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INTO THE SHATTERED PEAKS
The night was on his side. Draven slipped out of the Verdant Spring Enclave like a shadow. The new power in his body made his movements almost unnatural. He did not take a skiff or the main gates. He simply walked to the edge of the courtyard, looked down at the dizzying drop into the Wastes, and stepped off.He fell for a hundred feet before sending his Qi downward. His flight felt different now, smoother, faster, requiring almost no conscious effort. The Chaos Avatar passive made the turbulent night air feel like a welcoming current instead of resistance. He flew low and fast, a dark streak against darker earth, following the mental map Selene had placed in his mind.The journey to the Shattered Cloud Peaks took most of the night. As dawn's grey light touched the jagged summits, he saw why the place was feared.These were not mountains. They were the shattered teeth of a dead god. Stone spires leaned at impossible angles. Chasms vented plumes of fog that crackled with static electri
FORGING A NEW VESSEL
The Spire’s familiar shape offered no comfort as the skiff docked. The mission had been a success, but for Draven, it was also a warning. His Chaotic Seed was no longer unknown. The Conclave now understood its value in controlling chaos. He had become a tool, and tools are used until they break or until something better is found.He needed to be more than a tool. He needed to be irreplaceable.Back in the quiet heart of his enclave, the pressure was tangible. Kieran’s whispered warnings about moves from the Flame-Soul Patriarch weighed heavily. His current strength was visible to enemies. To surpass it, he could not just learn new techniques. He had to rebuild the very instrument of his power: his body.Draven sat cross-legged, shutting out the world. His mind dove inward, accessing the System’s deepest repository. The Physique Refinement Sovereign Tier section glowed with a single, daunting option.[ Primordial Chaos Body (Seed Stage) ][ Cost: 4,000 Strife Points. ][ Description: I
THE HUNGRY SHADOWS
They moved toward the rift as a tight group. Draven’s bubble of stable Qi was their only protection. The rainbow-colored energy ahead shimmered and warped the air, making the ground underfoot feel soft and unreliable, like walking on rotten wood.“Energy signatures are spiking,” Selene said, her voice tight as she scanned her slate. “Something’s moving at the edge of the distortion field. Multiple somethings. Life signs are jumbled. The rift’s energy is mutating them.”A low, chittering growl came from their left. From behind a jagged outcropping of blackened rock, a creature appeared. It looked like a Sand-Stalker, the lean six-legged predators common to the Expanse, but now patches of its carapace glowed with unstable violet light. One of its front claws had turned into a twisted crystalline spike that hummed with chaotic energy.“Contact left!” Goran shouted, shifting his stance. The creature shimmered, and a slightly transparent copy of itself lunged from the right.An illusion or
THE SECOND TEST
Three days passed, and Draven’s life fell into a strict, unrelenting routine. The mornings belonged entirely to the Ascendant Cycle. He stood alone on the training ground, sweat pouring down his face, muscles trembling, as he tried to maintain the rising spiral of elemental energy. Most attempts failed almost immediately. Sometimes the spiral unraveled after just a few seconds. Occasionally, it held for a half-breath of time, teasing him with the feeling of power running perfectly through his body.Each attempt left him exhausted, gasping for air, but every failure also taught him something. He adjusted the timing, refined the flow, and pushed his Qi a fraction further. By the third day, his mastery had climbed from one percent to three percent. The progress was tiny, but it was real. The spiral felt less fragile, the energy inside him more connected. And each time it held, even for a moment, his heart raced with the addictive thrill of total elemental harmony.It was dangerous how
THE FIRST LESSON
The Sunheart Stone glowed in Draven’s palm like a small captured sun. Its warmth was steady, not burning, but alive. It soaked into his skin and bones, reminding him that he finally had fuel. The cube rested on a stone table nearby, quiet and dark, no whisper, no movement. But its lesson was still fresh in his mind, heavy with promise and danger.Somewhere beyond the enclave walls, Kieran was watching the political currents for him. Somewhere deeper in the Spire, powerful people were thinking about how to take what he now owned.But none of that mattered yet.First, he had to learn.Draven spent the rest of the evening on the training ground. When the sky darkened and the first stars appeared, he kept going. When night deepened and the air grew cold, he was still there. When dawn finally painted the stone walls with pale light, he had not left.Sweat soaked his clothes. His breathing came hard and uneven. The stone beneath his feet was marked with scorch lines, shallow cracks, and str
THE CUBE’S WHISPER
The enclave was silent.Not the tense silence of danger or the heavy silence of enemies nearby, but a deep, settled quiet that pressed gently against Draven’s ears. After the chaos of the Conclave, it felt almost unreal. No watching eyes. No hidden pressure. Just stone walls, soft light, and his own breathing.Draven stood in the center of the room, the cube resting in his palm.It felt heavier than before.Not in weight, but in meaning.He closed his fingers around it once, then placed it carefully on the low wooden table in front of him. The smoky crystal surface reflected the soft glow of the room’s lightstones. Whatever secrets it held had already shaken the Spire. And now it was his responsibility alone.Draven sat cross legged and straightened his back. He slowed his breathing, letting his mind settle. Before touching the cube again, there was something that could not be ignored.The System.The mission was finished.He focused inward, letting his awareness sink past muscle and
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