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Chapter 19: Broken Blades
Nightfall – Kai’s Dorm RoomThe grimoire pulsed faintly on Kai’s desk, its leather binding warm beneath his fingertips. Moonlight slanted across the open pages, illuminating a new diagram that hadn’t been there hours ago. It looked like a spell matrix—but parts of it were frayed, jagged, incomplete.Kai frowned. He’d seen this sequence before.He flipped back several pages, scanning furiously. Then he found it: Rafe’s final battle spell, etched like a signature—flawless when first recorded. But now…Something was off.Kai held both pages side by side, comparing the original and the faded replica that had just appeared. Runes were reversed. Key sigils distorted. The entire structure was… wrong.“Why would it change?” he muttered.A small glow appeared in the corner of the page. Another message.“It wasn’t changed. It was sabotaged.”Kai’s heart skipped.He touched the note, and images slammed into his mind.⸻Memory Flash – The Tower of Ashen FlameRafe stood tall, cloak torn, a smirk
Chapter 18: The Duel Choice
Arcadia Academy – Training Grounds, MorningThe dueling field shimmered under morning light, its runes pulsing faintly as professors and students filed into the stands. Dueling season had begun. Promotions. Demotions. Power plays. Everything that made Arcadia what it was—a place where status meant survival.Kai stood at the edge of the arena, arms crossed, eyes locked on the ground as whispers rippled through the crowd.“That’s the guy who redirected flame in Class E…”“I heard he’s a Tyrant reincarnated.”“Why is he being considered for promotion? Shouldn’t he be in chains?”Lina sat tensely in the second row with Mae and Alen beside her. Her gaze never left Kai.Professor Merin raised a hand, his voice magically amplified. “Class E student Kai has been offered a Rank Challenge. He may duel any opponent within his tier or lower for a chance to rise.”Another professor leaned in. “Strange. Class E never gets early duels.”“Stranger still—he didn’t request it. Someone nominated him.”K
Chapter 17: Healing Hands
Arcadia Academy – East Practice GroundsThe sun sat high in the sky, but the mood around the East Practice Grounds was anything but bright. A crowd had gathered—half students, half curious onlookers—surrounding a collapsed boy from Class D. He writhed on the ground, pale and gasping for air. Sparks flickered uncontrolled from his fingertips.“Back up!” a student barked, struggling to control the crowd. “It’s mana shock—he’s going to convulse again!”“No healers nearby?” someone shouted.“Class A’s at elemental training. And Class B’s all the way in the west wing!”A pause.“Then he’ll die.”The panic simmered.No one moved.Except Lina.She stepped forward before her brain could stop her. Her fingers trembled, but she dropped to her knees beside the boy. His breathing was shallow. His lips were blue.I shouldn’t…I’m not good enough.But her hands moved anyway.One pressed against his chest, the other against his temple. Her eyes fluttered shut.A faint glow emerged—pale green, shaky,
Chapter 16: The Circle Watches
Three Days Later – Arcadia Academy, East Wing Kai could feel it. Not just the stares anymore. Something more precise. More practiced. Eyes followed him wherever he went. Not openly—but just long enough. Just subtle enough. He’d catch the flick of a head turning when he entered a hall. The sound of footsteps that always stopped when he stopped. The breath behind him when he walked alone. The Circle was watching. And they weren’t being careful anymore. At first, he thought it was paranoia. The aftereffects of the memory vision. But by the second day, he was sure. On the third, he started testing it. A quick turn in the courtyard. A pause mid-staircase. Every time, someone vanished just out of view. They were following him. Or—someone was. ———- Potions Lab Professor Lin spoke in long, droning tones about “the delicate balance of alchemical threads,” but Kai barely heard her. He pretended to copy notes, his gaze fixed on the back of the room—where a girl from Class
Chapter 15: Chain of the Pasts
Kai’s Dorm RoomThe wax seal cracked under Kai’s fingers—he hadn’t meant to break it that fast, but his hands wouldn’t stop shaking.The parchment unfolded with a dry hiss. No greeting. No message. Just a symbol.Black ink, jagged and deliberate. There was something else mixed in—silver? No. Something metallic that caught the light in a way that didn’t sit right.It throbbed softly, like it had a pulse of its own.Kai’s brow creased.This wasn’t a design.It was a sigil.Underneath, scratched in faded ink:“The grimoire remembers more than you do.”His throat went dry. The letter slipped from his grip and fluttered to the desk, landing beside the old grimoire—the grimoire. The one he should’ve locked away. The one that still made sounds at night, like whispering when everything else was silent.The instant the edge of the parchment brushed the grimoire’s worn leather—the sigil lit up.It hissed. Then it hummed.Heat surged through the room, sudden and sharp. Kai stumbled back from his
Chapter 14: Rumors and Rejections
Arcadia Academy, Central HallThe halls buzzed.Kai didn’t need to listen to know what they were saying. He could feel it. Like static in the air. Heads turned, eyes narrowed, voices dipped just enough to pretend they weren’t talking about him. But they were.“That was Tyrant magic.”“He redirected flame—like he’s done it a thousand times.”“Is he… reincarnated?”He moved through the crowd like he was walking upstream. Shoulders square. Face unreadable. But inside, his thoughts were loud.They’d seen too much.And worse… so had he.He hadn’t meant to use Rafe’s move. It had slipped from his body like instinct. A twitch. A reflex. And yet it fit him like it belonged.That scared him more than anything.At their usual table, Lina sat with Mae and Alen, watching Kai’s slow approach. Something in her had changed since last night. She didn’t know what, only that it was heavier than before.“Kai,” she said softly as he sat beside her.He didn’t answer.Mae looked around. “People are treatin
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