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Chapter 181: The Iron Count
Author: Duekki
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Lin Feng's POV

The neon-tinted glare of the Southern Capital’s marketplace didn't penetrate the heavy, soundproofed vault of the private jade counting-house.

Feng corners the Master of the Silk Guild inside his private jade counting-house, his forge-hammer resting on the mahogany ledger desk.

The heavy iron head of my weapon, still carrying the soot of the northern scrap-mines and the unindexed negative velocity of the Ash-Forge Core, sat directly over the pristine gold-lacquered ledger lines
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