Fourth.

[always_scheming]

The group of bold individuals has finally returned. So it seems their actions truly saved this city from a suffocating death. The question is, for how long will this last? Perhaps your actions was exactly what they expected from you. Their stimuli was responded with the exact reaction needed

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[a_military_dog]

Maybe it was what was expected. But if the alternative was to deal with the heat forever, what would you have done in their place?

[always_scheming]

Study and analyze reactions, perhaps... validate theories?

[a_military_dog]

That's fine when it's just me on my own. Not when other people are suffering because of it.

[always_scheming]

A willing hero.

[a_military_dog]

I'm a state alchemist - 'be thou for the people.' That's our motto. Or it's supposed to be.

[always_scheming]

Alchemist?... What do you mean, exactly. Alchemy, the ancient philosophy and practice with the aim of achieving ultimate wisdom as well as immortality, involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of several substances described as possessing unusual properties.