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Author: Tianah
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Chapter 162

Pain.

That was the first thing I felt—or thought I felt. Then, nothing.

Just cold.

Then heat.

A blinding, searing heat that spread through every corner of my being, as though my bones were melting and reforming all at once. I wanted to scream, but there was no mouth, no voice, no air.

Only black.

Only fire.

Only silence.

Then… a heartbeat.

Ba-dum.

It echoed like a drum in an empty hall. Slow. Steady.

Ba-dum.

Another. Louder.

Ba-dum.

Then suddenly—

I gasped.

Air tore into my lungs like a flame. My body arched violently off the ground as I sucked in oxygen. My eyes flew open, and all I could see was the night sky above me—stars scattered like shattered glass across the heavens. The moon stared back at me like a witness, cold and judging.

My body—every inch of it—ached, but not in the way it should have.

I blinked, realizing I was still whole.

No blood. No bone fragments. No internal bleeding. No fatal injuries.

Nothing.

I was lying in a shallow crater, the impact of my fall
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