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CHAPTER EIGHTY-FOUR
The burning light in Kane's eyes satisfied Solvyn in no small measure. It wasn't merely the excitement of a cripple seeing hope again, nor the gratitude of a disciple toward his benefactor. It was something fiercer, something far more valuable. That fire was hatred refined into ambition, humiliation forged into resolve. Good. He wasn't raising a sheep destined to spend its life grazing beneath another's shadow. He was raising a dragon, one capable of soaring above the heavens themselves. To nurture such a creature, one had to be at least this ruthless. Weakness bred weakness, while pain forged monsters worthy of standing at the summit. Everything he had gathered over the years, every risk he had taken and every life he had trampled upon, was ultimately for this very purpose.All the murky waters he had waded into, all the blood silently spilled behind closed doors, every connection painstakingly cultivated and every treasure accumulated over decades... who had it all been for? His bit
CHAPTER EIGHTY-THREE
ZIRCON GROVEThe manor had remained unusually quiet ever since Solvyn escorted Kane into the underground chambers a week ago. Seven days had passed, yet the atmosphere hanging over Zircon Grove had only grown heavier, as though an invisible cloud had settled over the estate. The servants still carried out their duties as usual, but their voices had unconsciously lowered whenever they passed the corridor leading to the underground entrance. Even the guards stationed nearby stood straighter than before, speaking only when absolutely necessary.No one was permitted to visit Kane.The only exception was the mysterious white-haired old man, who entered and left the underground chambers whenever he pleased, his expression unreadable from beginning to end. No servant dared question his identity openly, yet curiosity had long begun spreading through the manor like wildfire.Some claimed the old man was a renowned physician whom Solvyn had personally invited after going through tremendous effo
CHAPTER EIGHTY-TWO
By the time Theon returned to his building, it was a few minutes to four, the hour when night was thin. He could already hear the hunched old sweeper moving around in his own room at the ground floor, the sound scraping through the quiet. He carefully tested the door, fingers light on the handle. He'd oiled the hinges two days before to help his sneaking out sessions ease smoother across all factors, a small insurance he was grateful for now. Outside, he hoped the old man whom he shared the building with hadn't gotten up to pee some time in the night, and noticed the door was not properly closed. If he had locked it. Hehe, he would be in big trouble. The thought was absurd, the risk was real. Theon tried the door, gently pushing it forward. It stuck, refusing to pull open, totally unmoved despite all his efforts. His eyes widened. This old man truly woke up in the middle of the night and locked him out. He must have been confused about whether he forgot to lock the door or not, cau
CHAPTER EIGHTY-ONE
Theon instinctively clamped two fingers over his nose, trying to hold back the sneeze. A desperate last second to save himself from impending disaster. His chest and lungs heaved with the effort of holding what wasn't supposed to be held back, worsening the itch around his nose. His shoulders shook with the effort of trying to hold the sneeze and not alert the ones at the other side of the stone wall. His body almost betrayed him by refusing to cooperate. Slowly, he began to back away, his feet as silent as a mouse. Once he was far enough, he placed his face under his shirt, finally letting the sneeze out, body shaking with the effort. Nowadays, his body's impulse had become unreliable. Always betraying him at the worst possible moments. The sneeze was coming again, this time crueler and more forceful than the first. He held his breath, trying to hold back. It was sheer agony. He backed further away, then his foot stepped on a dried twig. His heart froze, breath pausing, eyes goi
CHAPTER EIGHTY
Theon stopped cold in his tracks, his brows knitting together in confusion as every instinct urged him to freeze. What the hell was going on? Wasn't this route supposed to be old, abandoned, and no longer in use? From everything the system had told him, this hidden passage should have been forgotten by history itself, left to decay beneath the academy for centuries without another soul remembering it existed.The paths inside were overgrown with weeds, their roots forcing themselves through cracks in the ancient stone as though trying to reclaim the tunnel for nature. Dust lay thick over the uneven ground, cobwebs hung lazily from the ceiling, and the stale scent of age lingered heavily in the air. Judging by the state of the place, no one should have walked through here in years. So how come there were people already using his potential secret exit before him? The contradiction immediately put him on guard.If there were other people familiar with this route, then using it in the fut
CHAPTER SEVENTY-NINE
Theon moved like a phantom between the trees, using the footwork from his storm dragon twelve moves to stay as silent as a shadow, each move perfected from hours of practice. His eyes were sharp, ears even sharper, and the sharpness was survival. Knowing the kind of eccentric system that was bound to him, and how it seemed to enjoy sending him on emergency missions, he figured he needed to put a few things in place to avoid being taken by surprise, and the planning was a necessity. According to the calibration rules of the system, the missions get harder the higher you go, and the rule was cruel. The system might wake up crazy one day and decide to send him on missions outside the academy, and when that day comes, he doesn't want to run around like a headless chicken. The image was unacceptable. He had actually been thinking about it for a while before the system brought it up. Normally, he was the kind of person who had foresight and saw most problems coming before they even made
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