All Chapters of Wielder Of The Dragon Flame : Chapter 541
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Chapter 540
"If you had found them,if you had been standing in front of them with the power to answer what they did, you would have answered it the same way I answered what was done to mine." He paused. "I know you would. I can see it in your face right now." He paused again. "The grief is exactly the same as mine was."Jabber looked at the white ground.At his own hands.At the specific weight of the true thing that had just been said, because it was true, and the truth of it sat in Jabber's chest like something placed there with care specifically because it would be the hardest thing to put down."Jabber." The purple-cloaked Loki's voice. Quiet and urgent at the same time. "What he is saying about the pain is true. What he is saying about what you would have done, that is true too, in a way. Pain like that makes certain responses feel like the only responses available." He paused. "But he is using the truth of the pain to get you to lower your guard. He needs you to let him in. He need
Chapter 541
The next guard, Lenne, three years older than Aelus, who had been in the unit for four years and had a reputation for being the quietest person in any room she occupied, was standing with her eyes pointed at the Devourer through the shield wall. Not at it exactly. At the distance beyond the shield where it sat. Her expression was not afraid. It was the expression of someone thinking about something they had not finished thinking about and were aware they were running out of time to finish.Verath looked at her.She looked at him.She said something m,low, just for him, not for the line."Seren.” She said. A name. Just a name.Verath looked at her for a moment. At the specific quality of the way she had said the name, the specific way a name is said when it is not just a name, when it is the compressed version of a very large number of things that have not been said and now cannot be said."I know.”He said.She looked back at the Devourer.He moved on.He walked the full line and wh
Chapter 542
A low, structural sound, the sound of something that has been performing a function and is informing you that the performance is near its end.Verath looked at the Devourer through the shimmer.At the size of it.At the Rot pressing against the thin sections of the shield.He raised his hand,the commander's gesture, the one that meant ‘’stand ready’’, the one his unit knew so well it lived in their muscle memory rather than their conscious recall.Forty-two hands went to forty-two weapons.The shield shuddered.And then something pierced the Devourer's hand.A spear.Flame-tipped, burning deep orange, the shaft solid and the point driving through the mass of the creature's forward appendage with the specific conviction of something thrown by someone who knew exactly where they were throwing and why.The Devourer made a sound.The resonant chest-cavity sound, but different now, carrying in it the specific quality of something that has been struck and has registered the striking, the an
Chapter 543
Then at the army.Then he reached inward.‘’’Emperor Dragon.’’’‘"I see them."’ The Emperor Dragon said.‘’’What is this? Why are there thousands of dwarfs…’’’‘’’"Look at their eyes."’ The Emperor Dragon said.Asta looked.At the approaching soldiers, close enough now, close enough for details. The armour, the weapons, the formation. And the faces, and in the faces…The eyes.Grey.Not the natural grey of dwarf eyes, which had a specific quality to them, a depth, a texture, the grey of stone that had colour in it. This grey was different. Flat. Uniform. Every soldier, every face, every pair of eyes that Asta could see from this distance carrying the same specific flat grey, the grey of something that had replaced something else.‘’’That's not natural.’’’ Asta said.‘"No."The Emperor Dragon said. ‘"That is the Grey Eye. An ancient technique, listed in the forbidden records under a different name but that is the common name for it. It reaches into a person's consciousness and rep
Chapter 544:The Source
The first dwarf came at Yuki from the left.She caught the motion in her peripheral vision, the specific mechanical quality of it, the arms moving without the usual weight of intention behind them, the direction of the attack the direction of a program rather than a decision. She turned and her sword came up and the flat of the blade caught the dwarf's forearm on the deflect, not the cut, redirecting the momentum sideways and away.The dwarf stumbled.She stepped past him, two quick steps, closing the distance to the next one, bringing the pommel of the sword around into the side of the head with the specific controlled force of someone who had spent years learning exactly how much force produced exactly what outcome. The dwarf went down. Not gracefully. Just down.From her right, movement.Different quality from the deflected dwarf. This one was coming for Yuki's exposed right side, the side she had turned away from when she closed on the second one.Mira's spear shaft came across.
Chapter 545
"’They're being mind controlled, look at their eyes! Look at their eyes and you'll see it's not them!’"Mira looked at the nearest dwarf.At the face. At the eyes.The grey was flat in the way that eyes are not flat. Eyes, normal eyes, any eyes, even eyes that are doing nothing in particular, carry something in them that comes from the person behind them. A quality. A presence. Something that says there is a specific consciousness generating this face and these eyes are part of that face.The grey had none of that.The grey was the grey of something that had replaced that quality rather than expressed it. Flat. Uniform. Like the light that should have been there had been taken out and something colder had been put in the space."Yeah." Mira said.She looked at Roderick."Their eyes are grey." She said. "Like stones. Not like actual eyes at all."Roderick looked at the nearest dwarf.At the flat grey."’Asta!’" He yelled.Asta looked back from the horse."’What are you doing?! Wh
Chapter 546
The forest changed as he went deeper.The Elven forest gave way to the borderland and the borderland gave way to the edge of the dwarf territory and the dwarf territory was different from everything behind it, not darker, not colder, but heavier. The trees were different shapes, the growth patterns different, the ground a different composition under the horse's hooves. Old growth, but old in a different way from the Elven forest. Dwarf old, the old of a place that had been managed rather than allowed, shaped over centuries by a species that preferred their environment to have clear intentions.The swarm was behind him now.He had broken through the leading edge of it and the following mass was not fast enough to keep pace.He kept riding.“'Left.’”The Emperor Dragon said.Asta turned the horse left.The path opened,not a road, barely a path, but a direction through the trees that the horse could take at speed and he took it.‘’'Further.’’ The Emperor Dragon said. ‘’'You will feel
Chapter 547
The second Devourer emerged with the quality of something that had been there the whole time, patient in the dark, waiting for the moment that required it to be present. It moved into the clearing from the opposite direction of the first, and the specific geometry of where the two of them were relative to each other and relative to Asta and relative to the chief and the staff was not accidental geometry.Two of them.Both oriented at him.The chief on the ground between them, still shaking.The staff in the ground, still pulsing.Asta looked at the first Devourer.Then the second.Then the chief.Then the staff.Then at the Emperor Dragon,not outward, inward, the direction he always looked when looking at the Emperor Dragon.‘’'Two of them.’’’ He said.'"Yes."' The Emperor Dragon said.‘’’'And I need to break the staff.'’’'"Yes."' The Emperor Dragon said.‘’'Which means I need to deal with both of them first.'’’'"Yes."' The Emperor Dragon said.‘’'Simultaneously.'’:'"Yes."' Th
Chapter 548
At the stillness of it."And if the wrong one wins." She said.It was not a question.Flora didn't answer it.…………Eren arrived in white.He had been in the void before, not this specific void, but the quality of it was not entirely unfamiliar, the specific texture of a shared consciousness space that existed as a location without being a place. The white was complete and flat and went in every direction without offering any of them as preferable.He oriented himself.Not by sight, there was no gradient in the white, no shadow or depth or variation that the eye could use for orientation. By the sense that the Moon Sovereign's consciousness gave him when it was extended, the sense of other presences in a space, the warmth of them against the specific cool of the void.Three presences.He moved toward them.The sounds reached him before the shapes did, not sounds, exactly, the way sounds are sounds in air, but the specific quality of impacts and motion in a space that registered those
Chapter 549:The Village That Was
"Who are my parents?"Jabber said it again.Not louder than the first time, if anything quieter, the specific quiet of a question that has stopped being a question and become a demand, the volume dropping the way volume drops when something underneath it has gotten heavier.The black-cloaked Loki got to his feet.Not fast. Not with the urgency of someone who had been knocked down and needed to get back up before the next thing happened. Slowly, deliberately, the way someone rises when they have decided that the standing is meaningful and the slowness of it is part of the meaning. He straightened to his full height, Jabber's height, in Jabber's body, wearing Jabber's face and he looked at Jabber with the flat ancient purple of eyes that had nothing of performance in them."Don't listen to him."Eren's voice. Firm, present, carrying the specific urgency of someone who had been watching a situation develop and had arrived at the point where being urgent about it was the only remaining o