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Chapter 148 — The Weight of Judgement
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Eron felt the change before the sky revealed it. The moment his refusal settled fully into his mind, the presence above the battlefield shifted from controlled command into something far more severe. The light that had once tried to guide him no longer reached with persuasion or certainty. It hardened into a force that carried only consequences.

Kael sensed it too.

The dark energy around him remained steady as he held back the two advancing figures, but his eyes lifted toward the widening fract
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