All Chapters of Wielder Of The Dragon Flame : Chapter 551
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Chapter 550
He looked at Jabber.At the face.At what was in the face, the specific expression of someone who is in the middle of a process that hasn't finished and is not going to finish by running away from it."Jabber." Eren said."Get out of here.” The purple-cloaked Loki said. Urgent. Clear. "Go with him. If you leave this space, the black-cloaked version can't sustain itself without a host,it will dissipate. You will be free. Asta is outside. Flora. Yuki. Mira. Roderick. Everyone who actually knows you is outside and they are waiting…""’Shut up.’"Jabber said it quietly.Just two words.But the specific quality of them, the way they came out, the weight that was underneath them, the thing that had generated them,made the purple-cloaked Loki stop as completely as if a physical force had been applied.His eyes went slightly wide.Across the void, the black-cloaked figure's lips pulled into a small curve."Jabber.”Eren said.Jabber turned to him.And the look on Jabber's face was not the
Chapter 551
In the white void, Jabber was alone with both of them."Alright." He said.The space had the specific quality of a space that has reasserted its own nature after something foreign was in it, not cleaner exactly, but more itself. More clearly his."I've taken care of the intruder.”he said. "Now talk."The purple-cloaked Loki stepped forward."Jabber.” He said, and the urgency in his voice had not reduced in the time since Eren left, if anything it had intensified, the specific urgency of something that has lost an ally and knows the clock has changed. "Listen to me. Please listen to me for thirty seconds and then do whatever you're going to do." He looked at Jabber with the eyes that Jabber knew, the flat ancient purple, but carrying in them right now something that had nothing flat about it. Something that was very present. "He is going to show you something real. The truth he has is real,I am not going to tell you it isn't, because it is and you would know if I was lying." He
Chapter 552
And two people.Standing together at the entrance of a home, a man and a woman, close in the way of people who were close because proximity was their natural state rather than a choice they made moment to moment.The man was laughing.Not at anything visible, the specific laugh of someone responding to something the person beside them had just said, the laugh that belongs to a very specific relationship, the laugh that is not performed.The woman was watching him laugh with the expression of someone who finds the laugh satisfying, not because it is funny but because it is there.Jabber looked at them.At the faces.He had not seen these faces before.He had never seen these faces.And yet.There was something in the specific configuration of the man's jaw, the way the laugh sat in it, the way the expression moved, that was familiar in the specific way that faces in mirrors are familiar, the way certain angles of a known face seen from a new direction produce a recognition that arrives
Chapter 553
His chest was doing something.He looked at his hands.They were shaking.Not from the cold. Not from fear. From the specific shaking of something that has received information at a cellular level and the cells have not yet decided what to do with it.The woman who had carried the baby away had a face.He knew that face.He had known it since before he could remember knowing faces.She was the person he called mother.The white void held all of that.And Jabber stood in it with his shaking hands and the specific thing that was happening in his chest.And the black-cloaked Loki stood beside him and said nothing.Because nothing was necessary.The truth had done everything that needed doing.The silence in the white void had a specific quality now.Not the silence of absence, the silence of something present that had finished saying what it needed to say and was waiting to see what the saying had done.Jabber's hands were still shaking.He looked at them.He turned them over, looked at
Chapter 554
Inch by inch. Not with power, with the specific sustained effort of something that had decided it was going to do this thing regardless of whether the conditions were favorable."Jabber." He said again, his voice strained with the effort of speaking against the constraint. "Listen to me. Whatever you just saw, whatever that was, it is true. I won't lie to you, it is true. Your parents were real and what happened to them was real and the grief you are feeling right now is the most real thing in this space." He pushed against the constraint another inch. "But he is using the truth. He is using it the way you use a key, not to open a room that is good for you, to lock you into a room that is good for him." He looked at Jabber with the eyes that were also Jabber's eyes, carrying in them something that was not performing concern but was it. "Asta is outside. Roderick. Flora. Yuki. Mira. Elara." He said each name was like a weight placed deliberately. "People who chose to stand besi
Chapter 555
He looked at the frozen purple-cloaked Loki with the expression of someone who has addressed a minor inconvenience and is returning to the primary task.Then he looked at Jabber.On his knees.Unable to stand.He walked toward him slowly.The specific slow walk of something that had been working toward this for a very long time and was not going to rush the arrival simply because the arrival was here.……………In the dwarf forest, Asta rolled.The first Devourer's stomp had missed him by a measurement that he was choosing not to calculate because the number would not be useful information and would definitely be uncomfortable information. He came out of the roll and was already moving, not away, sideways, putting the first Devourer between him and the second one because having two large problems in the same sight line was worse than having one on either side.‘’’That was close.’’’ He said to the Emperor Dragon.‘’"Mm."’’The Emperor Dragon said.‘’’That was extremely close.’’’‘"Yes.’’
Chapter 556
He walked to the staff.He pulled it free with one hand.The golden surface went cold the moment it left the ground,the warmth of the technique leaving it the way warmth leaves something that has been removed from the source of the warmth. He looked at it for a moment, then set it down beside the chief.Across the borderlands,through the trees, from the direction of the swarm, the sound of the engagement changed.The specific change that Asta had been listening for, the change that said something had shifted in the source rather than the surface of the situation.The dwarfs were stopping.Not all at once, in waves, the soldiers in the front of the swarm first, then the ones behind them, the grey leaving the eyes in the same waves as the soldiers' bodies seemed to receive information from their own internal processes that they had been away from for some time and were now being returned to.Then falling.The exhaustion of a sustained forced march arriving all at once in bodies that had
Chapter 557 :The Spine
Nobody moved.That was the thing about the moment after the projectile hit the ground three inches from Asta's foot, the specific stillness of it, the way everything in the clearing had found a position and was holding it while the situation sorted out what category it belonged to.Asta looked up at the two figures.They looked down at him.Then they looked at each other.The look that passed between Gabimaru and Benimaru was the look of two people who had been beside each other for a very long time and had developed a communication that operated mostly below the level of words. Something was said in it. Something was received. Then both of them looked back at Asta.‘’’Emperor Dragon.’’’Asta said.''"Yes."'' The Emperor Dragon said.''Those two.''''"Yes."'' The Emperor Dragon said.''Can we take them?''A pause.The pause was longer than Asta wanted it to be.''"No."'' The Emperor Dragon said. ''"Not alone. Not the two of us against the two of them. Not right now."''Asta looked
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"Benimaru.” Gabimaru said.Benimaru looked at him."Are we going to stand here all day." Gabimaru said. "Ir are we going to do what we came here to do?"Benimaru looked at Asta again."We came here to retrieve the vessels." He said. "We will retrieve them.""Yes.” Gabimaru said. He looked back at Asta with the smile. "All of them."He launched.The speed of it, the specific speed of something that had moved at that speed so many times across so many centuries that the movement had become purely instinctive, closed the distance between the clearing's altitude and the ground in a duration that Asta's processing of the movement had not kept up with.Green flame.Dragon claw, not a technique with a name, not something that had been built and refined, the raw expression of a dragon's nature through a vessel that had been completely given over to it, the claw of something ancient and enormous expressed at human scale.Asta went backwards.Not a step backwards, a leap, full commitment
Chapter 559
"How does it feel." Gabimaru said to no one in particular, still smiling."Knowing that the thing you heard about in whatever frightened whispers people use for us, knowing that it is here, and it is looking at you, and you are much smaller than whatever you imagined?"Nobody answered him."Bugs." He said."Who know the name of the thing that is about to step on them. That is a specific kind of bug." He tilted his head. "I almost respect it."Mira was staring at him.Roderick was looking at both of them, taking them apart the way a person takes apart something they need to understand fast, cataloguing, assessing, working the angles."Why are you here.”He said. Not a question the way questions are usually structured, the specific flat demand of someone who did not have time for the longer version of things. "The vessels are under the Crimson King's protection. The treaty of the third arc forbids incursion into sovereign…""The Grand Master does not observe treaties," Benimaru sa