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Chapter 119: Above it all:
Author: Mirabel
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It was not Kaelen Ashwright’s match. His was the fourth pairing, the same position as the first round, which he noted with the specific attention he gave to patterns that repeated, because repeating patterns in a tournament run by someone as deliberate as Feng Crimson-Hand were not coincidences.

They were either habit or intention, and Feng was not a man of habit.

He watched the first match with the full Essence Reading running at the stationary depth, building the tactical database with each
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