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Book 3: Chapter 61: The Price of Transcendence
Author: Mani Mayox
last update2026-08-31 19:46:27

The weight of a higher world did not care about lower-realm gods.

Kaelen Vance lay pinned flat against the pulverizing white jade deck, his cheek pressed into the fine crystal dust. Beside him, Lyra Sterling was locked in the same crushing spatial trap, her breath choked back into her throat as the Domain God suppression array forced every drop of their fused Unbounded Qi back into their spirit cores.

Thirty feet above Lyra’s chest, the colossal golden needle of the nine-headed mechanical drago
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