninja Chicken begins jumping and flipping and well doing

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a whole bunch of ninja like moves to move out

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of the way. As he flips, he continues to launch

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ninja stars that explode upon contact. Magnus once again presses

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his claws into the ground. Heat energy pours into it,

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spreading all over the arena and melting the ground itself

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into lava once more, But instead of sinking into it,

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the Ninja Chicken just begins to glow some sort of

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aura peers around its body, and it stands right on

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the lava. Smoke continuously rises up from where it's feet

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hit the ground, but somehow it can walk on this stuff,

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like a martial arts master that can stand on hot coals.

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Magnus dives down into the ground, swimming through the lava itself.

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The ninja chicken takes on a defensive stance and begins

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to focus, ready for an attack from any direction. Columns

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of lava start to shoot up from the ground straight

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towards the chicken. One by one. It slices them in

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half with its sword, moving over to the side and

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taking on a fighting stance once again, But Magnus never

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shows himself. He stays in the lava and continues to

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launch attacks of rock and lava again and again. And

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while he does, the temperature in the room begins to

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rise hotter and hotter and hotter, until the chicken starts

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to look a little drowsy, a little heat exhausted. Its

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eyes start to close just a little bit, as if

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it's getting very tired, and the next strike of lava

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actually manages to hit it in the back, sending it

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flying across the arena. And crashing into another column of

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lava that shoots up from the ground and catches the

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little chicken, wrapping around it and solidifying in to obsidian.

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Then Magnus rises out of the ground, takes a deep breath,

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glows with pure sunlight energy, and unleashes a blast of

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mixed elemental force pure heat, ringed with rocks, lightning, and

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even air. They blast into the chicken all at once

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and wel It immediately transforms back into a bright blue

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energy and flies into Connor's card core once again. Very good.

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I believe that is a match. If you would please

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a terial magical creature to make the ground walkable again,

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that would be great. Uh, Magnus, you heard her right,

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Magnus says, pulling himself up out of the lava. He

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takes in a deep breath and freezes the ground, turning

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it all into obsidian. It once again looks nothing like

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it did when you two started, but well, you're sure

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they have some sort of car that can transform it

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back without an issue. Very good. I declare you as

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the winner, Magnus. Uh Cotda. Unfortunately you are disqualified, but eh,

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your karate chicken was quite impressive. I believe against many

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other opponents, it would have won the protective barrier around you,

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and Connor disappears. You walk to the center line and

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shake his hand as Magnus devolves back into his dragonling form.

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You exit the arena through the elevator and out into

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the main lobby, where you double check to see if

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you have any other matches for today. Nothing comes up,

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so you head back to the hotel area, back up

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to your room and climb in into your bed. Magnus

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curls up at your feet, stretches, and lays down, immediately

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falling asleep. You pull the covers up to your chin,

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close your eyes, and start to focus on your breath.

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With each breath, your muscles relax a little bit more,

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your shoulders fall away from your ears. Your arms and

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legs release any tension they have and sink down into

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the mattress. And with each breath, your mind begins to

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wander off to thoughts of new dreams and new adventures

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to come. Good night, everyone, mumm.

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Speaker 4: An never Nion name Aco in New York more Minion.

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Speaker 1: No no

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Speaker 4: No assas