2026-02-18 07:23:03C134 — Training
A/N: Only two chapters today, because apparently the author’s life has decided to be inconvenient. A mass release for private readers will happen in a week or two once the mess is sorted. Try not to miss me too much, I know that is hard for you.---Kael stood there like an awkward third wheel, watching Maren and Elira embrace each other with the kind of intensity usually reserved for long lost siblings or people who survived a death cult ritual
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Chapter 152: Coffin Smile
Chapter 152: Coffin Smile "Hey, Shingen, long time no see," Kael said with deliberate ease, as though he were greeting an old academy acquaintance instead of a man wrapped in secrets thick enough to choke a cathedral. He chose the moment carefully, because timing in social warfare was as important as mana alignment in spellcasting. Pressure applied at the wrong second fizzled; pressure applied at the right second cracked stone. "...Indeed," Shingen replied in that same dry, minimal cadence, a voice that sounded like it had been rationed. The response fell flat between them, thin as parchment. Kael resisted the urge to sigh too loudly. He had faced undead abominations, divine constructs, and Maren in a lecture mood, yet this might have been the most lifeless exchange of his life. The others were still preoccupied with the gate, debating runic calibrations and dimensional stress tolerances as though they were a
C151: Sealed Table
C151: Sealed Table“So, you think calling her old lives up to your reputation as a Saint?”The accusation hung in the air like a blade that had already decided where it wanted to land.“You seem to be forgetting that I am only fourteen in this body,” Kael replied, his smile widening just enough to be insulting without becoming crude, his eyes steady as they moved from the woman in black to the rest of the figures seated around the circular table. His tone carried that polished Saintly warmth, the kind that could calm riots and bless infants, yet beneath it pulsed something sharper, something calculating.The woman remained perfectly still, frozen not by fear but by restraint, as if violence were a reflex she had trained herself not to indulge in public. Her aura, however, betrayed her. Mana coiled around her in thin, venomous strands, a distortion that tasted wrong to Kael’s senses, metallic and sour, like incense burned over a grave. Every thread
Chapter 150: Polite Insult
Chapter 150: Polite Insult“So, all I have to do is lure out the traitors, then?” Kael asked, not because he lacked clarity, but because clarity was a weapon, and repeating the objective forced it into the open where it could not pretend to be anything softer than what it was. If the mission truly was that simple, then in spirit he had already completed it, because suspicion had names now, and names were the beginning of endings.“It is,” Maren replied, her voice steady, composed, and annoyingly calm for someone orchestrating what amounted to a political exorcism inside a holy monument. “There are a few individuals I suspect, but certainty is a luxury I do not possess. That is why I need you to enter and make them reveal themselves by their own will. You can do that, can you not?”There it was again, that confidence in him, thick and suffocating and wrapped in the velvet ribbon of faith. The System hummed faintly in the back of his consciousness, attentive
Chapter 149: Golden Gluttony
Chapter 149: Golden GluttonyHealing SystemC149 Scheme[Kael's POV]"Rowan really did not disappoint, did he?" Kael asked The System with a smirk that carried both triumph and the faintest hint of disbelief, as though even now he expected the universe to lean in and confess that thirteen million was a clerical error.He lifted another lamb chop to his mouth, the meat lacquered in edible gold leaf that shimmered under the chandelier light, veins of mana threaded through it like living circuitry. The moment his teeth sank in, heat spread across his tongue. The mana did not burn. It hummed. It vibrated against his palate, a low arcane resonance that made his own internal reserves stir in appreciation.Honestly, I expected a generous commission. I did not expect thirteen million for something that barely required you to flex. Rowan is going to squeeze ten times that from the government. Possibly more. Bureaucrats panic easily."
Chapter 148: Essence And Idiots
Chapter 148: Essence And IdiotsAmanda's POV“He finally left. He sure is an idiot, huh?” Amanda let out a low chuckle, the sound threaded with relief and calculation, and finally stopped arguing with Elira.The argument had been theater, carefully choreographed inside their shared awareness long before Amanda had even stepped onto the rooftop. Every raised voice, every sharpened glance, every brittle line of accusation had been a signal disguised as conflict. The only purpose had been to push Kael away, to make him storm off with wounded pride and misplaced certainty so that he would not linger long enough to overhear what he was never meant to hear.There were several reasons for removing him from the board, but the most critical one pulsed like a red rune at the center of Amanda’s thoughts. If he stayed, she would not be able to extract the fragments of information that Elira carried like contraband beneath her calm exterior.It was fo
Chapter 147: Golden Goose
Chapter 147: Golden Goose"Excuse me?" Elira’s voice carried disbelief sharp enough to scrape stone, yet she swallowed the rest of her outrage when she met Maren’s stare, a stare that had been radiating hostility from the very second she stepped into view, a glare so cold and deliberate that even the air between them felt tightened by it."You heard me, cultist. I am offering you a choice only because you share blood with Kael. If that connection did not exist, you would already be a corpse cooling at my feet."Kael watched the verbal collision unfold with the weary patience of someone who had already survived a battlefield that morning. He rubbed at his temple, feeling phantom pressure returning like a debt collector who had memorized his address.Maren is being a little excessive, I would say, The System remarked inside his consciousness, its tone bright with mischief that did not match the tension outside.Their argument looped in circles, accusation folding into rebuttal, rebuttal
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