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Chapter 81
“That is…” Serakai rolled her eyes slowly, quaking in the corner of her mouth. “…unexpectedly expected.”Sahen blinked, twitching his brows. “That… doesn’t surprise you?” As his voice cracked with disbelief.“Yeah, well—see…” Serakai tilted her head, folding her arms tighter across her chest. “I studied under a lot of flameborn masters, alright? And in all that time—every scroll, every lecture, every pompous speech—they never once mentioned dark flames. Not once.” She dragged her words out deliberately, almost teasing him. “So, yeah, I suspected something was off… but I didn’t actually want to believe you weren’t one of us.”Sahen’s lips pressed into a line. Rattling the chains faintly as his hands shifted against the metal chair.“But your father,” Rokhen cut in, using a steady voice that sliced through the tension like a blade. “The ex-commander who held your position before you… He was a flameborn. Wasn’t he?”Sahen lowered his gaze again, dropping his voice into a hushed but bitt
Chapter 80
The fire-lamp above swayed lazily, spreading its glow like molten gold across the tick leathered walls. Each time the desert wind pushed against the tent, the shadows shifted, stretching like black claws over the sand-dusted floor, fluttering the edges of the maps sprawled wide across the wooden table.Sahen’s gaze was fixed on one of those maps, softly clinking his chains each time he shifted in the iron chair. His face, pale beneath the flickering light, seemed carved from both defiance and exhaustion. Finally, he broke the silence, using a low voice that was steady enough to cut through the hum of the lamp.“Varohn… he… he’s not the kind of bad person you might think he is.”Serakai leaned against the pillar near the edge of the tent, crossing her arms tight against her chest, letting out a cocktail expression of irritation and boredom. Rokhen, sitting opposite Sahen, listened without blinking, resting his elbows on the rough wooden table, and moving his fingers together.“To b
Chapter 79
“So what do I do?... Where do I start?” Kaelen asked, using a steady voice that threaded with some kind of tension. His fists trembled slightly, not out of fear, but from the restless power simmering under his skin.“It’s quite simple,” Sahrak responded.Kaelen blinked once. Then twice. His lips curled upward, as disbelief clawed its way out. “Is there such a thing as simple?” he asked, arching his brow with a cynicism that didn’t quite mask his impatience.Sahrak’s old eyes gleamed. “Those people you want to keep alive…” he began slowly, steadying his voice against the cold desert wind. “Do you… remember their faces?”A silence settled between them. Kaelen clenched his jaw. He opened his mouth, then shut it, as though the answer burned his tongue. Finally, with a quiet exhale, he said, “I don’t.” His voice cracked slightly, but he pressed on. “But that doesn’t change anything. They… they seem to know me. From the past. From who I was.” He frowned, then forced a faint grin that did
Chapter 78
The desert wind screamed across the dunes like a beast with no face, carrying grit sharp enough to bite the skin. The night was heavy and its silence was broken only by the dry hiss of shifting sands and the low hum of fire flickering in Kaelen’s hand. The blue flame swirled weakly in his palm, casting ghostly light across his jawline, while searching around using his restless eyes.“It was around here… I think,” Kaelen muttered, as the desert's night wind swallowed his voice. He raised his hand, circling his finger vaguely at the crater ahead. The blue fire in his palm sputtered, as though struggling to breathe in the cold desert air.Sahrak’s sharp and unblinking eyes didn’t follow his finger. They stayed locked on Kaelen’s face instead, measuring him. “What exactly did you see?” he asked, using a flat tone, devoid of sympathy and almost accusing.Kaelen exhaled sharply through his nose, furrowing his brows. “Well… uhm…” He closed his eyes, trying to piece the memory back togethe
Chapter 77
“I get it… You’re very mad and frustrated right now.” Zhaedor broke the minute silence with a voice that was too smooth and too casual for the weight of the room. He leaned his back against the low, pulsing clay wall, as its strange veins glowed faintly like embers under his shoulders.Varohn stood inches from him, still pitching his posture forward, while still clutching his fist in his other hand. His chest rose and fell heavily, and dark flames were still simmering faintly across his arms.“Honestly,” Zhaedor went on, tilting his head, “I get it. You’ve been bested not just by one person, but by two strange ones. And here you thought…” He let out a short laugh, covering his lips with two fingers before lowering them with a mocking grace. “…obviously, you were the strongest of them all.”Varohn’s jaw tightened.“But I can’t blame you,” Zhaedor continued, folding his arms, still leaning against the wall.“I never looked at myself as the strongest…” Varohn’s reply came with a groanin
Chapter 76
The chamber pulsed with heat and the molten veins carved into its clay walls throbbed faintly, glowing like a furnace breathing in rhythm with Varohn’s rage. Gold coins rattled in their chest as the vibration of power trembled through the floor.Varohn burst out a torrent of blackened fire from his arms, wrapping the flames around and up to his elbows like gauntlets forged from the abyss. His fists curled tight, creaking his knuckles under the strain. His eyes never left the figure before him—familiar, yet warped in a way that made every instinct scream wrong.“Mahn…” Zhaedor muttered, tilting his head as though studying an animal behind glass. His voice was low, whispery and threaded with mockery. “What a violent warrior you are.” His lips curved into the faintest smirk. “Can’t you just—for once in your miserable little life—try to… settle things peacefully?”Varohn’s nostrils flared. He rolled his eyes, crackling the fire louder around his arms. “Says the guy who dragged me here
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