Chapter 012
Author: Bing
last update2026-10-25 19:05:32

For the thirty days following the establishment of the Shadow Eagle Clan, the fifth floor of the Cataclysm Block became a black box. No news leaked out. No prisoners were seen in the yard. To the rest of the prison population, it was as if the earth had simply opened up and swallowed Julian Cross, Rex Dalton, and their seventeen chosen disciples whole.

But inside that sealed corridor, a metamorphosis was taking place.

It was a month of hell. A month of iron and sweat. Before Julian'
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