All Chapters of ELARION : The Echo Breaker: Chapter 61
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CHAPTER 61: Ambition Above The Clouds
The Kagane sky was covered by a giant iron shadow.From behind the dull glass of the command ship's observation room that smelled of coal smoke, the city looked like a helpless body waiting to be dissected. No screams could reach this height. Only the small movements of humans like ants down below, looking too calm for a city that had just lost its king last night.Valerius stood at the very front.His massive body was wrapped in a trench coat made of thick wax-coated leather, supported by thick black wrought iron armor. A pigskin gas mask with an active charcoal tube filter hung heavily around his neck. His hands rested on the steel railing. His gaze was sharp, slicing through the narrow streets below."They are not panicking."Valerius's voice was low. It sounded more like a tactical report than an opinion.Behind him, Varian did not answer immediately. The Imperial Archduke wore a neat velvet cloak without a single speck of dust. He poured wine into a crystal glass, swirling the re
CHAPTER 62: The Price of a Vision
The corridor leading to the Secret Library of the Cloud Pagoda felt too silent.There were no echoes of battle here. There were no death screams from the streets. There was no clinking of steel. Only the sound of footsteps muffled by the old carpet and the dim light of lanterns hanging low, as if even the fire was reluctant to burn brightly in this place.Arok walked in front. His steps were stable. Not fast. Not hesitant.Behind him, Kaida followed at a distance of half a step. Her eyes were sharp, calculating, weighing every probability."This city will die." Kaida's voice finally broke the silence. Flat. Unemotional, exactly like an administrative report.Arok did not turn his head. "Indeed."Kaida narrowed her eyes slightly. "I am not speaking using metaphors, Arok.""Neither am I."Their steps continued. A few seconds of silence stretched again."You intentionally let them in," Kaida continued, her voice beginning to press. "The empty alleys. The open gates. The seemingly unguard
CHAPTER 63: Genocide
The Kagane sky no longer had the color blue. Pale green vapor spewed from the iron hulls of the ships hovering up there, rolling slowly swallowing the pagoda peaks and creeping down to the cobblestone streets.The smell of sulfur and rusted metal immediately pressed the dawn air. The fog descended calmly, too calmly for something that brought death.Someone at the crossroads began to cough. His voice was dry, then turned into a series of violent convulsions. The gate guard fell to his knees, gripping his own neck until his nails tore his skin.His eyes bulged, the blood vessels in the whites of his eyes ruptured and streamed thick red tears. No screams came out. Only foam bubbles mixed with blood seeping from between his teeth.The man collapsed to the side, while the liquid from inside his own chest drowned him slowly.Behind the closed walls of the wooden houses, the sound of nails scratching on the floor began to echo. There were no explosions. Only the sound of hoarse gasps and th
CHAPTER 64: Nothing Left
The green fog finally caught up to them.At first, the fog only looked thin. It crept slowly between the cobblestone crevices and infiltrated through the cracks of the wooden taverns like morning mist lost from the mountains. The vapor did not descend with anger or explosions. It descended with absolute patience, clinging to the surfaces of walls and the ground like something that possessed a life of its own.Then, someone at the end of the alley coughed.Once. Twice. Then the dry cough turned into a series of convulsive sounds. It sounded like there was a thick boiling liquid inside the person's throat.The sound of a body falling with a thud onto the ground was heard, followed by the sound of nails scratching the cobblestones in a panic.Ganda immediately halted his steps. His survival instinct reacted far faster than his mind. He took a very short breath and held it at the bottom of his lungs, as if his own body recognized that the air around him had been cursed.The smell of the a
CHAPTER 65: All That Is Too Late
Ganda did not move from his leaning position. His dim gray eyes remained tightly locked toward the turn of the dark corridor in front of him.His breathing flowed softly. Very softly for a living human. The effect of the nerve oil seeping into his shoulder made his heart rhythm pound in long, unsettling intervals. His blood flowed coldly, suppressing any form of panic that should have arisen.Sora also froze where she sat. The soldier's combat reflexes were still working in response to a threat, even though her own body was nearly collapsing due to the gas poison tearing her lungs. Sora's trembling hand instinctively felt the sword hilt at her waist.That sound appeared again.The sound of small steps stepping on a puddle of wastewater. The steps were withheld, dragged slowly, and full of caution. The sound pattern was too ordered for a sewer rat. Those were human steps.Ganda shifted his body half a step forward. Just a little. That movement was enough to block the line of sight from
CHAPTER 66: Legacy Of The Takumi Clan
They had no other choice but to descend further into the darkness.The sound of iron-plated boots on the surface of Kagane's streets could be heard increasingly often piercing the stone ceiling of the sewer. The rhythm of the Aurellian sweeper troops' steps was incredibly ordered and tireless. The sound echoed too close to be ignored.Ganda walked carrying Sora in front of his chest. He used both his arms to support Sora's back and knees.Sora's body was very weak. Her breathing was heavily muffled behind the charcoal cloth pad Elara had tied to her face. Every drawn breath Sora took sounded like boiling liquid, a broken machine forced to keep working against its own destruction.Elara walked leading in front. Her free right hand felt the wet stone wall on the side of the corridor. Her calloused fingertips swept away dirt and moss as sharply as a scalpel, reading the texture of the stone surface with the meticulousness of an architect.Niko walked at the very back. The merchant's hand
CHAPTER 67: The Bell Of Silence
They found the room unintentionally.The narrow underground catacomb corridor suddenly widened, forming a low dome-shaped stone room. The air inside felt much drier. There was no wastewater flow passing over this stone floor.The sound of the Aurellian troops' boots could no longer be heard from above.For the first time since Kagane city was drenched in poison and slowly died, the world felt silent.Ganda stepped in first. The man slowly lowered Sora's body to the dry floor, then leaned his back against the curved stone wall. Ganda's right hand movements looked stiff.Sora did not react immediately when put down.The soldier's breathing still sounded heavy behind the charcoal cloth pad. However, its rhythm already felt more stable.Elara immediately dropped to her knees beside Sora.Her free hand worked quickly. She checked the vibration in Sora's chest, measured her breathing pressure, observed the returning skin color, and cleaned the dried blood at the corner of her lips.A few se
CHAPTER 68: Shadows From The Iron Dam
The dome room was not truly silent.It was only waiting.Ganda felt it first. Long before his hearing caught anything, the warning crept from inside his bones.
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CHAPTER 69: Agreement In The Dark
The narrow corridor began to break down. Not because the stone walls of the Takumi Clan were collapsing, but because the flesh barrier was destroyed. The swollen mutan