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Chapter 145: The God of War
Adam Swift Pov The silence that followed the fall of the Frozen Teeth did not arrive like peace. It came as a vast, heavy emptiness, sweeping down from the white peaks like an avalanche that had spent its fury and left only smooth, unbroken snow in its wake.The war was finished.Across the northern continent, the great machine of slaughter ground to a sudden, permanent halt. The dark legionnaires, leaderless and shattered without the Lord’s will to bind them, dissolved into the mountain mists, scattering back to the lowlands without firing another arrow or raising another standard.By the second week, the foreign alliances began to withdraw.General Laurent’s Quinzerland Expeditionary Legion broke camp along the Sanguine Gorge, their high black-and-white banners dipped low in solemn, silent tribute as they marched back through the mountain passes toward their southern borders. The envoys from the coastal Free Cities departed with their wagon trains, leaving behind stores of grain, t
Chapter 144: His Brother
Adam Swift Pov The obsidian needle had found its mark.It wasn't a wide wound, nor was it surrounded by the roaring flames of a sorcerer's fire. It was a clean, merciless point of absolute finality, buried deep beneath the silver falcon crest on Ethan’s chest. The dark poison clinging to the obsidian edge had already begun to turn the skin around the entry wound an ashen, lifeless grey.I caught him as his knees gave out, dragging his broken body into my lap as I hit the blood-slick glass floor."No..."The word wasn't a roar. It was a cracked, hollow whisper that barely escaped my lips, torn straight from a chest that had already forgotten how to breathe.I pressed my single good hand over the wound, trying with frantic, pathetic desperation to plug the flow of bright crimson spilling between my fingers. But the blood was warm, slick, and moving too fast—escaping every boundary I tried to set, pooling across my gauntlet and dripping onto the dark glass beneath us. Ethan’s eyelids f
Chapter 143: The Final Strike
Adam Swift Pov Without the witch's shadow, the sanctuary fell into a terrifying, absolute clarity.There were no glowing runes floating in the air. No silver mist masking the floorboards. No kinetic shockwaves warping the space between us. Just thirty yards of polished black glass, the distant, muffled thunder of our dying army on the plateau outside, and the pale man who had orchestrated every nightmare of my life.The Lord did not retreat. He shifted his grip on his dark-iron starmetal dagger, adopting a sharp, low fencing guard. His silver eyes, deprived of their unholy glow, were cold, razor-sharp, and entirely focused on my throat.I stepped over the shattered half of Ethan's shortsword.My left arm hung uselessly at my side, bound tight in blood-soaked linen. Three of my ribs were crushed, my right thigh was sliced to the bone, and my breath tasted like hot copper. But as I raised my broadsword with my single good hand, the pain vanished into a quiet, icy void.I didn't hear th
Chapter 142: The Witch Falls
Ethan Swift Pov The void magic in my blood was no longer a fire—it was a freezing, suffocating flood that turned every breath into broken glass.I thought she was finished when I smashed her face into the stone steps. I was wrong. Moros didn't die like a mortal woman.From the pile of gray ash where her skeletal body had collapsed, a horrifying, shadowy specter erupted. Her physical form was gone, but her dark soul hung in the air—a towering, six-armed monstrosity of swirling violet smoke, pupil-less purple eyes, and jagged bone-blades that hummed with pure, unadulterated rot.While Adam’s heavy longsword clashed against the Lord’s dark-iron dagger at the center of the sanctuary, Moros turned her spectral fury entirely on me."Little rat!" her voice shrieked inside my head, a sound so loud it made dark blood stream freely from my ears. "You broke my vessel! I will drink your mind until there is nothing left but ash!"A wave of purple flames hit me square in the chest.The heat blew m
Chapter 141: The Last Battle
Adam Swift Pov The Lord did not move like a man constrained by bone and muscle.He moved like a shadow given form, his midnight-blue robes sweeping across the black-glass floor without making a sound. The dark-iron dagger in his right hand hummed with a low, terrifying pitch—an ancient blade forged from the same starmetal that lay at the heart of the mountain.When he struck, he did not sweep or thrust with a soldier's form. He delivered strikes of raw, kinetic force that warped the very air around his hand.CLANG!My heavy longsword caught his dark-iron blade in a shower of white-hot sparks, but the sheer, crushing weight of the impact slammed through my single good arm, driving me back three paces. The heel of my boot skidded across the blood-slick floor, my knees buckling under the pressure.Before I could reset my footing, the Lord pivoted, his left hand snapping forward. A concussive burst of force hit my chest plate like a flying battering ram.CRACK!My breastplate caved inwar
Chapter 140: The Invisible Enemy
Adam Swift Pov The air didn't just grow cold; it ceased to exist.The moment the Lord issued his silent order, Moros threw her skeletal hands toward the domed ceiling. She did not cast a spear of purple fire, nor did she hurl kinetic force against our battered armor. Instead, she began a low, rhythmic chant—a dry, grating hiss that sounded like dry leaves scraping across a fresh grave.From her long, blue-stained fingertips, a dense, shimmering veil of liquid silver mist erupted, pouring down the steps of the dais like heavy mercury. It washed over the polished glass floor, completely engulfing the Lord's tall, cloaked figure.As the silver mist touched him, his outline wavered, blurred, and then vanished entirely.Not a shadow remained. Not a footprint in the dust. Not even the rustle of his midnight-blue robes against the flagstones."Adam..." Ethan rasped, dropping into a low, defensive stance beside me, his shortsword held ready. His single uncorrupted gray eye darted frantically
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