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Chapter 136
Drogo felt their struggle through the tethers. He felt Pip’s anger. He felt Mia’s desperation. He didn't give them mana. He didn't give them comfort. He gave them silence.He was teaching them the "Cost of Perfection." To be a perfect weapon, they had to give up the "Joy" of the kill. They had to become as cold and as empty as the Void itself.By the tenth hour, the children were reaching their breaking point. Pip snapped. The boy let out a snarl and stood up. His silver eyes were glowing a frantic, unstable red. "I can't! I need to move! I need to eat!" He lunged toward the door of the chamber.Drogo didn't move his body. He didn't even open his eyes.[ABILITY ACTIVATED: GRAVITY WELL – TOTAL SUPPRESSION.]WHAM. The gravity in the room didn't just increase. It became a solid wall.Pip was slammed into the floor so hard the stone cracked. The other twelve children were pushed down to their chests. Their bones groaned. Their charcoal skin began to leak black smoke."Source... please..."
Chapter 135
The air in the Bone-Yard was usually cold, but tonight it felt electric. Vesper and Pip had returned from the sewers. They had killed a Master of the Academy. They had turned a man into dust and washed him away with the sludge. They were not sad. They were not shaking. They were glowing.In the Shadow-Barracks, the other eleven children gathered around Vesper and Pip. The room was lit by a single Abyssal Torch, casting long, flickering shadows against the iron walls.Vesper stood in the center. her white hair was floating wildly, as if there was a wind in the room that no one else could feel. Her silver eyes were not calm. They were pulsing with a bright, aggressive violet light."He was so slow," Vesper whispered. Her voice was high and fast. "He tried to use a fire-shield. I just walked through it. It felt like... like warm rain. And then I touched him."She looked at her hand. Small sparks of black electricity jumped between her fingers."When his magic entered me, I felt like I c
Chapter 134
The Outer Rim of the sewers was a place where the city of Solara tried to forget its own waste. It was far from the clean, black-glass walls of The Pit. Here, the tunnels were made of old, crumbling red bricks. The water was a thick, brown sludge that moved slowly, carrying the smell of rotten food and sour magic.It was a place of echoes. Every drip of water sounded like a footstep. Every rustle of a rat sounded like a ghost.Master Elian did not like the sewers. He was a mid-tier mage of the Academy, a man who spent his days in a warm library reading about the Glory of the Sun. He wore a beautiful blue robe made of fine silk, but now the bottom of the robe was soaked in stinking water."Disgusting," Elian muttered. He held his "Sun-Lantern" high. The lantern burned with a steady, golden light that pushed the shadows back ten feet. "Why did the High Master send me here? The Demon is dead. The Tunnel-Hounds found his blood. This is a waste of my time."He was here for a routine surve
Chapter 133
The Pit was a world of perfect, heavy silence. It was not the silence of an empty room. It was the silence of a deep forest before a storm. It was the silence of a predator waiting in the tall grass.Drogo Payne sat on his throne of compressed earth. He was ten feet of polished obsidian, his silver-marbled skin glowing with a very dim, steady violet light. He was not moving. He was not even breathing. He was simply existing as the center of a giant, invisible web.Inside his mind, the thirteen tethers were humming. He could feel the Shadow-Walkers. They were scattered throughout the fortress, practicing the lessons he had carved into their souls."The training is almost finished," Drogo whispered. His voice was a low vibration that didn't even disturb the dust on the floor. "Now, we must learn to move as one."Drogo stood up and walked out of the Inner Sanctum. He led the thirteen children to the "North Junction." This was a massive room where the new tunnels of the Pit met the ancie
Chapter 132
The training arena of the Pit had changed again. It was no longer a flat circle of stone. Drogo Payne had spent the last three hours reshaping it. He had used his Earth Rot to carve deep trenches and his Gravity Manipulation to lift massive pillars of Abyssal Granite into the air.The arena was now a "Gauntlet." It was a three-hundred-yard path of pure terror.Drogo stood at the finish line. He was ten feet of absolute, light-eating blackness. His obsidian skin was cold, and his silver-marbled veins pulsed with a slow, heavy rhythm. In front of him sat a single practice dummy. It was made of reinforced iron, and in the center of its chest, a "High-Grade Mana Core" glowed with a bright, arrogant blue light."The dummy is the King," Drogo’s voice boomed, echoing off the black-glass dome of the ceiling. "The path is the world. And the world wants you dead."The thirteen Shadow-Walkers stood at the start of the path. They were breathing hard. They had already spent ten hours practicing
Chapter 131
The air in the training arena of the Pit was cold and smelled of old paper. Drogo Payne stood in the center of the Abyssal Granite floor. He was ten feet of polished black stone, his silver-marbled skin glowing with a faint, steady violet light. In his massive, obsidian hand, he held a book.It was not a book of stories. It was not a book of poems. It was a heavy, leather-bound volume stolen from the Academy’s private library. On the cover, written in gold letters, were the words: THE RADIANT CORE: A MASTER’S GUIDE TO INTERNAL MANA FLOW.In front of him, the thirteen Shadow-Walkers sat on the floor. They were perfectly still. Their charcoal skin was hard, and their white hair floated in the air like smoke. Their silver eyes were fixed on the book. They were ready to learn."The Empire tells you that mages are chosen by the Gods," Drogo said. His voice was a deep, vibrating chime that made the pages of the book flutter."They tell you that the 'Spark' is a divine gift. They want you to
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