All Chapters of Wielder Of The Dragon Flame : Chapter 571
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Chapter 570
Then she smiled.It came onto her face slowly, the unhurried appearance of an expression that was growing from something real, something that was sitting in her chest and was choosing now to show itself on her face. Dark. Satisfied. The smile of someone who holds a piece of information and knows exactly how the piece lands.She looked at Eren."They're on duty right now.” She said.…………The word ‘’right now’’ sat in the air.Eren's eyes went wide.Not the slow widening of surprise, the fast, total widening of someone who has received a piece of information and has immediately understood every implication of it simultaneously, the full picture arriving at once rather than assembling piece by piece.He looked at the forest.At the treeline three miles away.At the dark between the trees that led to the clearing where Asta and Mira and Roderick and Yuki had been fighting.Where Gabimaru and Benimaru had been fighting.Where Gabimaru and Benimaru were,according to the smile on Kyx's face
Chapter 571
The ground had no choice but to accept it, cracking outward from the point in jagged lines, a crater opening from the center like a mouth, dirt and stone and root material flung upward and outward in the ring of displaced earth that surrounds the point of catastrophic impact.The smoke came up with it.Not fire smoke, earth smoke. The dust and the particulate and the debris of everything in the impact radius being violently relocated, rising fast and thick and spreading across the clearing in a cloud that had weight and density and turned the afternoon light inside the clearing from clear to the specific dirty gray of disturbed earth.It was everywhere.The smell of it hit before the sight of anything cleared, cold dirt and broken root and the metallic edge of disturbed stone, the smell of something deep in the ground that hadn't been surface-level until thirty seconds ago. Sharp in the nose. Dense on the tongue.Roderick was coughing.He had his forearm up across his face, the insti
Chapter 572:The Dark Dragon of Mischief
Asta hadn't moved.He was still on the ground where he'd landed from the dive,sitting, both hands flat behind him in the dirt, the position of someone who had not yet received the instruction to stand up because the part of the brain that issues those instructions was currently occupied with something else entirely.His eyes were still wide.The purple was still there in Jabber's eyes. Still glowing. Still looking at him with that smile,that dark, patient, settled smile that had no business being on a face he knew.Yuki was a step behind him.She was looking at Jabber. At the eyes. At the smoke still settling from the crater. Her voice, when it came out, was low, the specific low of someone who is saying something they do not want to be true and the not-wanting-it-to-be-true is sitting in every syllable."This can't be." She said.She said it to herself more than anyone else. Her hand had gone to her arm, the unconscious grip of fingers around her own forearm, the self-anchoring gest
Chapter 573
He said the title the way you say something you find faintly ridiculous and are reporting rather than endorsing.Jabber's eyes moved to him.Slow.The purple settled on Benimaru's face and it sat there and it did not shift and it did not blink and the thing behind it was not the thing Benimaru's flat expression had been built to handle, because the flat expression was a tool for managing situations and the thing behind those purple eyes was not a situation it was a presence and the presence was old and it was cold and it communicated something in the looking that was not language.Benimaru's mouth closed.He had not decided to close it. It closed on its own, the involuntary response of a mouth that had said something and had received a response that was not a word and was understood anyway. He looked straight ahead. Said nothing more.Gabimaru made a sound.A laugh, short, genuine, the specific laugh of someone who has watched something they found funny and could not help the response
Chapter 574
What the saying of it commits to. What the not-saying of it communicates. The specific calculus of a moment where the words you choose are also the ground you are choosing to stand on.He thought about Jabber.About the face in front of him wearing something that was not Jabber's expression.About the purple eyes that had never been in that face before today.He felt the Emperor Dragon in him, the warmth of it, the age of it, the specific presence of something that had been carrying this particular fight for much longer than Asta had been alive.He set his jaw."Yeah.” He said.His voice came out even. Not without effort, it came out even because he put the effort into making it even, and the effort was visible to anyone who was looking closely enough."Do you have a problem with that?"Loki looked at him.Something moved through Jabber's expression, not across it, through it, the internal movement of something running several things simultaneously and not landing cleanly on any of t
Chapter 575
She knew the rhythm.She knew the weight of those footsteps.“‘Asta…"His name came out of her before the decision to say it had fully formed, pulled out by the sound and the laugh and the purple glow she could see moving between the trees at the forest's edge, the shield blade still tracking, still following, the thing Loki had built to chase not having stopped chasing.She was already moving when she said it.Her feet found the direction and committed to it without ceremony, no pause, no assessment of the situation, the clean forward movement of someone who has heard something and has decided that what comes next is going toward it. Her axes were in her hands. The flame on them had come up automatically, the fire knowing what the hands were preparing for even before the head had finalized the plan.She hit the tree line…And stopped.Not because she chose to.Because Gabimaru was there.He appeared the way things appear when they have moved faster than the eye allocated processing
Chapter 576
"You two.”She said.She said it quietly."You asked for this."She moved.Not the fast, measured movement of someone executing a technique with structure behind it. The forward commitment of someone who has made one decision and has put everything behind the making of it,weight, speed, flame, the full sum of what she was carrying in both hands aimed at the two figures in front of her with the specific intensity of someone who was not fighting for the fight but fighting because there was something behind the fight that mattered more than the fight.Gabimaru watched her come.He looked at Benimaru."Here she comes." He said.Benimaru was already looking at her."Yes." He said.Flat. Patient."Here she comes."……………The forest was darker further in.Six miles from the clearing,or close to it, the distance estimated rather than measured, the counting that happens in the body during a run rather than in the head, the body knowing roughly how far it has gone by the weight in the legs an
Chapter 577
The voice came from directly behind his right ear.Not from below. Not from the branches to his left or his right or from anywhere that would have required something to climb or approach through the space he had been watching.From behind his ear.Intimate. Close. The specific proximity of something that had positioned itself in the space just past the edge of his peripheral vision and had been there long enough to wait for the right moment."Found you."………….''''''Asta's blood went cold.''''''''''''Not metaphorically, the actual physical sensation of the body redirecting resources away from the surface and extremities when the central nervous system receives a specific category of input, the cold that lives in the chest and the stomach and the space between the shoulder blades.''''''''''''He did not move.''''''''''''For one full second, one complete, terrible, endless second,he did not move.''''''''''''The purple glow came over his right shoulder.''''''''''''Slow.''''''''''''J
Chapter 578
"Jabber." He said. "I don't know how much of this is getting through. I don't know how deep in there you are or how much you can feel from where you are." He paused. Swallowed. "But I know you are in there. Loki told me you are in there. And that means somewhere in that body you are listening to this, even if he doesn't want you to."Loki's jaw tightened."Shut…""You are not this.” Asta said.He wasn't looking at Loki anymore. He was looking at the face, the same face, looking for the same face through everything that was sitting on top of it. The same jaw. The same set of the brow he had seen across a meal table three nights ago and across the training yard and across every early morning when they had both been up too early for different reasons and had sat together without talking because neither of them had needed to."You are not dark and you are not mischief and you are not whatever Loki wants to use your body for. That is not you." He felt something tighten in his own ch
Chapter 579
The purple in his eyes flared, bright, sudden, the desperate brightness of something fighting a rapid compression, the light of something that does not want to go back to where it is being sent. His hands moved, trying to reach the rope, trying to find the edge of it, the beginning of it, anything that could be pulled or broken or addressed…"''What is this…''"The sealing marks activated.The light of them moved, each mark on each coil lighting in sequence, the sequence running from the first coil to the last in under a second, the whole rope going from glowing to burning with the specific white-gold of a seal at full function.Loki's legs went.Not slowly, immediately, the body dropping from the position of standing to the position of not standing in the single instant when the sealing took the thing that had been keeping the body standing and removed it from the equation. Jabber's body folded and hit the ground and did not catch itself because there was nothing left inside it at t