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Chapter 163 : End of The Thornfells
At The Thornfells The Thornfell estate stood eerily silent. It has never been this silent before, after the news hit them everything seems to have sunk to the ground.Inside, on the highest floor of the east wing, Agatha Thornfell's scream shattered the silence."No! No, no, NO!"Glass shattered. A lamp hit the wall, exploded in sparks. Pillows tore, frames smashed, perfume bottles burst like tiny grenades of desperation. Agatha rampaged through the suite like a possessed hurricane, her silk robe flailing around her thin frame, mascara bleeding down her cheeks."I can’t lose! I’m a Thornfell, goddamn it!" she shrieked.Her voice cracked under the weight of disbelief. Reality had become a waking nightmare. Her empire—gone. Her legacy—reduced to ash.Three sons, dead.Her fourth, bedridden and brain-dead. A once-promising general, now drooling into a pillow.And her husband. The great Lucian Thornfell. Feared. Respected. The so-called lion of Ravenmoor.Dead. Killed by a ghost they sho
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Kaelus didn’t ease into it. He spoke with the gravity of a man delivering a funeral sentence."Her name is Selene Verrick."That family. Jaden clenched his jaw. The Verricks were old money. Royal blood. Obsessed with reputation, obsessed with control. Any deviation from their perfect narrative was erased—either with silence or force.Kaelus continued, "After the incident, they disowned her. No trial. No questions. They threw her out like waste. Her and her newborn."Jaden closed his eyes.They had cast her aside, a victim of circumstance, made to carry shame that was never hers to bear. A life of exile, scraping by in the shadows, branded by a past she never chose. And the daughter… his daughter… born into that pain."Her daughter's name is Mira," Kaelus said.Mira.The name echoed in his head like a bell toll.He imagined her—tiny hands, cold nights, hunger gnawing at her ribs while her mother shielded her from the wind. Years of struggle. Years of being hunted, forgotten, and alone.
Chapter 161
The dust of battle had barely settled. Lucian's body still lay sprawled on the stone floor of the arena, blood soaking through his once-pristine garments. The crowd was in shock—silent, stunned, overwhelmed.And then came the voice."Winner… Jaden Rift!"The announcer’s declaration echoed across the arena like a war drum. Cheers followed slowly at first, then faster—roaring into waves of thunderous applause and disbelief.“Jaden won…”“He really did it…”“He ended Lucian…”“The throne of power belongs to the Scarface and Winston families now…”A new chapter had been written in blood.But just as the crowd began to process the moment, a new presence descended on the arena.The air shifted. Soldiers entered the space with rigid precision, their black armor gleaming under the lights. Behind them strode a man wrapped in a dark crimson cape, bearing the insignia of Ironvale.General Kaelus.One of the most feared names in the empire. A war strategist. A kingmaker. And the appointed Overlor
Chapter 160
Meanwhile back at the arena.The crowd leaned forward in frozen silence as Lucian charged. His attacks were relentless, a blur of speed and power few could even track, let alone match. Jaden blocked and parried, but it was clear—Lucian wasn’t playing anymore.He was out for blood.And Jaden? He was still standing.Lucian’s footwork was a dancer’s. His fists, sledgehammers. He threw a spinning kick, a knee, a jab combo that ended in a brutal elbow—only for Jaden to duck, pivot, and counter. But this time, Lucian didn’t pull back.He snapped.“ENOUGH!” Jaden bellowed.A sudden burst of energy surged from his core. In a blink, he twisted his body, cocked his fist back, and drove it straight into Lucian’s chest.The impact was thunder.Lucian’s body flew across the arena like a missile. He hit the ground hard, bouncing once, twice, then skidding on his back as a trail of blood followed.The crowd gasped.Then silence.Whispers broke the quiet like cracks in glass.“…Did he just…?”“Lucian
Chapter 159
Meanwhile at the other side of the Ship.The steel floor creaked beneath Hope’s boots as she slipped through the dim, narrow corridor of the decrepit ship. The only light came from flickering wall panels and the soft blue glow of her holo-glasses, scanning for heat signatures, chemical traces—anything that would lead her to the stash she needed. The air was thick with rust and the faint stench of engine oil. Her fingers hovered over the side panel of her visor, adjusting filters until the walls began to blur and the digital overlay lit up with a faint red pulse.“There,” she muttered, her voice barely above a whisper.A section of the wall flickered faintly on her scan. Hollow. Not natural. She pressed her hand against the seam, then found a hidden panel—old tech, rusted but not dead. She punched in a quick override sequence and the wall hissed open with a sigh of stale air.What she saw wasn’t drugs. Not yet.It was a prison.Chains bolted to the walls. The flickering of malfunctioni
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The announcer’s voice cut through the silence, the electric tension thick in the air. “And now... the final round of the Bloodborne Trial! The two most feared fighters in Ravenmoor—Lucian of the Thornfell family, and Jaden Rift. Who will rise? Who will fall?”A deafening cheer erupted from the crowd, but the atmosphere was different this time. The anticipation was heavy. It wasn’t just any fight. This was the battle for supremacy, the collision of two titans. Jaden and Lucian locked eyes, each man standing still, sizing the other up, both with a quiet yet overwhelming confidence. They knew the stakes.The crowd shifted uneasily, murmurs spreading like wildfire. Why weren't they moving? Someone from the stands yelled, "They’re just waiting, they’re both too proud to make the first move!"A nearby voice joined in. “They're trying to read each other, figure out the other’s weaknesses. The first one to make a mistake is done for."It felt like time itself was holding its breath, the tensi
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