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Chapter 71: The Ones Who Stayed Behind
Author: Kreed
last update2026-03-26 01:36:31

Rodrick Hale hated quiet training rooms.

They made him think too much.

Steel rang across the practice hall as his blade slammed against a reinforced dummy again and again. The strikes came fast, sharp, controlled, but the frustration behind them was obvious.

The wooden core inside the training construct cracked.

Rodrick stepped back and ran a hand through his hair.

,'Damn it.'

Across the hall someone sighed.

Gerald sat at a long table covered with maps, notes, and half written spell diagrams. H
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