2025-05-26 01:13:28Chapter 74: A Forge Rekindled Beneath Ashen Skies
Elias did not misread the haunted gazes cast his way. To call it rudeness would have been ignorance. These dwarves had just borne witness to ruin—an obliteration swift as a lightning-streaked curse from a wrathful spirit. In mere moments, their entire hamlet had been ground into rubble by the earth’s tantrum. Survival, for them, had been a narrow blade’s edge.“You humble us, young one. We hold no treasures to offer, but please—enter our refuge,” said Thrain, elder of the clan, his voice brittle with weariness as he gestured toward their shelter.Elias stepped into the crumbled sanctum nestled beneath the remains of a dwarven stronghold. It was a place that barely held together, a fractured stone heart barely pulsing. Yet within its battered walls, he found an entire dwarven enclave crammed together, like storm-sheltered fireflies.If not for their stout and compact frames, such an assembly would h
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