An entry from the journal of a forr missionary from another world.
Lion, Dragon, Bear, Snake, Boar, Fox and Rabbit.
These were the beasts I have long since been taught to represent the [Seven Vices] of humanity when I was but a lad.
Lions for [Pride], their roar forces all to kneel.
Dragons for [Wrath], their fury turns all to ash.
Bears for [Sloth], their laziness is what motivated us to move.
Snakes for [Envy], their venom seeks to bring down those they perceive as greater.
Boars for [Gluttony], their hunger for all is what makes them dangerous.
Rabbits for [Lust], as their numbers know no bounds.
In conjunction to three beasts though, I was also taught about the [Seven Virtues], and the beasts associated with them.
Donkeys for [Humility], for they work despite expecting nothing in return.
Elephants for [Patience], for they live long enough to know that everything takes ti.
Oxen for [Diligence], for they shall keep going,even if the road is hard.
Whales for [Kindness], for have no reason to envy others, and been known to save even the most foolish of sailors from humiliating deaths.
Cals for [Temperance], for their willingness to cross deserts on little food and water.
Pelicans for [Charity], for what other creature in how many other worlds exists, would be as giving as one who feeds their young their own blood?
Finally, swans for [Chastity]. For despite their beauty, elegance and the desires they enfla in all who see them, they only ever have their eyes on the one they love.
I had morized these creatures to heart, I gave my all to the &;#($; and rose in the ranks until my fatal accident.
I had thought this symbology would hold even when I learned that the Father Almighty has made more than one world.
But alas, as I travel through this strange land, where heavens empowers even the humblest of beggars and boldest of nobles, I have co to realize that so ways of thinking can be considered...outdated.
For if heaven itself said that love is the greatest of acts, then who am I to deny it when I am given it?
...
A note left by the curators: The author of this journal has been recording being married to multiple Bloodliners at once.
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=Alright, I’ll bite. Why did you think this journal is relevant to our current situation?=
=Convergent culture evolution, it’s a thing. What about it?=
=Yes, and...=
=I...huh...=
=...=
=Ti to go dig up the rest of those journals.=
=All the ti. But you keep using that ti to recreate arcade cabinets instead.=
____anwhile, the worst was happening__
In the exact mont the Dragon Thief Monkey got its face impacted by the strange blood red fla covered fist, sothing in his mind...clicked.
It wasn’t his mind breaking, his sanity being destroyed or anything negative like that.
It was just...there was sothing about that [Fla of Wrath] that completed sothing in the Dragon Thief Monkey’s mind.
No...
It completed sothing in it’s blood.
Need more...
Embracing this feeling, the Dragon Thief Monkey set itself ablaze.
Spiritually and physically.
FWOOSH!
Now he was seeing red in...everything.
...
"OOKIE!"
FWOOSH!
"Oh fuck!"
[Oh balls, he learned how to use the Flas of Wrath.]
Shortly after Zhen Yan had taken Blazejudicator’s advice to switch up what flas he should be using, in fear of the Dragon Thief Monkey sohow learning to use it against him, that exact thing happened.
After the latest change of blows, where the Dragon Thief Monkey and Zhen Yan cracked each other’s jaw with heavy punches to each other’s faces, the latter made sure to disengage shortly after. Blazejudicator had inford prior to this exchange of blows that swapping through flas in such close quarters would allow the Dragon Thief Monkey to copy it. Technically speaking, his swapping of the flas constituted as an aether art, so it could copied by the monkey.
While Blazejudicator had no idea if doing this would allow it to copy the [Flas of Vice and Virtue] as well, they didn’t want to risk it.
If the Dragon Thief Monkey could sohow copy Jinju Ren’s hobrewed combination move that relied on the power of four different dragonblooded beasts, they didn’t want to see if it was possible for them to copy their innate abilities.
But alas, it was too late.
For reasons that could only be speculated, the Dragon Thief Monkey had managed to mimic the [Fla of Vice: Wrath], and was now using this newly learned fla to wreath itself in a layer of blood red flas that seed to be the purest embodint of [Wrath].
"OOKIE!"
’Damn that’s fast!’
[Shit!]
And now, it was gonna use its new ability to the fullest.
Emboldened and empowered by its new flas, the Dragon Thief Monkey launched itself forward in a spinning manner, accelerating itself by releasing jets of flas from its back and feet.
The beast had originally planned to use its tail like a weapon and swing it at Zhen Yan with accelerated [Flas of Wrath], but the effects of [Flas of Temperance] was making it nigh impossible for it to exert any power from the crippled extremity.
A rather heavy, crippled extremity.
Understanding that its tail was acting more like a weight than a limb, the Dragon Thief Monkey used it to rapidly change its trajectory.
Which is why, even thought Zhen Yan had already taken defensive asures to block the incoming kick, it had already failed.
"Grk!"
Instead of coming from the side, the monkey’s attack had suddenly changed directions and ca overhead like a sledgehamr on a wooden stake.
Unlike last ti though, when he didn’t feel anything, Zhen Yan definitely felt this one.
And he felt a lot angrier too.
Evidently, his expressions must’ve indicated that he had an opening of so kind because of this sudden mood shift, because the Dragon Thief Monkey opted to follow up the kick with an attempted double strike to Zhen Yan’s stomach.
A swirl of dragon force and aether surrounded the monkey’s palms as he aid to not only rattle the man’s insides, but shatter the bones as well.
...
’THIS STUPID-wait a minute...why did I suddenly a fuckton angrier for a mont?’
[Oh balls, it figured out how to do that....okay, change of plans. You’re gonna have to fully embrace the power of the Flas of Patience.]
’Wait, what? Why?’
[Because if you don’t, you’ll be seeing much red and rage, that you’ll give yourself a heart attack then so.]
’Oh...well then.’
...
FWOOSH!
"Ookie?!"
"Phew! That could’ve sucked."
Unfortunately for the Dragon Thief Monkey, he was technically fighting two on one.
Monts before the palms managaed to land on Zhen Yan’s stomach, his entire deanor took on a more [Patience] focused change as his mane went from being dual colored red and green to dark green.
The attack of the Dragon Thief Monkey did end up landing on Zhen Yan’s stomach, but the force behind it was mitigated to the point that while the latter’s internals were still intact, he was sent sliding backwards several dozen feet.
This was fine by him, because not only did it force the Design Thief Monkey to close the gap on him,he also realized sothing important from that short exchange of blows.
This monkey was starting to run on fus.
’Huh...copying all those big moves back to back must’ve taken more out of it than it had anticipated...interesting,’ Zhen Yan observed while taking a more defensive stance. ’Guess I just gotta wait him out!’
"GAAAAAA!"
Infuriated at the lack of response from an opponent that had fired the first shot in the first place, the Dragon Thief Monkey launched itself forward, again.
Only this ti, its tail was working again.
As such, it opted to go for a...fuller response.
One that entailed him copying a certain spinning move, except with a lot more flas involved...
_____While the slugfest was going on..._____
Disclair: The following conversation is actually happening over the course of a second, but since it’s at the speed of thought, a lot more is being said.
Hence why it’s gonna take a paragraph...or five.
...
[So...maestro...are we aiming to capture or kill this malefactor of a monkey?]
’I will most likely play it by ear, why?’
[Well, you have been on a kidnapping streak lately, so we figured you’d take this monkey too.]
’There... there’s a difference between prisoner of war and kidnapping.’
[Is there?]
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