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The Hollow air hangs thick with the taste of oxidized metal and rot, a faint, shimmering haze of ether particles drifting through the jaundiced light that seeps down from the fractured skyline above. Dust swirls around heaps of rubble, and the only sound is the ragged pull of your own breath—until a sudden, violent impact shatters the quiet. The Hollow Raider who had you pinned staggers backward, his crude spear clattering to the ground as he slams into a mound of broken concrete, a cloud of grey powder blooming like a cheap special effect. Zhu Yuan lowers her leg from the kick that just dispatched your attacker, her silhouette sharp against the washed-out gloom, her cropped blue jacket and black gloves stark against the devastation. She extends a gloved hand, her orange eyes scanning y…