All Chapters of The Return of the wilderness God : Chapter 81
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The Mentor's Ultimatum
The golden light from the override key faded, and the foreign fleets disappeared over the horizon. The silence that followed was heavy, filled with unspoken questions. I looked at Master Kenneth, standing there in his dark scholar's cloak, the key still glowing faintly in his hand."Soren," he said, his voice soft but steady. "We need to talk about what comes next."I lowered my black blade. "What comes next is we rebuild. We help the people who survived. We start over."Kenneth shook his head slowly. "It is not that simple. The foreign fleets are retreating now, but they will return. They will regroup and come back stronger. The only way to ensure lasting peace is to use the override key to destroy them permanently. To wipe their fleets from the sky."I stared at him. "You want to destroy them? All of them?""I want to protect this continent," he said. "The key gives us that power. With it, you could rule as a god. You could reshape the world in y
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The Simple Answer
The sound of Kenneth's body hitting the stone floor echoed through the room like a thunderclap.I stood there, my fist still clenched, my breath coming in short sharp bursts. The master override key was no longer in his hand. It had slipped from his fingers when I struck him, spinning through the air before clattering against the floor. The golden light flickered once, twice, and then the key shattered into a dozen pieces, scattering across the stone like broken glass.Valerie moved fast. She dropped to her knees and gathered the fragments in her hands, her fingers working quickly to arrange them on the floor. "The key is broken, but the energy is still active. I can use the residual power to jumpstart the planetary entity's natural defensive shields."Kenneth pushed himself up on his elbows, blood still dripping from his lip. "That is not possible. The shields were designed to be activated only by the core. Without the key, they cannot function."Valerie
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The Power Vacuum
The fire crackled softly in the hearth, casting warm shadows across the wooden walls of the cottage. I sat at the table, my hands wrapped around a chipped ceramic mug, watching the steam rise from the hot tea inside. The smell of roasted root vegetables filled the small room, mixing with the scent of pine and wood smoke.It was strange, sitting here. Strange and wonderful and terrifying all at once.Two months had passed since we destroyed the core. Two months since the foreign fleets retreated and the green shield went up across the sky. Two months since the world had changed forever.My mother was at the stove, stirring a pot of stew with a wooden spoon. Her hair was streaked with grey now, and there were lines around her eyes that had not been there before. But she was alive. She was home.My father sat across from me at the table, his hands resting on the worn oak surface. He was older too, his face weathered by years of hard labor and harder choices.
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The Boreas Delegation
The cold hit me like a wall the moment we stepped off the transport ship. It was not the familiar mountain cold I had grown up with. This was something deeper, something that seeped through my coat and into my bones like icy water.Valerie pulled her hood tighter around her face. "The collapse of the sacrificial machines has triggered an artificial ice age. The automated heat generators that used to keep this continent warm are all dead."I looked out at the frozen wasteland stretching before us. The sky was a pale grey, heavy with clouds that promised more snow. The ground was covered in a thick layer of ice, cracked and uneven. In the distance, I could see the remains of what had once been a city, its towers now just jagged spires of frozen stone.Tomas, the young messenger boy, stood beside me, his thin coat doing little to protect him from the biting wind. "This is the edge of my village," he said, his voice trembling. "We used to have fields here. Crops. No
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