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Chapter 40 — The Doctrine of Absolute Evil
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The decree arrived before dawn.

Not carried by a single messenger, but by many riders in white and gold fanning out across the capital, church banners snapping in the cold morning wind. Bells rang again, sharper this time, stripped of ceremony and heavy with command.

This was not a warning, it was a verdict and Kael felt it before he heard it.

He stood in the estate’s upper corridor, fingers pressed lightly against the stone wall as the familiar pressure crawled across his spine—divine resonanc
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