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Chapter 023

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Caelan arrived at The Grandeur at exactly half past midnight.

After twenty minutes of meditation on the balcony to recover the qi he had spent that night, followed by the dinner Layla had sent up right on time, he decided to sleep.

The bed still felt like a cloud.

His eyes closed.

Five minutes passed.

And then, his nose moved.

A faint scent, barely there. Not something an ordinary person could catch in a half-asleep state. But Caelan's sense of smell was not ordinary. Four years of qi training

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The Presidential Suite's balcony at three in the morning was a different place from the same balcony in daylight.No more sound of the busy city, just lights that never went dark, the occasional sound of a vehicle passing on the street below, and air that had dropped several degrees since the sun had been out.Caelan sat cross-legged there.Not a fully calm meditation. His body settled into the rhythm of meditation, but one part of his senses stayed open outward, monitoring the radius he could reach, reading air pressure and energy vibrations that might indicate something that shouldn't be there.Sleep wasn't a wise choice tonight.Three people from the mysterious sect were in the bedroom inside. The old man was very likely still at the Sterne family residence. And he was already experienced enough to understand that a night that felt calm didn't mean it was a safe one.Inside the suite, Rex had already fallen asleep on the sofa in a way that had nothing to do with the tension of the
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The living room of the Sterne family residence was still lit even though the time had already passed midnight.Light from the chandelier, never switched off before everyone in the house had gone upstairs, fell across expensive furniture, and not one of the people sitting inside was paying attention to that luxury.Daven sat on the left sofa in a way that showed he could no longer maintain a straight posture—one arm on the sofa's armrest, his eyes on a point on the floor with nothing there. Brock on the right, hands clenched on his thighs, not moving but not entirely still either, because something in the set of his jaw showed his mind was working more actively than his body let on.Cedric and Edvard sat on different sides—both already not bothering to hide that they didn't know what to hope for.Two hours.Ixia had never spent more than two hours on something that shouldn't have needed two hours.Neither had Selena.And Ethan, who in his last assignment had been able to complete an ex
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Rex followed with small steps. "So that's how it is.""Yes.""Hmm." The small child walked alongside Caelan, his expression neither judging nor neutral. "Papa, I want to say something about that sword."Caelan turned toward him."The energy inside it isn't from this world, same as me." Rex said it in a way that wasn't dramatic but wasn't light either. "And something from a different world, when it exists in a world that isn't its origin, tends to find ways to sustain itself by drawing from what's around it." His eyes went to the sword in Caelan's left hand. "And I'm worried it will start with whatever's closest."Closest.Caelan didn't need Rex to explain any further to understand what that meant."I'll keep that in mind."Rex gave one nod—serious, brief, the manner of someone who had said what needed to be said and didn't need to repeat it.At that point, Caelan crouched beside Selena.Her shirt sleeves had already soaked red at two points—not gushing, but not stopping on their own e
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On the floor near the balcony door, Ixia lay in a position she couldn't change.Her eyes looked up at Caelan still standing in the middle of the room—black sword in his hand, two unconscious people on the floor, and not a single mark of combat on his own body."This is..."Her mind tried to find the right word and couldn't."A sword technique like that—"Selena with her terrifying needle ability. Ethan whose arrogance came from the fact that he hadn't lost to a fellow sect disciple in the past three years.Both finished in a total time not enough for Ixia to exhale one full breath.And it wasn't just the speed or strength that kept her from finding the right words.It was the way that sword moved.Every swing already knew where it would end before it began. No excessive motion, no wasted anticipation, no energy expended for anything that didn't contribute to the result. Like someone who had done this thousands of times and whose body no longer needed to be commanded—just moved, and th
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The signal didn't need words.One look between Selena and Ethan, brief, measured, and both moved.Not moving in an ordinary way. The speed put out from the Fourth Realm didn't appear as motion that ordinary eyes could follow, more like two points that suddenly existed in different positions from before.Selena, as she moved, reached to her back. From there, three needles each thirty centimeters long came out—thin, gleaming, with tips already proven to pierce thin steel without needing excessive force. Not ordinary needles. Not ordinary javelins. Something in between, with cultivation energy already absorbed into the material."I need to finish this fast."That thought ran through Caelan's head while his senses were reading two directions of movement at once. "If this drags on, Dorian won't be happy about the condition of the suite."His left hand moved.From the surface of his skin, thousands of pieces of black material began flowing out. They spun, compacted, and in a time even less
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The silver blade stopped between two of Caelan's fingers, index and middle, closing like scissors on the left and right of the blade. The sword that had just shot forward at a speed that shouldn't have been catchable by anyone was now unable to move forward or backward.No blood. No loud impact sound.Just stopped.Caelan didn't look back. "You're fast." His voice came out the way of someone noting something, not someone who was under threat. "But weak."One second of silence.Then something exploded from Ixia. Not sound, but energy. Every spiritual reserve she had was released at once into the hand gripping that sword, pulling backward with full force.The blade broke free.Ixia stepped back half a pace, stabilized her position, and immediately attacked again. This time from a different direction, at higher speed than before, with an angle calculated more carefully.But Caelan was no longer in the same position.Not because he had dodged with a visible step. He just—wasn't there anym

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