2025-12-30 07:06:49The transition was not a roar, but a silence.
On the rooftops of the Second Ward, Elara Vance crouched low, her fingers digging into the soot-stained shingles.
Her heart, usually a steady, cynical rhythm, was drumming a frantic beat against her ribs.
She was a creature of the periphery, a ghost that lived in the corners of other people’s lives, but today, the periphery was being erased.
Below her, the Third Knights were retreating. They moved like men waking
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Chapter 94: A Prince Return
Theron was standing in the aftermath of a destructive battle when the double doors groaned open.A squad of First Knights rushed in, weapons drawn, having finally recovered from the initial blitz. They stopped dead, staring at the carnage, at the unconscious Vice-Commander, and the standing corpse of the Third Commander."My Lord!" a captain shouted, rushing forward. "We heard the blast! Is the intruder—""The intruder is dealt with," Theron said, stepping past Jinto's body without looking back. "He was a traitor. And he died like one.""Shall we... remove the body, sir?"Theron paused at the bottom of the stairs.He looked at Aelia, who was being lifted onto a stretcher by two medics."No," Theron said. "Leave him. Let him stand there. Let him rot on his feet. It will serve as a reminder to anyone else who thinks they can walk into my house uninvited."He pointed a gloved finger at Aelia."Take the Vice-Commander
Chapter 93: The Last Stand
Jinto Kyoran walked toward the stairs, his boots squelching in the mud and blood that coated the immaculate marble floor of the atrium.He moved with a slow, deliberate heaviness, like a man wading through deep water, his scarred chest heaving with every breath.The mana pressure radiating from him had settled into a dense, suffocating aura that made the very air taste of rust.Lord Commander Theron waited on the landing, looking down at his old friend with an expression that sat somewhere between pity and annoyance.He hadn't drawn his sword. He hadn't moved a muscle while Aelia tore the atrium apart."You look terrible, Jinto," Theron observed, his voice smooth and carrying effortlessly over the sound of the rain pounding against the shattered windows. "You really should have kept the cloak on. It hid the mileage.""I earned every mile," Jinto rasped, stopping at the base of the stairs. He wiped blood from his mouth with the back of his ha
Chapter 92: Weight of a Fist
The rain in the First Knight’s courtyard evaporated before it could hit the ground.Aelia Solara stood in the centre of a crater of her own making, her golden aura boiling the storm clouds above.She didn't look like a knight anymore.With her helmet gone, her red hair whipped around her face like a crown of blood, and her eyes were twin red suns that promised nothing but incineration."You want to fight, old man?" she screamed, her voice distorted by the sheer volume of mana pouring out of her core. "Then let’s fight!"She slammed her foot down, causing the mud around her to flash-harden into ceramic glass from the heat.Raising her Arming Sword and the Sun-Piercer spear simultaneously, wielding the spear in her left hand and the sword in her right—a dual-wield style forbidden by the orthodox teachings of the Order because it was deemed too reckless.She didn't care about orthodoxy. She cared about annihilation."Solar Flare!"She swung both weapons in a cross-slash. Two arcs of cond
Chapter 91: The Saint and the Drunkard 2
Aelia swung her sword in a massive overhead arc, putting her entire body into the blow.Jinto stepped aside, letting the blade smash into the floor, shattering a heavy stone tile.As Aelia struggled to wrench the blade free from the crater she had made, Jinto stepped onto the flat of her sword, pinning it to the ground.He looked her in the eye. "You are strong, Aelia. Maybe stronger than I am. But you are fighting with your eyes closed."He kicked her in the chest.The blow sent her stumbling back, relinquishing her grip on the sword. She staggered, gasping for air, unarmed.Jinto kicked the sword away, sending it skittering across the floor toward Theron’s feet."Pick it up," Jinto commanded, pointing to a decorative display of weapons on the wall. "Pick up another weapon. Or surrender."Aelia looked at her empty hands.She looked at Theron, who was watching her with an unreadable expression. She felt the shame b
Chapter 90: The Saint and the Drunkard
The air in the atrium had grown heavy, saturated with a mana pressure that tasted of ozone and old dust.The five defeated lieutenants lay groaning on the cracked marble, their bodies serving as a grisly perimeter for the duel that was about to unfold.Jinto Kyoran stood with his feet shoulder-width apart, his posture loose and deceptively sloppy. He held his chipped, rusted blade loosely at his side, the tip hovering just inches above the floor, swaying slightly as if moved by a breeze only he could feel.Opposite him, Vice-Commander Aelia Solara was a statue of golden steel. Her Shield of Faith had faded, but the holy light clinging to her armour remained, casting long, sharp shadows against the pillars.She held her arming sword in a high guard, the blade perfectly still, pointing directly at Jinto’s throat.Lord Commander Theron watched from the top of the stairs, his hands clasped behind his back.His expression was one of mild
Chapter 89: Aelia's Strength
She drew her Arming Sword. The steel sang."Formation Delta!" Eadric commanded.The lieutenants shifted.They weren't just attacking; they were combining elements.Theobald lashed his chain around Wulfric's metal shield.Wulfric charged again, but this time, his shield was electrified, a wall of sparking death.Aelia couldn't block it. The electricity would cook her inside her armour.She retreated, her boots sliding on the marble.Baldwin appeared behind her again, slashing at her hamstrings. Aelia parried behind her back—a blind block—but the dagger caught the edge of her greave, slicing through the leather strap.Her leg armour loosened."She's slow on the left!" Baldwin shouted."Then freeze it!" Eadric yelled.The tactician slammed his hands onto the ground.Spell: Glacial Tomb.The moisture in the air condensed instantly.Ice crystals erupted fr
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