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Chapter 196 – The Kneeling Shadow
Author: Devyn vale
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The smoke cleared slowly, drifting like torn veils across the battlefield. Silence pressed down, heavy and suffocating, broken only by the groans of wounded soldiers who dared not lift their eyes. All eyes were fixed on the center, where two figures remained one standing, one kneeling.

Kael’s body shook violently, blood dripping from a dozen wounds, his blade trembling in his hand. He was the one still on his feet. Barely. His knees threatened to buckle with every heartbeat, but he forced himself upright, his chest rising and falling in shallow, ragged breaths.

Darius was on one knee, his sword plunged into the earth to keep himself from collapsing completely. Black blood pooled beneath him, steam rising from his wounds where Kael’s unstable fire had scorched him deeper than the Void had ever allowed. His breath came in sharp, furious hisses, and his eyes once calm pools of arrogance now burned with hatred and disbelief.

“You…” Darius rasped, his voice hoarse, almost broken. “You shou
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