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Chapter 11: Chapter 11: Preparation
James went to his room and closed the door behind him. The space was barely large enough to turn around in with just a bed pushed against one wall, a desk shoved under the cracked window, and water stains spreading across the ceiling like brown maps. He sat down on the bed and picked up the black skill book he’d dropped there earlier.
The skull embossed on the cover caught the light from his cheap desk lamp. James opened the book and found blank pages covered in glowing symbols that shifted and moved like living things. He couldn’t read the symbols but he understood what they meant anyway, and the knowledge pushed itself into his head without asking permission—how to gather mana in his palm, how to choose a target corpse, how to make it explode from the inside out.
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