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"Go," said Caelan, "and tell your Supreme Leader he's welcome to come here anytime to demand an explanation." His eyes didn't move from Tamashi. "I'll be waiting.""The arrogance on you." Tamashi ground her teeth. "Just because you're a little strong you think you're the greatest thing in the world. You'll regret this.""We'll see." A brief pause. "And pass this along as well—I feel insulted. The Sacred Sword Sect sent only two weak representatives here, and one of them doesn't even know how to behave properly in someone else's space. If your Supreme Leader wants to settle this, I'll be more than happy to welcome him."Tamashi didn't answer.Not because there was nothing she wanted to say—but because it was already very clear that no words that could come out of her mouth tonight would move her position in this room to anything better than where it already was.She then helped Baruga to his feet, led him toward the door, and they left.Tamashi would tell the Supreme Leader everything,
Chapter 261
The next second, Baruga's scream filled the room.Not a scream with any shape—no words in it, no threat, no half-spoken sentence. This was the sound of someone discovering pain that had never existed in their reference before, arriving from a direction no calculation had prepared them for.Then the sound stopped.Not because the pain stopped.Caelan's left hand rose to waist height, and the spiritual energy coming from his fingers sealed Baruga's mouth in a way that needed no physical contact to work. What remained was only groaning—held back, forced inward, which only made the pressure on that deeply red face more visible.Baruga's face was no longer holding the mixed expression from before.Now there was only one—pain that had taken over everything, a red coming not from embarrassment but from the hard effort of holding back something that couldn't be held back.Throughout the room, no one made a sound.The representatives from the White Cloud Sect, the Fire Lotus Sect, the Pure Jad
Chapter 260
Baruga didn't react right away.One second passed, and inside that one second an unusual process was running in his head.Two fingers?Two fingers from this stranger were holding his sword blade—a blade known throughout the entire Sacred Sword Sect as something that had never stopped midway unless its wielder chose to stop it.How the hell is this possible?!Even if he hadn't used his full strength, being stopped this easily...He was deeply shocked. But that shock was nothing compared to what came next.Baruga tried to pull his sword back.It didn't move.He pulled harder, in the way of someone certain the first attempt had simply needed a little more force to produce a different result.Still nothing.His face began to change color—not gradually, but quickly, a red born from the combination of physical exertion producing nothing and something far deeper than that. Something that had never existed before in all the fights and all the encounters that had shaped how he moved through th
Chapter 259
The same man who had taken the mysterious black sword from the Sterne Family's hands, the one their Supreme Leader had ordered them not to pick a fight with.Of course, that was because he had a mysterious toddler at his side.And that toddler had walked into this room with him.In the center section, three figures in soft green robes—a color fitting the name of the sect wearing them. The Pure Jade Sect's robes carried no heavy ornamentation, only thin lines like jade cracks running along the fabric's edges, with buttons of a material that was clearly no ordinary metal.Two men around their forties with postures that were patterned—trained to appear neutral, and managing it—and one woman in her thirties whose eyes when they looked at something showed that neutral for her wasn't the product of training but simply how she was.And on the side closest to the entrance—two figures from the Sacred Sword Sect.The first was a woman with long black hair that fell loose in the way of hair care
Chapter 258
They arrived at the Draethos Mountains the following evening, at exactly ten o'clock.The forest below was already familiar to both of them—the same canopy, the same darkness, the same air with its way of being different from Velmont's air. They didn't take the main path this time. There was no need.At the massive gate, Bai Li was already waiting.Behind the old man stood several ordinary Elders and two Grand Elders—all with postures that made it clear tonight's arrival was different from Caelan's first time here just a few days ago."Supreme Leader." Bai Li bowed. "Please follow us. They're already waiting."Caelan nodded.---The Eternal Black Dragon Sect's guest pavilion stood on the western side of the complex—separated from the main buildings by a distance that clearly communicated this was not part of the sect's core, but wasn't something built halfheartedly either.The building was large in the way of a building that knew its function—not to impress its occupants, but to give
Chapter 257
Caelan returned to Aurelian.The day moved like the days before it—patients came in one by one, each bringing their complaint, each leaving in a different condition from when they had walked in.Some came with exhausted faces after years of going from doctor to doctor with no results, some came with wrong diagnoses from other places, some came because they had nowhere else to go.All of them went home healed.At eleven at night, Caelan turned off the lights in his room.---Dinner that evening was a little different.Layla brought the trolley as usual, but this time she didn't rush to leave. Caelan invited her to sit, and Layla accepted in the way of someone who no longer needed much convincing to do it.They ate as three—Caelan, Layla, and Rex sitting on the other side of the table with his milk carton and the expression of someone very pleased with the development unfolding in front of him.The conversation flowed without a plan—from small things, to things a little larger, to laugh
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