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Chapter 10: The First Crack in Fate
Kael's POV Three months into my employment at the Silvermane estate, I began to notice something strange.Small things at first. A training dummy that should have broken under Aldric's strike remained intact. A sparring match where he slipped on wet grass at the exact moment I attacked, giving me an opening I shouldn't have had. A Scripture instructor who arrived late to our lesson, mumbling about unexpected obstacles that delayed him.Nothing dramatic. Nothing that couldn't be explained by coincidence.But I'd lived eight years as an Error, eight years of fate actively working against my existence, and I'd learned to recognize when the universe's attention turned toward someone. These weren't random incidents. They were corrections, adjustments, the Script trying to write reality back toward its intended narrative.The problem was, they were working in my favor.It started making sense during a tactical lesson with Master Chen, the estate's strategy instructor. He was teaching us ab
Chapter 9: Bonds of Convenience
Kael's POV Two weeks went by before I showed up for my first official day as Aldric's practice partner.The Silvermane compound perched atop Ashenvale, a large complex that seemed irretrievably out of place amidst the frontier town's ramshackle structures. High stone walls surrounded manicured gardens, training grounds, and a manor house that might not have been out of place in the capital. Aldric's father had clearly been some kind of fallen nobleman, banished to the frontier for political misdeeds he never discussed.Gate guards checked my documents, official records indicating that I worked for House Silvermane, before letting me in. I felt their eyes on my back as I passed, aggressive and resentful. Everyone knew what I was now. The Error who'd lived through Scriptbeast mauling by sheer dumb chance and a Hero's intervention.Aldric greeted me in the central training area, far too lively for the early morning. Behind him, standing with stern evaluation, was a man who could only be
Chapter 8: The Cost of Existence
Kael's POV I woke three days later in a room I didn't recognize.Sunlight streamed through a window, painfully bright after the darkness I'd been floating in. My entire body felt like one massive bruise, and when I tried to move my left arm, white-hot agony shot through me so intensely I gasped."Don't move, you idiot." My father's voice, rough with exhaustion and relief.I turned my head, slowly, and saw him sitting in a chair beside the bed. He looked terrible. His eyes were red-rimmed, his face unshaven, his clothes rumpled like he'd been wearing them for days. Which, I realized, he probably had been."Father…""You nearly died." His voice cracked. "The healer said if Aldric had found you five minutes later, you would have bled out in those woods."Memory returned in fragmented pieces. The Scriptbeasts. The fight. Aldric's golden sword cutting through shadow."Where am I?""The healer's house. Garrick paid for your treatment." My father leaned forward, taking my good hand in both
Chapter 7: Shadows in the Woods
Kael's POV The Scriptbeast attack came on a cold autumn evening, two weeks after my victory against Marcus.I was returning from the training yard alone, my father had been called to repair a merchant's wagon wheel and wouldn't finish until late. The path between Garrick's yard and our boarding house cut through a section of forest that most people avoided after dark, but I'd walked it dozens of times without incident. Foolishly, I'd grown complacent.The first warning was the silence. Birds that had been chattering moments before went quiet. The usual rustle of small animals in the underbrush ceased completely. Even the wind seemed to hold its breath.I stopped walking, hand instinctively moving to the practice sword I always carried now. My heart hammered against my ribs as I scanned the darkening trees.Then I saw the eyes.Purple. Glowing. Hungry.Three Scriptbeasts emerged from the shadows, wolves corrupted by unraveling fate magic, their fur matted with something that looked li
Chapter 6: The Cost of Progress
Kael's POV Six months passed in a blur of pain, progress, and few victories.I woke up at dawn every day, ran to training ground on legs that never ceased to ache and stretched my body to its limit. Garrick was never kind to me, if anything, he seemed to find new ways to torment me in specific. While other students were doing standard drills, I was made to bear weights, to dash through barriers, endurance exercises that left me gasping on the ground."Screens provide individuals with shortcuts," he had once told me, standing over me as I grunted my way through my hundredth push-up. "They strengthen the body naturally, make skills more accessible, make things improve faster. You don't have shortcuts. So you'll use the long path, and you'll follow it until your feet are bleeding."They did bleed. Regularly.But something was shifting. Gradually, almost unnoticeably at first, then more and more noticeably, my body was changing. Muscles were growing where there hadn't been any before. My
Chapter 6: The Cost of Progress
Kael's POV Six months passed in a blur of pain, progress, and few victories.I woke up at dawn every day, ran to training ground on legs that never ceased to ache and stretched my body to its limit. Garrick was never kind to me, if anything, he seemed to find new ways to torment me in specific. While other students were doing standard drills, I was made to bear weights, to dash through barriers, endurance exercises that left me gasping on the ground."Screens provide individuals with shortcuts," he had once told me, standing over me as I grunted my way through my hundredth push-up. "They strengthen the body naturally, make skills more accessible, make things improve faster. You don't have shortcuts. So you'll use the long path, and you'll follow it until your feet are bleeding."They did bleed. Regularly.But something was shifting. Gradually, almost unnoticeably at first, then more and more noticeably, my body was changing. Muscles were growing where there hadn't been any before. My
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