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Chapter 175
The mourning gong still echoed in the valleys below. DONG. DONG. It was a sad, heavy sound. It meant the old Sect Master was gone.But Lucien and Seraphina did not have time to cry. They did not have time to rest. The Grand Tournament of Sovereigns was coming in three months. If they did not find the ultimate weapon hidden at the top of the mountain, the entire Cloud-Soaring Sect would be slaughtered.They walked out of the Inner Court. They passed the last of the beautiful red wooden buildings. They stepped onto a narrow, broken dirt path that pointed straight up into the sky.This was the forbidden path. No disciple had walked on this dirt for five hundred years."Stay close to me," Lucien commanded softly.He walked in front. He did not wear his dark shadow-cloak. He wore a simple, warm grey shirt and dark pants. His heavy iron boots crunched loudly on the frozen dirt. The jagged black blade of the God-Slaying Spear
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Master Tian took a deep, painful breath. He reached a shaking hand up to his own neck. He pulled on a thin, dirty piece of leather string that was hiding under his shirt. He pulled it out. Hanging on the end of the string was a key. Seraphina looked at it and frowned in confusion. It was the ugliest thing she had ever seen. It was a giant, heavy key made of dark black iron. It was covered in thick, orange rust. It did not glow with magic. It did not look special. It looked like a piece of garbage dug out of the mud. "What is that?" Seraphina asked. Master Tian took the string off his neck. He held the heavy, rusted key out to her. "This is the greatest secret of our mountain," Master Tian whispered. "A secret that only the Sect Master is allowed to know."Lucien stepped closer to the bed. His purple-black eyes scanned the rusted key. He felt a very faint, incredibly ancient magical signature hiding deep inside the rusted iron. It felt like the magic from the Eternal Ossuary. "The
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"Do not speak, Master," Seraphina cried. Hot tears rolled down her cheeks, splashing onto his hand. "Save your strength. We will find a way to fix your core. I will go to the capital! I will find a grandmaster alchemist!""No," Master Tian whispered, shaking his head very slightly. "My time is done. The sun is setting for me."The old man coughed. A thick, dark drop of black blood rolled from the corner of his mouth. A healer quickly stepped forward and wiped it away with a clean white cloth. Master Tian looked around the room. He saw the crying teachers. He saw the sad guards. "Do not weep for me," the Sect Master commanded weakly. "I have lived a long life. I have seen the clouds soar. But I have also been a blind fool."He looked back at Seraphina. His cloudy eyes filled with deep, heavy regret. "I failed you, Seraphina," Master Tian said sadly. "I sat in my wooden chair while First Elder Shen poisoned our water. I drank his tea every day, smiling at a snake. I was blind to the
Chapter 172
The morning air was thick and cold. The severed head of the golden general sat in the dirt, right at Lucien’s boots. The man wrapped in red silk stood completely still. He hid his face behind a smooth, blank white porcelain mask. He waited patiently for Lucien to answer his offer. The massive, rival Azure Dragon Empire had just offered an alliance to the Graveyard King. They wanted to destroy the Saint-Aurelius Clan together. Lucien looked down at the dead general’s face. He recognized the golden helmet. It was a high-ranking soldier from his father’s personal guard. "Your Emperor is very bold," Lucien said. His deep voice was perfectly calm. "He kills a golden general and throws the head at my front door. He is trying to force me to be his friend."The masked man bowed his head slightly. "My Emperor is practical, Graveyard King. He knows you have power. He knows you have an army of shadows. But the Saint-Aurelius Clan has millions of soldiers across the world. You cannot fight th
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"Wait! I have gold! I can tell you Julian's secrets!" Garm screamed, holding his hands up to protect his face. Seraphina swung the sword cleanly. Swish.The black and blue blade sliced perfectly across Garm’s neck. The dark, freezing magic instantly sealed the wound. There was no blood. Garm’s eyes went wide. He tried to speak, but his head simply slid off his shoulders and hit the frozen wooden platform. His body fell over, completely frozen solid. The proxy sect was shattered. The leader was dead. Seraphina lowered her sword. She took a deep breath. She did not feel guilty. She did not feel like a monster. She felt strong. She felt safe. She had protected her home. The remaining thugs in the camp dropped their weapons. They fell to their knees and pressed their faces into the dirt, weeping and begging for their lives. High up on the cliff, Lucien smiled. He raised his hand. "Shadows, return," he commanded softly. The thousands of terrifying shadow-dogs and ghouls instantly
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Seraphina smiled a fierce, dangerous smile. She reached down to her waist. She grabbed the dark, freezing handle of Winter's Howl. She drew the sword from its scabbard. SHRIIIIING!The sound of the blade was not a normal metallic ring. It sounded like the screaming of a terrible winter blizzard. The moment the pitch-black, ice-blue sword touched the air, the temperature in the entire valley plummeted. The massive bonfires in the camp instantly flickered and died, freezing into solid blocks of red ice. Seraphina stepped off the cliff. She did not fall. She used the Cloud-Piercing Step. She turned into a blur of white mist and shot directly down into the center of the panicked war camp. She landed softly on top of a large wooden wagon, right in the middle of a group of fifty heavily armored Iron-Fang elite guards. The guards saw her. They recognized the beautiful, pale face. "It is the Ice-Sword!" a guard captain yelled. "She is alone! Kill her!"The fifty men raised their heavy
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