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Chapter 49: What the Battle Cost
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Chen Wei survived — the healers' careful, desperate efforts, combined with Li Wuchen's own considerable knowledge and Su Yan's direct intervention with techniques reserved for only the most severe, life-threatening injuries, ultimately proving sufficient to stabilize wounds that had, for several agonizing hours following the battle's conclusion, genuinely threatened her life.

But the battle's broader cost, once Cloudreach's exhausted defenders had properly accounted for it in the days that foll
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