All Chapters of THE ALMIGHTY DOMINATING AURA: Chapter 71
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CHAPTER 71 - WHISPERED VERDICTS
The medics half dragged, half carried Kael through the stone corridors beneath the arena. His boots scuffed against the floor, leaving faint, dusty streaks with every step. The air smelled of chalk, blood, and that strange mineral tang still clinging to his tongue after contact with the Dominion Stone.He blinked against the torchlight, vision swimming. Every time he closed his eyes, he saw red fissures spiderwebbing outward from the Stone. Every time he opened them, Selene was at his side, sharp and stubborn, refusing to let the medics push her away.“You don’t have to hover,” Kael rasped. His voice cracked halfway through, as though his throat had been dragged across gravel.“I’m not hovering.” Selene’s tone was clipped, but her fingers stayed knotted in the fabric at his elbow. “I’m making sure you don’t collapse before they decide your fate.”Kael coughed, a dry, rattling sound. “Decide… fate. You make it sound like I’m already on trial.”“You are.” She looked at him, eyes bright
CHAPTER 72 - THE COUNCIL'S VERDICT
The summoning bell tolled through the academy grounds, deep and resonant, carrying on the autumn wind. Each peal set a strange vibration through Kael’s chest, as if the world itself were preparing to judge him.Selene walked at his side as guards escorted them from the infirmary. The hallways bustled with apprentices whispering in corners, their eyes following Kael with a mix of awe and unease. He caught fragments of words, Stone breaker… unstable… dangerous… chosen?The whispers crawled under his skin, but he forced his jaw steady. He would not give them the satisfaction of seeing him falter.The Grand Hall of Verdicts was already crowded when they arrived. It was a cavernous chamber carved into the heart of the academy, lit by tall braziers that painted the high arches in shifting gold and shadow. Stone benches formed concentric rings around the central dais, where the council sat robed in black and silver.At the far end, above them all, the Headmaster’s seat loomed beneath a banne
CHAPTER 73 - SHACKLES OF POWER
The training field looked different now.Not because it had changed, same worn flagstones, same chalked rings but because of the people around it.Guards lined the perimeter, their armor glinting dully under the morning light. Elders stood like shadows at the edges, quills scratching against scrolls as they took notes of every motion Kael made. Even the wind seemed hesitant, brushing across the field with a cautious whisper.Kael stood in the center, shirt clinging to his skin, breath misting faintly in the cold. Sweat trickled down his spine though the air was cool. Every movement felt heavier, every breath too loud, as if the entire academy were listening.Selene stood near the observation bench, her arms folded, face tight. Marrick, his new appointed overseer stood beside her, expression unreadable. He had been assigned as Kael’s supervisor “for evaluation of aura stability,” though Kael suspected the real reason was less clinical and more containment.He rolled his shoulders, tryi
CHAPTER 74 - THE NIGHT THE AURA STIRRED
The academy at night felt like another world.No chants, no drills, no orders barked from the training yards. Just silence… a heavy, breathing silence that pressed against Kael’s ears as he sat on his narrow bed.The single candle by the window guttered low, its flame shivering whenever the wind slipped through the cracked frame. Beyond the glass, moonlight painted the dormitory walls in pale silver streaks, catching on the scattered scrolls and a half-finished flask of water.Kael hadn’t slept a minute. He couldn’t.His body was exhausted, muscles trembling faintly, joints aching from overuse but his mind was too alive. Every time he closed his eyes, he felt that whisper again. That faint vibration deep under his skin, threading through bone and pulse.The chains are not to hold you…He rubbed his face, breathing out hard. “Great,” he muttered to the empty room, “now I’m hearing voices.”Still, the memory of that sound clung to him. It hadn’t felt like imagination. It had felt inside
CHAPTER 75 - THE AURA THAT DISOBEYED
Morning sunlight crept across the stone floor, touching Kael’s face like a hesitant hand.He stirred, blinking against the pale brightness that filtered through the cracked dorm window. His mouth was dry, his body sore, and his head felt… thick like he’d been swimming in his own thoughts all night.He sat up slowly. His hands still trembled faintly. When he turned them palm-up, he saw faint violet veins pulsing beneath the skin. They dimmed and brightened in rhythm with his heartbeat.“Still here,” he muttered.No whisper answered this time. Just silence and the distant sound of the morning bells echoing through the Academy grounds.He rubbed his face, trying to shake the fog from his mind. “Get up, Kael. Act normal. Don’t give them a reason to look twice.”Outside, the training field was already alive with movement. Students practiced aura control, some in tight groups, others in solitude.The metallic clang of sparring weapons and the hum of unleashed energy filled the crisp mornin
CHAPTER 76 - SHADOWS AMONG ELDERS
The council chamber was a hollow heart buried beneath the academy, a place few ever saw, and even fewer left unchanged.The walls were old stone, veined with ancient runes that shimmered faintly in the torchlight. The air smelled of wax, ink, and something colder like forgotten promises.Elder Marrick stood before the long obsidian table, his expression drawn tight. Six others sat around it, each cloaked in layered robes of rank and age. At the head of the table, a single figure leaned forward, his fingers steepled beneath his chin.Elder Veylan.The man’s silver hair glowed faintly in the firelight, his eyes sharp as the edge of a blade. When he finally spoke, his voice cut through the silence.“So… you’re saying the boy’s aura acted without command?”Marrick nodded stiffly. “Not entirely without control but independent. It responded to threat before he even moved. It struck down another student with precision, not rage.”Veylan’s gaze darkened, unreadable. “And you’re certain it was
CHAPTER 77 - RAYS OF WHISPERS
The first light of dawn slipped through the cracked shutters, spilling thin gold across the stone floor of Kael’s chamber.For the first time in days, he woke without the ache of battle still clinging to his skin but the silence felt wrong.Too still.Too expectant.Kael pushed himself up, blinking at the dust drifting lazily through the sunlight. His body was fine, stronger even, but his pulse hummed with that faint, invisible rhythm again, the Dominion’s whisper beneath his heartbeat.He exhaled slowly, letting the air steady him.Not now, he thought. Not again.When he reached for the pitcher of water, his hand hesitated. The liquid inside the cup rippled once, twice though the air was perfectly calm.He froze.Then forced himself to drink anyway.Outside, the academy was restless. Students gathered in tight clusters across the central courtyard, voices low but urgent. The banners that hung from the stone towers fluttered despite the lack of wind.Selene found him near the western
CHAPTER 78 - THE TRIAL DAY
The academy bells rang three times, deep, resonant, ancient.Each toll rolled through the valley, stirring crows from the spires and sending ripples of unease across the courtyard below.Kael stood at the edge of the great stone steps, his cloak tugging softly in the morning wind. The air was too cold for summer, carrying the metallic tang of aura residue. It wasn’t natural weather. The Elders were already manipulating the field.He inhaled slowly, his breath clouding in front of him.So it begins.The plaza was crowded. Hundreds of students filled the tiers around the central ring, a circular platform carved from white spiritstone, lined with intricate runes that pulsed faintly with silver light.Selene was among them, her arms crossed, jaw tight.She hadn’t spoken much since last night, only told him quietly. Don’t fight the way they want you to.He hadn’t answered then. He still couldn’t.The elders stood on a raised dais opposite the ring. Veylan was at the center, robed in gray a
CHAPTER 79 - WHISPERS BENEATH THE DAWN
The dawn that morning came gray and thin, the kind that couldn’t decide whether it wanted to burn bright or stay cold. Mist coiled low across the cracked training grounds, still smelling faintly of ozone and sweat from the Trial of Dominion.Kael stood there, still in partial bandages. The surface of his right arm shimmered faintly, residual aura scars that hadn’t faded even after the healers’ full attention. Every time he flexed his fingers, a small pulse ran through the lines of gold and black energy beneath his skin.He exhaled, long and shaky. “Still not steady,” he muttered.The air answered him with silence, only the soft flap of a banner half torn by wind. His hearing had grown sharper since awakening deeper into the Dominating Aura. Too sharp, maybe. He could almost hear the tension in the academy, the gossip, the doubts.They say he broke the seal.No one should’ve survived that duel.Maybe he’s not human anymore.Kael tried to ignore them, but he could feel it, fear. Student
chapter 80- The gathering storm
The council chamber of the Academy of Auras was not made for warmth.It was a circle of stone and silver, cold and too vast for comfort. Every word spoken there echoed as if whispered into eternity.Kael had never liked it. Even now, sitting quietly at the edge as the Council gathered, he could feel the weight of judgment in the air.Seven elders sat around the half moon table, their faces ghostly in the torchlight. Elder Veylan, of course, occupied the center, robes of deep violet, the faint shimmer of his personal aura coiling like mist around his chair.“Let us begin,” Veylan said, his voice smooth as oil.The attendants fell silent. Kael’s heart thumped once, twice, before he forced himself still.He wasn’t supposed to be here at all, technically, only high ranked students and sponsors were allowed to attend Council hearings. But after the Trial of Dominion, his name had become unavoidable. His presence was “requested,” though he could tell from the glances that it was closer to