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Chapter 42: The Professor’s Secret
The corridors still reeked of smoke.Kai moved through them like a blade half-drawn—silent, sharp, every step a promise. The detonations had quieted, but Arcadia still trembled. Students had been shoved into dormitories, the wounded carried toward the infirmary. Guards lingered with their grips white on their weapons.The fire wasn’t gone. It lingered in the air, in every stare that followed him. Whispers pressed against the walls like a curse:The Tyrant lives.Lina kept pace beside him, her face pale under streaks of soot. Ash blackened her fingers from dragging first-years out of rubble. She held his sleeve like she feared if she let go, he would vanish back into shadow.But Kai wasn’t walking toward safety. Not the dorms, not the infirmary. His path pulled him elsewhere.And judging by the steady tread behind him, someone knew.The professor was waiting.⸻Professor Halvors stood in the empty classroom like a man summoned for judgment. Usually his robes were precise, his tone clip
Chapter 41: Fire In The Halls
The explosion hit before the crowd could even scream.Stone split beneath Kai’s boots, the impact rattling up his legs as crimson chains slammed into the arena floor. Shards of rock tore through the air, pelting the stands.The robed figure advanced through the smoke, blood magic pulsing around him like a heartbeat. His voice cracked with fury.“You’ll choke on your past, Tyrant.”Another chain ripped from his arm—splitting into three. One for Kai’s throat. One for his chest. One to tangle his legs.Kai didn’t dodge. He surged in. His dagger met the first chain with a hiss, shadows eating into the magic until both vanished in sparks. The second chain grazed his shoulder, burning straight to the bone. White pain flared through him, but his stride never broke. He cut the last chain before it wrapped him.Above, fire burned across the storm clouds. Words big enough to fill the sky:THE TYRANT LIVES.The crowd didn’t cheer. They tore into chaos—some screaming for his blood, others screami
Chapter 40: The Circle’s Message
The words burned across the heavens.THE TYRANT LIVES.Not written in ink. Not illusion. Fire itself carved the message into the roiling storm clouds, so bright it scorched afterimages into the eyes of everyone who dared look.The bells of Arcadia rang at once, an iron chorus shaking the towers. Students poured into the courtyards, faces pale with awe.Professors barked orders. Guards rushed toward the arena.But none of it silenced the one truth echoing over the academy—Rafe, the Tyrant, lived again.And every eye would turn to the one who wore his shadow.Kai stood in the garden, rain plastering his hair to his face, blood dripping freely from his wounds. Lina still clung to his arm, her body trembling. She looked to the sky, then to him, then back again, as if unable to reconcile the two images.“They’re calling you out,” she whispered. “The Circle… they know you’re here.”Kai’s jaw clenched, his gaze never leaving the burning words above. The shadows at his feet writhed restlessl
Chapter 39: A Kiss In The Rain
The storm had loomed all afternoon. Dark waves rolling over the horizon. The pressure had built to some point, each breath warm with the heavy humidity of rain that refused to fall.Without a word! And, with the winner barely acknowledged, Kai exited the arena. His opponent was sprawled unconscious against the stone floor, having been sent down with a single blow that produced neither cheers nor jeers — only silence, as if the crowd didn’t know if it should fear him or doubt him.He didn’t care.Shadow clung like a second skin to his boots, his cloak drawn low over his head. He needed space. The fight had ended clean, but too clean. It felt staged. As though someone had pulled back, waiting for something worse to happen later.And that unease hadn’t left him.Lina trailed after him, her footsteps quick on the stone. “Kai, wait!”He didn’t slow. The corridor curved along the outer wall of the arena, and slits of narrow windows let in the gray light. Rain pattered on the glass — fir
Chapter 38: Lina’s Choice
The academy never slept during tournament season. The halls buzzed with speculation, with students boasting of victories or whispering about the strange upsets that marred this year’s duels. Kai’s name was on every tongue—half spoken in awe, half in fear. But Lina heard another name just as often.Her own.“Dead weight.”“She’ll never last the next round.”"She's in this place because she still clings to him." The words stuck around like ghosts following her down hallways. Some people said it straight to her face out loud in corridors while others just muttered under their breath but made sure she'd catch every syllable anyway. “She ignored them—at least outwardly. But when she arrived at her dormitory door, after another long day spent watching Kai’s battles and preparing for her own, her hands shook on the handle.Inside, the room was dark. On her desk burned a single candle that she hadn’t left lit. And in her seat was a man she did not recognize. He had the Council’s seal—a n
Chapter 37: The Chain Awakens
The hilt trembled in Kai’s hand, its jagged edge wet with his own blood. His arms felt like lead, every muscle screaming after that final collision. Dust filled the air and caught in his throat, made it difficult to breathe. The arena looked less like a battleground now and more like the ruins of something already lost.Darius was lying on the floor covered in blood looking wild-eyed and staring. The staff in his grip throbbed with a red light that crawled across it like veins. His skin was pale. He was still smiling —hungrier than ever. He appeared less human and more like something that had put on the form of a man.The crowd rose as one. The noise smacked Kai, all at once, a wall of it that hammered in his head. Cheers, gasps, screams — they all began to blur, unable to tell one from another. What they were shouting didn’t matter. What mattered was the truth behind it. They weren’t watching a fight anymore. They were watching him fall apart.The wards shimmered overhead, containi
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