Kerric's Lunch guest arrive and he gets a better feel for him but is interrupted

Kerric and Meashandra prepare for the arrival of the duke

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Some times all a slave needs is a chance, even if that slave is an ogre child

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Would you commit cold blooded murder if you thought someone deserved it for power? Taking a deep breath to steady himself, Robert put the crosshairs right on the bastard’s head. Day after day, for a week, he’d practiced this shot at this range, but he’d never killed before, not even hunting. But Carter damn well deserved it, death, beyond a doubt.

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Kerric continues the interrupted punishment of the young slave then puts her to work.

“Come out! Necromancer! You killed my sister. I’m going to kill you!” screamed a woman’s voice.

Kara, also known as the fourth universe, enhances psychic powers to the point that they call it magic. Human’s and other races there also call imbuing things with psychic energy, enchanting, and doing things with that psychic energy to affect reality, spell casting. Every child begins learning both spell casting and enchanting as soon as they can talk, and mankind has been making gene modifications for generations that has massively improved that ability.

Kerric talks with the man that tried to kill him.

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What if we met people that had truly honor bound leaders. “Stop right there,” the big-headed green creature said from across his desk, holding up his boney fingered hand. Its eyes narrowed down, and he pushed the proposal back across his desk before going on. “I’m sorry, but I don’t even have the power to grant this exclusive contract request, even if I thought it a good idea, and I don’t.

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Kerric is ambushed but it doesn't go as planned for the ambusher