Chapter 1131 (?-?*) I am a child, why should I reason with you?
The Fourth Era (4e) 201 Frost falls on the 29th month.
The war in Skyrim Province has burned into Fengdu City (or Fengdu City). At this time, fires are raging everywhere in the city, and smoke is rolling. The soldiers in the Storm Cloak have either died on the spot and have corpses everywhere, or they have to escape...
Of course, after knowing that there is no hope of winning, there are many people who abandon their weapons and surrender in despair.
At this time, the burning city walls, arrow towers, military camps, some houses and rolling black smoke have become the main theme of the city. The sky has been hovering, the terrifying pure-blooded fire eagles, who are not much smaller than the dragon, but are much more numerous, have directly reflected the sky above the entire city. It looks very terrifying, as if the sky fire in the doomsday is burning this city?
So far, the Fire Element Army led by Huoman and the mixed army composed of some Nords have completely controlled the situation in this city, and have lost all the way over the past few days. They have directly retreated from Valsem at the Black Shadow Pass to the old nest, Ulfric Storm Cloak and others in the fairly intact King Palace fortress in front of them.
However, the reason why the fortress is still intact is not because of how strong it is, but because the siege troops received orders and had to deliberately avoid attacks on it.
‘Uffrek!’
‘Come out and surrender! You have no chance!’
‘It’s useless to hide in your castle, come out quickly!’
‘Get out and surrender and accept the justice of my Balguff! I promise you will have a pretty decent ending in the name of the Nine Holy Spirit?’
Although, the current Fiery Balguff, the lord of Huoman City, no longer believes in the Eight Holy Spirits or the Ninth Holy Spirit Talos... However, that did not prevent him from trying in the name of the Holy Spirits to try to persuade the guy who was obviously at the end of his journey, but still planned to resist to the end.
‘…’
‘…’
After a long time, Lord Balguff, who had not heard any response or response from inside, had to turn his head helplessly with the palace mage beside him, the arsonist Farenga Secret Fire, and the loyal lord guarding the flame sword Iriles, and soon made up his mind.
'All right……'
‘Uffrek! Now that you and your gangsters have made the decision, it’s time for us to give you the final blow!’
‘Today, it will be the end of you storm-cloaked traitors who disrupt the peace and order in the sky!!’
The war has reached this level, and Balguff will definitely not let the other party hide in the fortress, hiding in the royal palace in front of him and delaying time without being moved.
So, after probably knowing the choice of Ulfric Storm Cloak and his stubborn remnants, he stopped saying anything more, but slowly raised his right hand in golden molten armor and red and shiny red and burning flames, causing two huge lava double-headed dogs to roar, dragged up a hideous molten cannon, and filled the hideous, and some ammunition inside. The muzzle, filled with high temperature and blazing flames, aimed at the seemingly strong, tall, net-shaped iron-square door of the fortress of the King's Palace.
‘…’
After everything was ready, Balgoff did not rush to order the fire, but waited patiently for a while.
Originally, they could have let the Fire Eagle set fire and completely burned the other party's strong royal palace, but he didn't want the Ulfric who died so unfairly and could not even find the body. In the end, he did not issue that cruel order. Instead, he cleaned up the city's resistance bit by bit, and finally led the team here in person, intending to attack in and see what else to say in the Ulfric Storm Cloak?
'snort!'
'fire!!'
After waiting for a while, he found that the guy Ulfric and the remnants of the storm cloak in the fort were still obsessed with it and still had no intention of opening the door to surrender, Balgoff swung his arm that had been raised for a long time hard!
boom!!!
After the order was issued, the molten cannon was pulled hard by a soldier of the flame clan behind it, and then the cannon suddenly rushed to the front of the gun and towards the gate of the King's Palace, a terrible cannonball poured from molten iron!
‘!!’
‘Wow!!!’
'Well……'
‘Ahhhh!’
The next moment, as the seemingly solid gate was instantly broken by the high-speed molten iron, there were also shrill screams coming from inside! Obviously, the remaining soldiers of the Storm Cloak who were originally hiding behind the gate and ready to continue to fight stubbornly must have been affected by the lava molten ammunition that was very ordinary to the flame clan but extremely terrifying for flesh and blood life.
Then, almost at the same time, those special "cannonballs" also ignited a lot of things in the gate of the King's Palace, causing waves of fire to rise inside and black smoke to burst out.
‘!!’
'attack!'
‘Finding that Ulfric! I want to live!’
Seeing the gate that the enemy believed in shattering instantly, and seeing the soldiers of the Storm-cloaked Soldiers who had originally planned to resist stubbornly, Balgoff once again issued a general attack order without waiting for the enemies who were rolling on the ground to stand up and organize defense.
‘Kill!!’
'attack!!'
‘Roar in! Capture Ulfric alive!!’
‘Raise!!!’
‘Fa Renjia! Take people there, and the others come here with me!’
Soon, a group of soldiers from the Fire clan rushed in like a tiger descending the mountain without fear. When the palace mage arsonist Farenga Secret Fire and the lord guard Flame Sword Ireles each led a team of soldiers to rush in, more and more fire and screams began to spread from the King's Palace Castle.
However, Lord Balguff, the leader, was not in a hurry to go in.
He just silently took a team of elite lord guards to wait outside, and the hideous lava double-headed dogs around him who were inconvenient to move in the castle building did not enter, and they just wandered aside with high-temperature slurry-like saliva. From time to time, they raised their lava dog heads and looked at the windowsills of the fortresses that were flashing with fire and screams.
But unfortunately, people or dogs outside must not be able to see the battle situation inside through the thick and solid fortress walls and narrow windows.
for a long time……
Balguff, who had been standing silently, suddenly raised his head, and without saying a word, he brought the guards in the exquisite smelting giant suit plate armor behind him, lifting his legs from the broken and storm-cloaked soldiers' bodies and walked in quickly.
Because, at this time, there were no more intense shouts of yelling and killing in the fortress of the King Palace. Then, it was obvious that the Ulfric Storm Cloak must have been caught or surrounded by their people, so he now planned to go in and see the other party for the last time.
...
“!!”
"Uffrek Storm Cloak!"
The palace was not big. Soon, Balgoff led his guard to find the hall of the King's Palace, and at the end of the long table in the hall where food and lighting candles were still placed, he found the old friend, Ulfrek, who was still sitting there and surrounded by several other subordinates!
"call!"
"We're meeting again..."
"I just never expected that this would be the case when we meet again?!"
After signaling that he had already come in and directly moved the hall to the red-reflected Farenga Mihuo, Iriles and others, Lord Bulguff sighed and walked to the front, and sat on the throne with the Ulfric who was not like a loser at all.
There is no doubt that Ulfric Storm Cloak is not only his old friend of Balgoff, but also judging from the other party's performance at this time, he is undoubtedly a hero!
But unfortunately, the other party's thoughts were too radical and extreme, and they were also very ambitious. Due to the different ideas of each other, and the crazy behavior of the other party's betrayal, murder, and killing the Supreme King of Skyrim Province, they finally made the two of them, who were originally friends, go further and further, and finally develop to the level of tit-for-tat and death confrontation in front of them.
"Forget..."
"Uffrek, surrender quickly, you have no chance! Maybe, I will mercilessly bypass your life? After all, it's all over now!"
There is no doubt that Ulfric has lost, and he lost completely!
At this time, besides the deputy general Galma Shiquan, military advisor Jorefo and several other guys he didn't know, there were only less than ten people left... With this level of resistance, let alone the powerful generals of the Fire Clan, they were afraid that any guard wearing the fire red fire giant suit would easily defeat everyone else?
Therefore, after feeling that the other party had no need to resist or escape, Balgoff persuaded him face to face again in a deep voice.
Think about it, they are also an old friend. As friends, he doesn't want to see the other party's head fall. He just wants to dismantle the other party's resistance and end the rebellion of the Storm Cloak, and save a peaceful and peaceful environment in the sky.
Although he himself and the soldiers and civilians in Xueman City are no longer pure Nords, and are often misunderstood by outsiders, no matter how others think, what they have become, it cannot change his original intention of Balguff!
"Oh!"
"Surrender..."
"Yes, I never expected that Balgoff, we would meet under such circumstances, and you became such a sad monster... I thought that you would eventually become the Imperial Army, the minions of Tulius and wave your ridiculous swords at us Nord warriors, but you would never have thought that you would eventually become a lackey under the so-called evil demon god?"
Ulfric became more and more excited as he spoke. He let go of his hand that was holding his chin and then sat up straight.
"snort!"
"Let me think about it, what's the name?"
"Oh! By the way..."
"That flame demon, Anne Hasta... an evil abominable demon with a little girl's skin. She and the dragons colluded with each other and killed everyone in your Xueman City, turned you all into evil monsters like you, and asked you to take her as yours..."
"Am I right?"
"So, do you think I, Ulfrek, will surrender to the flame demons under an evil god? Balguff, I think you must have forgotten, forget the tradition of our Nords... We Nords will never fall down with long swords, rather than throwing away our weapons and kneeling down and begging for mercy!"
Ulfric Storm Cloak just sneered, stood up from the throne, and mocked her as much as she could.
"Listen! Balguff, you coward!"
"The great Talos will not allow an evil god to rage in the land of the Nords, and today, it will not be the end of my Ulfric..."
"On the contrary! That's yours!!"
"One day, all you monsters will be killed by us Nords, and your city and the statue of the evil god will be pushed down by us! I am very sure of this, and I am happy to melt the head of the statue of the evil god one day in the future and pour it into my new serrated throne?"
“Hahaha…”
Surprisingly, it was clearly at the end of the road, but Ulfrek Storm Cloak was like a winner. While mocking Balgoff and his group of flames, he also fantasized about what he should do on one day of the "victory" that will never exist in the future?
“!!”
"Enough!"
"Uffrek! Our master's name will never allow you to defile, even if it is verbally!"
"Now, let me send you all the bastards to Songgard!!"
God knows what other party can say to the noble little master who blasphemed them, who is even greater than the gods? Therefore, Lord Balguff, who was unable to suppress his anger, waved his hand fiercely and signaled the two smelting guards behind him to come forward and deal with the enemies who were fighting stubbornly.
"Songgard?"
"Hmph! Yes, I'll go to Songgard and the Valhalla? But that's definitely not now..."
Seeing the flame monsters surrounding him and the two burly soldiers walked out. Looking at the burning flames on each other and the thick plate armor that was almost completely closed and red by the flames, Ulfrek Storm Cloak swallowed hard.
There is no doubt that in the past, even if he was given a thousand people, he would not dare to fight against such two enemies without a mage... But now it is different. He has no way out and has never thought about retreating!
So, he waved his hand calmly, and like a fox and tiger power, he asked someone in his queue to wear Nord-style fur armor and a ox-horn helmet covering his face, holding a sharp dagger in his left hand and a long sword in his right hand. The Nord-samurai, who had already been impatient, lowered his head and walked forward step by step.
“…”
“Do it!!”
Balgoff, who no longer wanted to waste his time, coldly placed his face, which was gradually shrouded in flames and anger, and issued an order to the two smelting guards.
‘…’
‘…’
The two molten fire guards with flames on their shoulders coldly held the giant skull thief axe with flames in their hands, stared at the enemy who had walked out without saying a word, preparing to cut off the other party's head and send all the guys behind the other party who blasphemed their faith to the world of the Dead Songgard!
‘Drink~!!’
Swish! Swish!
However……
What surprised everyone was that there was no big fight, nor did they see any fierce fighting. Before everyone could react, the Nord warrior had just two swords. Just when everyone was dazzled, they directly cut off the burning heads of the two smelting guards?
‘!!’
"What?!"
"this!!"
"Damn it!!"
"snort!!"
clang! clang! clang!
Seeing this situation, the generals and guards of the Fire Clan, which surrounded the throne of the King's Palace, not only reflected the entire hall red, but also raised the temperature here by at least dozens of degrees, making the originally cold sky province hotter than the Red Guards, the generals and guards of the Fire Clan, which seemed to be hotter than the Red Guards, all of them were shocked to pull out the various weapons in their hands.
"impossible!"
"Who is he?!"
Balgoff expressed his surprise and focused his eyes with his burning white flames at the warrior who was still with his head down and with a crocodile armor, who could not see who would be in the specific face! He could see that the guy was not Ulfrek's deputy Galma Shiquan, who was standing upright with an axe in front of the throne! Moreover, it was not Larov, not Khaka, nor any famous general under Ulfrek he knew.
"ha!"
"He is actually just an ordinary Nord warrior with pure blood. Anyway, you guys who have betrayed your faith and have committed another evil god will definitely not understand!"
After seeing the outstanding performance of his last killer move, Ulfric was very nervous and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
From this point of view, today, he and the lives of the last important generals around him were barely saved, and he was indeed not in a hurry to go to Songgard and the Temple of Heroes.
“…”
"Hmph! An ordinary Nord man would never be able to cut two silences into four petals with two swords, nor would there be a weapon that could easily cut off the silence giant armor in this way!"
Balgoff slowly pulled out the flaming sword from his waist and analyzed calmly.
For the extremely high body strength, fear of injury, pain, and strength at least several times that of ordinary Nords, and even has an almost immortal lava body, the ability to spit out high temperature flames, enchant weapons, and the agile skills that are not inferior to ordinary people, as well as the sturdy fire guards who are also strong in the plate armor of the sturdy giant, being killed by an ordinary Nord man with one sword and being killed two of them at the same time, that is enough to show some things.
"explain!"
"Who are you?!"
Balgoff walked to the front and, beside the palace mage, the arsonist, the arsonist, the lord guards the flame sword Ireles and other fire tribe guards who were on high alert and evil, asked sternly at the Nord, who was still slightly lowering his head, holding a dagger and a sword.
Balgoff was not worried about the two dead fire guards, because the other party would soon be resurrected in the heart of the fire man city. So what he was even more worried about now was who was the Nord who could easily kill their Fire Clan warriors?
Because, during the last two months of the war, this was the first time they saw this strange situation, especially when the other party was not a powerful mage!
‘…’
However, the Nord man did not speak, but just stood silently, as if waiting for Balgoff and others to continue to challenge him?
"I can actually answer this question..."
"Balgoff, have you forgotten the object of our Nord faith and the reason why our Storm Cloaks rose up against imperial interference and tyranny?"
The Ulfric Storm Cloak, who had completely relaxed, continued to sit on his throne, and once again supported his chin and said with a sneer.
“!!”
"You mean... he is Talos? No! This is impossible!!"
Balgoff was stunned, and soon realized what Ulfric meant and exclaimed directly.
"Who knows?"
"Maybe, maybe not...but, what's going on, don't you know if you challenge it yourself?"
Ulfric did not dare to say such offensive words, but just sneered and vaguely said. He did not admit it, but did not deny it.
“!!”
"Iriles!"
"Get him down!"
He stared coldly at the extremely proud Ulfric for a while, and then looked at the Nord warrior who was still silently eating the long sword and dagger across the middle of both sides, and Lord Bulguff hesitated for a while, and ordered the female guard who trusted the most and was the most powerful besides himself.
"yes!"
“Iriles…”
“Hmm?”
"Be careful, don't be careless!"
"clear!"
After a brief exchange, the lord guarding the flame sword, Yireles drew out her long smelting sword, and after letting the burner on the burner, he went step by step towards the enemy who could not see clearly.
“…”
Maybe it was due to honor? Therefore, Balgoff did not choose to rush forward, but hesitated for a while before making the flame energy slightly lower than his, but his combat skills were far higher than his. Iriles went to test it first.
In addition to the palace mage, the arsonist Farenga Secret Fire, Iriles is already the top combat power in Huoman City, and is also the most powerful melee fighter! Her current power is at least dozens or even hundreds of times that of her flesh and blood life before! If even Iriles can't take the other party, then the true identity of the Nord warrior is really about to emerge.
‘Come on your life!!’
‘…’
clang!
clang!
Bang!!
Under the view of the enemy and us on both sides, the powerful lord guarding the flame sword Iriles was like a roll of fire, and he fought back and forth with the silent warrior with the horned armor in this hall, and in the small circle surrounded by everyone, he fought back and forth fiercely at high speed.
‘!!’
‘Uh!!’
Soon, under the somewhat unbelievable gaze of Balgoff and others, Iriles could not hold on for long, and then quickly retreated after a muffled groan.
Judging from her actions of covering her heart and the gap in the armor, it seems that her "heart" was stabbed by the enemy with a dagger? However, that kind of injury was nothing serious for her, because their flame clan did not have a heart, and their bodies were filled with high temperature magma and energy. Such injuries were obviously not fatal to her.
However, in a one-on-one, fair showdown, she was still stabbed hard by the opponent in the heart, which was almost a loss.
"He has weirdness!"
"Not only is it extremely powerful, but there is also some unknown power in the body!"
After letting go of his hands covering his chest, seeing that the body in the broken armor had returned to its original state, no longer magma and the strange energy in the wound was neutralized by him, Eriles said in surprise.
“…”
"Go together and take them all!!"
Since Iriles couldn't beat him, he probably had no chance of winning. So, in order not to continue to be embarrassed and to end everything here quickly, Balgoff waved his hand and led the guards, guards, generals and soldiers around him to rush forward, intending to kill the strange Nord man who blocked the road on the spot, and then deal with Ulfric and others behind him.
'superior!!'
‘Be careful, what might he have to do with Talos!!!’
'attack!'
‘No matter who he is, send him away together!’
‘Kill!!’
With Balgoff's order, seeing that the flame tribe who was not the opponent who fought alone, they no longer cared about anything else. They held up their respective burning weapons and rushed forward, causing a big melee in the hall of the King's Palace.
Balgoff himself relied on his powerful flame power to attack the strange Nord man first. The others were not willing to fall behind. Seeing so many people unable to chop around a guy, they turned to Ulfric and others with nervous expressions.
‘!!’
‘Roar ~!!’
diin!!
Suddenly, just as Balgur, Eriles and Farenga Mihuo dragged a strange Nord man, and when the others were about to go ahead and kill the leader and gangster of a certain storm cloak, the strange Nord man yelled at them!
Then, the other party's mouth was instantly spitting out a cold blizzard, and it directly frozen the hall of most of the King's Palace with a thick layer of frost, and instantly frozen the warriors of the flame clan, including Balguff and other firefights.
‘!!’
‘Not good! Is it the dragon roar?!’
Snap!!
Balgoff only had time to exclaim and sideways, and one arm was cut off by the opponent. Then he narrowly broke free from the enemy's freezing and jumped back a distance. As for the Iriles and other guards who were frozen in front of him, he didn't care about it for the time being.
‘!!’
clang!!
‘It’s over…’
Just as he broke free from the opponent's shackles and a fatal blow, before he could say something or find a way to connect his broken arm, Balguff discovered in despair:
After the strange Nord warrior brutally knocked away and smashed several guards of their flame clan, he rushed directly to him. After blocking his attack with a long sword, the dagger in his other hand slashed towards his neck from a tricky angle?
Snap!!
‘!!’
‘??’
‘Who is it?!’
'ah!!'
Clang~!
When the dagger was about to pass by, and when Barr had already closed his eyes in despair, preparing to wait for the "death" and long rebirth, he found that the enemy's dagger had flew out, and then he retreated suddenly, and he didn't even care about the dagger that fell to the ground and picked it up?
‘!!’
‘Great Master, are you here?’
After panic, looking at the frozen lava fragments all over the ground and looking at the little girl standing in front of him, Balgoff didn't care about checking his casualties, and hurriedly saluted to the other party with Eriles, who had finally broken free from the shackles of the freezing.
It turned out that it was their master who had disappeared for many months, the god-like existence, the incarnation of the omnipotent flame, who had returned...
"Here! Come on!"
(lll¬▽¬)
"Really, you are useless..."
╮(╯▽╰)╭
After a mage picked up the other person's arm from the distance and threw it onto the Balguff, Anne sighed and looked at the Nord man with a tauren armor who had retreated to the throne with a sudden retreat.
‘!!’
'not good!'
‘Yes, it’s that flame demon!!’
'this……'
‘She, why did she come too?!’
Now even Ulfric could not pretend to be calm. He was so scared that he stood up from his throne and exclaimed with his subordinates.
"You are the demons!!"
e=(??vev?)))Ph!
"Larov! And Zhagen Castle! You two guys, why don't you stay in Hemu Town? Why do you come here to do?"
s(??'ヘ?;)ゞ
“Eh?!”
∑(??△)?!
"It's strange... Why are you possessed by a bad guy in Zagen Castle?!"
=??(*)
Soon, Anne, who noticed that some of her proud works seemed to be bullied by others and was instantly teleported here, discovered the reason why something was wrong.
It turned out that the Zhagen Castle was possessed by someone... No wonder she was wondering when she came here just now, why did anyone knock out so many of the hot elemental elites here at once? It turned out that this is the case?
‘…’
‘Evil Exotic Demon! The world of Tamriel does not welcome you, get out of our world!!’
Before Larov, who was frowning, explained, the possessed Zhagen Castle angrily scolded the little Annie who had just arrived here in a low and empty tone.
“!!”
Σ( ̄д ̄;)
"Damn it! What's the matter with you when they come here? This is not yours!!"
o('^??)o Humph!
‘…’
‘We don’t welcome you…if you persist, you will definitely pay the price. The Holy Spirits will not allow you to destroy the order and stability of this world!’
The possessed Zhagen Castle still spoke in that annoying and empty tone.
"I don't want your permission!"
??(??`^?)??
"Hmph! You wait, others will cast spells now. From now on, this world does not allow you to come in directly or possess them. Do you think you are still fierce?!"
??(~?)╭?
A little Holy Spirit who only relies on possession to come, dared to be domineering and threaten herself. Anne was angry and became angry and became brave in her heart and became brave. She started casting spells directly, preparing to modify and block the world, and while putting her own mark here, she also completely expelled the other party's existence, such as the demon god or the holy spirit!
'you!!'
'Dare you?!'
After a sudden sensation, as if he had noticed what the other party was doing, the Zhagen Castle, or Talos, rushed forward with a fierce sword, as if he was about to try to stop Anne's casting?
However……
"ha!"
??╭
As a light flashed towards the whole world, a certain Zhagen Castle that had not yet pounced on it suddenly paused, and then fell softly to the ground and fell into a coma...
“…”
(?w?)
"Hmph! Now you know how powerful they are now?!"
o(??^')o
"I'm a child, but I can be unreasonable. I can do whatever I want. Is it still fierce?"
(??-)??
Originally, Anne planned to discuss it carefully, but the other party actually slandered and abused herself. This made her, who had already liked to do whatever she wanted, directly attacked and completely blocked the Tamriel world, and then made the Holy Spirit Demon Gods and other things visible but never touched, and even more unable to enter, and she just angered them to death!
(…)
(● ̄(??) ̄●)
"alright!"
(*^▽^*)
"The matter here is done, you guys will handle the rest yourself!"
(^_??)☆
Anne, who had been wandering around in Skyrim Province for a long time recently, blinked playfully at the stunned Balgoff and others, and disappeared with just one teleportation. I don’t know where he went, leaving only a group of flame clans who were at a loss and the frightened Ulfric and others.
...
On the 29th of the Fourth Era (4e), the Frost Falling Moon in 201, Ulfric Storm Cloak announced his unconditional surrender, and a generation of heroes and overlords came to an end!
After Ulfric Storm Cloak and his gangsters were taken to the city of flames, a veteran baron of the former Fengdu City, Brenwufu, began to replace Ulfric and became the new lord of Fengdu City.
...
On the 11th day of the Fourth Era (4e) 201, the flame clan began to rush his troops westward and launched a large-scale attack on the northwest of Skyrim Province.
After hearing the destruction of the Storm Cloak, the Imperial Army was shocked. After the soldiers of the Fire Clan broke through Mosal's main city like a bamboo shoot, the Imperial Army and its generals stranded in Dugu City, Tulius, the highest military commander of the Empire stationed in Sky Province, saw that it was impossible to do anything, so he resolutely abandoned the city and withdrew his troops, took a boat to sea, and soon disappeared.
Subsequently, Lonely City, under the widow of the original Supreme King of Skyrim Toig, announced its surrender under the auspices of the blonde Elisif, and expressed its willingness to regard Lord Balguff, led by Xueman, as the Supreme King of Skyrim, and others under the leadership of Marcas, Morning Star City in White Land, and Rift Valley City, etc., also announced a declaration similar to that of Lonely City, expressing its willingness to accept the leadership and command of the great Lord Balguff.
On the 1st of the Morning Stars in 202, the fourth era (4e), after Skyrim Province announced that it would accept the leadership of Huoman City unconditionally, it basically completed the unification.
So, when the Supreme King Balguff officially ascended the throne in Huoman City and put on the serrated crown found in an ancient tomb, he finally became the veritable Supreme King of the Sky Province!!
At this time, a naughty little girl who had been doing something wrong in Skyrim Province and turned Skyrim Province into such a situation has long disappeared, and I don’t know where to go to play or harm other worlds...
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Chapter completed!