All Chapters of Wielder Of The Dragon Flame : Chapter 431
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Chapter 430:Finally
The training ground went dead silent.Not the silence from before, the impressed kind, the kind that comes with wide eyes and held breath because something incredible just happened. This was different. This was the silence of people watching something they didn't fully understand and weren't sure how to react to yet.Every single unit member on those benches was staring at the center of the ground.Where Caius was on the floor.He wasn't knocked back. He wasn't sent flying. He had just, gone down. Like something inside him had simply switched off mid-movement, his legs folding underneath him, his body dropping to the packed earth with a heavy, final sound that carried all the way to the back row of the benches.The unit member who had been so sure, the one who had been leaning forward with his elbows on his knees saying the captain was going to win, that the sparring was decided, that the Crimson Burial Strike would close it out, that same unit member was now sitting with his mouth o
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"If you keep forcing yourself up like that." She said.“You're going to injure your spine."He stopped fighting for a moment.She crouched down beside him, one knee on the ground, and looked at his face. His eyes were open. Alert. Frustrated in the specific way of someone who is fully conscious and fully aware of exactly what their body is refusing to do."What happened to me?" He said. His voice was steady, he was keeping it steady on purpose. "Explain it to me. I don't understand. I could feel the fight. I was in it. I could see you coming. And then I just, I couldn't move. Why can't I get my body up right now?"Mira looked at him."Wait.”She said. "You genuinely don't know what happened?""No." He said. Flat and honest. "I don't."She looked at him for another second."Huh." She said. "Okay."She reached down, got her arm under his shoulder, and stood up. He came with her,slowly, with considerable effort on both their parts, but he came up. His legs held under him, barely
Chapter 432
“He had already spent most of what he had keeping up with the pace of the fight before he ever used it. By the time he launched that final move, the tank was running on what was left at the bottom of it." She looked at Caius where he was sitting on the bench. "His body was trying to execute a high-output technique on almost nothing. And when the aura dropped below the minimum threshold the body needs to keep all systems running, the legs went first.”“Then the arms. He was fully conscious. Fully aware. His mind was still in the fight. But there was nothing left for his body to run on."The ground was very quiet.Then one of the unit members near the front raised their hand."If the captain had controlled how much aura he was using through the fight,spread it out more carefully, would he have won?"Mira looked at them.Then she laughed.It was short and warm and completely honest, the laugh of someone who finds a question genuinely funny without finding the person asking it foolish.
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She said simply. "That is why."Jabber turned and looked at her with a long, slow, extremely patient expression that communicated several things without any words. Then he turned around and walked toward the fighting ground without another word.Asta watched him go. Then looked at Mira.She shrugged."He is though.” she said.…………The girl was already in position when Jabber walked into the center of the ground.She was standing at the far end, one hand resting at her side, eyes on him. Calm eyes. The kind of calm that isn't relaxed,the kind that's focused so hard it looks relaxed.Jabber stopped a reasonable distance from her and looked at her.She looked back."You can start.” He said easily. "Introduce yourself. I don't bite."She looked at him for a moment.Then she said, "I'm a long-range attacker. Bow and arrow is my specialty." She said it short and clean, the way people give information they consider relevant and nothing else. Then she held his gaze and asked. "Which dr
Chapter 434:He Died As One
"Begin."The word had barely left Egries's mouth.The girl didn't wait. She didn't give Jabber a second to find his footing, didn't wait for him to settle into a stance, didn't do any of the things you normally do at the start of a sparring match when both people are supposed to be ready before anything happens.Her bow was already up.Her draw arm was already back.And her voice came out low and sharp and fast…“”"Flame Arc Technique— Piercing Sun."””The arrow left the string before the technique name had finished landing in the air. It came off the bow with a sound like something tearing, burning hot and bright orange, growing as it moved, not shrinking the way arrows are supposed to as they travel, but widening, pulling more flame into itself as it crossed the distance between them.Jabber's eyes went wide.He saw it coming. He had maybe half a second. Less.The arrow hit.The impact cracked across the training ground like a thunderclap, and the smoke came fast and full, thick or
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"Then I will tell you my name." She said. "So that he knows exactly who I am and where I come from."Jabber looked at her. "Okay."She looked at him directly."My name is Beatrice.Beatrice Voss." She held his gaze. "Captain of the Long-Range Attack Unit of Prince Wabash's guard." She paused for just a breath. "And the granddaughter of Aldric Voss. Flame mage of the Voss Clan. One of the last great clans from the era of the Ancient Wars."The name didn't land immediately on Jabber's face. He looked at her, waiting for the part that was supposed to mean something.She saw it and continued."My grandfather was alive during the time when the humans and the dragons were still at war," She said. "When the great flame mages hunted the dragons and the dragons hunted back and there was no line between the two sides except survival." Her voice was steady and clear, the way someone speaks when they have told themselves a story so many times it has become something close to recitation.
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‘"Yes."’Jabber looked at Beatrice for a moment longer. Then he let out a breath."Okay.”He said, he then closed his eyes.The training ground went quiet in a way that had nothing to do with anyone making a decision to be quiet. It just happened, like the air itself stopped moving and waited.Then Jabber's eyes opened.And they were purple.Not orange. Not the warm amber of a flame mage's eyes in a fight. Deep, flat purple,the colour of something old and patient and completely at home in whatever space it occupied. The posture of Jabber's body shifted too, not dramatically, not like a different person taking over a puppet. More subtle than that. The weight distribution changed. The shoulders settled differently. The head tilted just a fraction, and the way the eyes moved across the training ground was different, slower, more complete, the way something looks around a space when it has done this before and is not in a hurry.Loki looked at Beatrice .The trembling started at the ben
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He looked at her the way you look at someone when you have understood something about them that they haven't said out loud.He was quiet for a moment.Then he said. "I remember your grandfather."His voice was low. Different from Jabber's,not dramatically, but enough. Older somehow. Like the same instrument played in a different register.Beatrice didn't move."He was the strongest human flame mage I had faced in that era." Loki said. "I do not say that as something small. I faced many." He looked at her steadily. "He tracked me across two realms. He cornered me in a valley with four hunters and he fought me alone when the others fell. He had more in him than almost anyone I encountered in that time."Beatrice 's jaw was tight. Her eyes were bright in a way that had nothing to do with flame."He deserved more than the end he was given." Loki said. "I know that. I knew it then." He paused, and the pause had real weight in it. "What I did to him, consuming him,I will not prete
Chapter 438:Not Just My Prince
The arena went silent.Not the kind of silence that builds up slowly while people process something. The instant kind. The kind where one moment there was movement and sound and the next moment there was just,nothing. Like someone had reached over and turned the whole training ground off.The defence unit members were all on their feet.Not because they had stood up deliberately. Because their bodies had stood up without asking permission, the way bodies do when something happens that the brain hasn't finished understanding yet.The captain of the defence unit was flat on the ground.Passed out. Face down. Completely still. His arms were at his sides and his legs were straight and he looked less like a man who had been in a fight and more like a man who had simply decided, very suddenly, that the ground looked comfortable and he was going to lie on it.One of the defence unit members was staring at the spot where his captain was lying with an expression that had genuinely lost its fo
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"He's not." Asta said, with the tone of someone clarifying a minor scheduling detail. "I held back. He'll wake up in a few minutes. I just tapped the pressure point at the base of the neck, it's a clean pass-out, no damage." A short pause. "In case you were doing the math on whether you needed to worry."Egries looked at him for a moment."I know." She said.Then she turned to the benches. "Asta wins." She looked at the defence unit rows. "Two of you, come and collect your captain. Get him to the recovery bench and make sure someone stays with him until he's up."Two defence unit members were on their feet before she finished the sentence, jogging across the ground with the slightly too-fast pace of people who were glad to have something to do.They reached their captain, got him up between them, and carried him off with the careful, resigned dignity of people who had accepted the situation and were dealing with it practically.……………………….Asta walked back to where the others w