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SOP CH8: Seizing the Opening

by Aria — In an instant, the crowd lunged forward, each unleashing their signature skills. One-handed clubs, mechanical claws, and mantis blades, a storm of various weapons rained down toward Quicksand! Yet Quicksand remained unfazed in the face of chaos. The Clepsydra members only saw him swiftly crouch, plant a hand on the ground, and kick out with both legs. Several people had their wrists kicked out of alignment, diverting the trajectory of their strikes as weapons clashed in mid-air, kicking up brilliant…
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SOP CH7: One Against Ten

by Aria — Lately, Quicksand had been having a recurring dream. In the dream, he climbed along a staircase. Flights of steps extended tier upon tier, surrounded by tens of thousands of floating ice floes. Kaleidoscopic scenes reflected off the icy surfaces, revealing countless fragments of time. The timelines intertwined in complete chaos, forming a labyrinthine vortex. He sprinted through it, yet the stairs had no end. Until a certain moment when he abruptly realized: he was running on Penrose stairs. Moving…
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SOP CH6: A Fleeting Day

by Aria — Baota was one of the Time Entropy Group's time cleaners. He customarily wore a glass Venetian carnival mask with two round eyeholes and an upturned lower lip, paired with a black cloak, resembling a guest attending a formal banquet. Every gesture and step he took was precise down to the millimeter. Every harvest of human life was calculated to the exact decimal, and slicing open a single excess blood vessel was considered a personal disgrace. He was no longer a novice, holding some renown among the…
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SOP CH5: City of Disorder

by Aria — At eight o'clock in the morning, the neon lights opened for business one after another, emitting a red glow like the morning sun. The large plaza in the lower tier was packed with sheet-metal carts covered in waterproof tarps, resembling fish scales when viewed from a distance. Diamond and Quicksand walked out of the bar together. Diamond was a nocturnal creature, looking as if he could never wake up, practically needing toothpicks to prop his eyelids open. Quicksand had no clothes to wear, using the…
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SOP CH4: Bringing a Wolf into the House

by Aria — Diamond brought a young man of unknown origin back to Poker Bar. The bar was filled with an atmosphere of sheer astonishment as Madam Spades, Heart, and the snow leopard gathered on the ground floor, scrutinizing the young man. He was tall and slender, with a fresh, handsome face, his gray pupils brimmed with bewilderment. He stood there like a slab of granite, uttering not a single word. "Where did you pick up such a handsome lad?" Madam Spades asked Diamond. "The scrapyard." The young man…
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SOP CH3: Refusing No One

by Aria — Countless attacks accumulated outside the stasis bubble, and after the bubble shattered, they struck Quicksand like a violent storm. He felt a pressure like the crumbling of mountains and the splitting of the earth as multicolored signboards smashed down on him from high above. An egg falling from the eighteenth floor could fracture a human skull, let alone hundreds of these signboards. Quicksand possessed a physique far surpassing that of ordinary time cleaners, yet his head was his Achilles' heel. He…
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SOP CH2: Playing with Fire

by Aria — The year 2026 was an era that held a unique significance for the Time Entropy Group. After monopolizing time-jump technology, countless rebels, individuals who obstructed corporate profits, and useless people were exiled by the Group into brutal past eras. Some had their heads bitten off by ferocious Cretaceous Carcharodontosaurs; some had their bodies impaled by the lances of medieval cavalry; others were abandoned in city corners ravaged by the Black Death, left to wait for death to claim them. All…
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SOP CH1: Era of Brilliance

by Aria — The elevator descended slowly, falling like a meteor into a sea of multicolored neon signs. Through the glass, a massive metropolis of steel revealed itself. Countless steel rebars twisted and coiled in a spiral, dominating the earth like a giant snake. The further down they went, the more dazzling the neon lights became, merging into patches like cheap strings of glass diamonds. Acid rain poured down, washing crisscrossing ravines into the ground. Two people stood in the elevator. The lighting…
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