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Dark Paladin #2

The Quest

Name: The Quest
Rating: 3.93 (758 reviews)
Author: Vasily Mahanenko

Vasily Mahanenko June 29, 2017

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Surviving in a tough situation is not always the best option; sometimes dying is much better than staying alive. The Academy showed Paladin Yaropolk what makes the world go round: pragmatism and personal gain. Restart was set in motion, but it only makes players more frantic. Now everyone plays only for himself. Yaropolk faces the same dilemma: be like all of them, or keep his humanity and be known as an odd duck. Because there is only one rule in this world: kill or be killed…

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