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Chapter 262
He stood up. His good arm pushed him up and the broken one hung and he stood up and he looked at the head and the head looked at him and something had changed in the ancient eyes."What did you take," Xerion asked with a stern look.Draven didn't answer.He stepped back from the head. One step, two. He found a stance that his body knew without him choosing it, the way his body knew fire, the way it had known Black Death after Voss, something settling into muscle and bone that had always been going to be there.Behind him, in the air above the broken arena floor, something appeared.The head saw it before Draven could describe it to himself.The ancient eyes went wide.It was an old weighing balance made with gai. Enormous."No," Xerion said.."No," it said again, louder. "That technique is gone. She failed. She failed to use it and it died with her. You cannot have that. You are—" The ancient eyes moved
Chapter 261
He tried everything he had.Fire from the left. Fire from below. Fire sustained from two angles simultaneously, output that had ended fights at the garrison. He ran it until his hands shook with the effort and the head absorbed every piece of it and looked at him and waited for him to stop.He stopped.He breathed, chest heaving, and looked at the head. It had scorch marks. Deep ones. The surface of the thing cracked in places where his fire had stayed longest. Real damage, sitting there visible, and it meant nothing because the consciousness inside it had three thousand years of practice living through damage."Stop," Xerion said, inside his skull. "You've done more than anyone expected of you. You've done more than I've seen from a human in a very long time." The ancient voice had something in it that might have been genuine. "But this is over.""No," Draven said. He moved left, threw fire at a new angle."You're burning the reserves you don't have," Xerion said."I know.""You're g
Chapter 260
The head looked at him.The ancient eyes, the size of his body, adjusting to find him the way they'd been finding him all night."You killed Rosanora," Xerion said. Inside his skull."Yes," Draven said."She was the most capable of the three.""I know," Draven said. "That's why I went to her first."He blazed his fists up, and threw fire at the head.It was not a good opening. He knew it wasn't a good opening before he did it. The fire was running low and the head was going to take it the way the head took everything.The fire hit the head.The head looked at him through it."Your fire has diminished," Xerion said."Yes," Draven said."You've been fighting for hours.""Yes," Draven said."And you walked up to me anyway.""Yes," Draven said. He moved right and threw fire from the new angle. Same result. The head tracked him with the slow rotation it used…"Why," Xerion asked.Draven used full might of his flames.The detonation hit the head. The head shook. A movement. A single shudder
Chapter 259
The sect came in from three sides. Sera felt them before she saw them, thirty people moving through stone, and she was already adjusting the floor when the first group broke from the east corridor. She brought a wall up six feet in front of them. Solid. They hit it and stopped. "Northeast," Lyra said from behind her. Sera was already there. The northeast group were using a formation technique, four of them working together, cultivation aligned, and it had enough force to crack through standard earth defense. She didn't give them a standard earth defense. She gave them a floor that was no longer level, the stone tilting fifteen degrees, and four people in a formation technique have a bad time when the ground decides to be somewhere different. They broke formation. Two of them fell. "You're showing off," Lyra said giggling. "I'm working," Sera responded, dodging and striking. Lyra smiled and turned to her, "You're showing off while working." “How do you even have the leisure to l
Chapter 258
Rage was the strongest thing Jin had ever fought.He had landed seventeen strikes.Rage had felt eleven of them.Six that landed incorrectly were simply less relevant to Rage than they were to anything else Jin had ever fought, the way light rain was less relevant to a boulder than to a piece of paper.Jin was faster. This was not in question. He was faster by a margin that should have mattered more than it did, the rerouted lightning giving him a quality of speed and he was using it. Landing strikes in positions that required Rage to absorb from angles he hadn't positioned for. Building damage.The damage was building slower than the fight was progressing.He hit Rage with a full discharge, the lightning running clean through the corrected path, and Rage stopped, looked at Jin, and continued advancing.Jin moved back.He moved back four steps, which was more steps than he liked moving back, and ran the numbers, and the numbers said that at the current rate of exchange he would be at
Chapter 257
He had already won the fight with Rosanora.Now Draven moved toward Dahm.Draven felt him before he saw him..He turned.Dahm was standing ten feet away.He looked at Draven. He looked at the place where Rosanora had gone down. He looked at the west quarter where Jin and Thorne and Rage were, the sounds of that fight audible from here, the specific sounds of something extended and costly and not yet resolved.He looked back at Draven."I'm not going to tell you it didn't have to be this way," Dahm said."Good," Draven said. "Because it did.""You killed Rosanora.""Yes," Draven said.Dahm looked at the place where she was down. Something moved across his face. Not the grief Draven expected. Something more complicated. The expression of someone who had known something was coming for a very long time and has now arrived at it and is finding it both exactly what they expected and nothing like what they expected."She believed in what she was doing," Dahm said. "From the beginning. Everyt
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