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CHAPTER 175
Marco's hand closed around the Blood Holy Sword before his mind had fully caught up with his body, the blade coming up in a defensive arc that stopped a hair's width from Lock Fan's throat."Whoa!" Lock Fan threw both hands up, stumbling backward. "It's me! It's Lock Fan!"Marco's vision swam, months of frozen dormancy crashing against sudden consciousness in a disorienting wave. He blinked, the crater's scorched edges slowly resolving into focus, the familiar face in front of him finally registering properly."Lock Fan," he managed, lowering the sword with hands that trembled from disuse. "What happened. Where—"Memory returned in fragments, then all at once, the specific horror of it settling into his chest like a stone.The mysterious figure. Her playful smile. The ice chains. The syringe."She took it," Marco said, his voice cracking. "The bloodline. She stripped it right out of my chest and left me here to die.""Who?" Lock Fan asked carefully.Marco's jaw tightened. "Someone I t
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The express teleportation portal deposited Lock Fan's group onto the plane formerly known as Yuan Hua, now officially renamed the Plane of Holy Light following its integration into the empire's territorial structure."So this is where it all happened," one of the group murmured, taking in the landscape."Where do we start looking?" another asked, glancing at the small dog trotting alongside them with evident impatience."Don't look at me," the dog said. "The pact confirms he's alive. It doesn't include a convenient map function pointing directly at his location. If it did, don't you think I'd have mentioned that considerably useful detail already?"Mei Chuan, one of the younger students in Lock Fan's group, stepped forward with the particular confidence of someone who'd been thinking through the problem methodically. "East Look Mountain. That's where the last confirmed engagement took place, according to every official report. If he's genuinely still alive somewhere, that's the most l
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Lock Fan's group arrived at the gates of Hu Feng City with the particular exhaustion of people who'd spent the better part of two months clearing sand pirates from the Death Desert's caravan routes, their gear carrying visible wear and their expressions carrying the flat efficiency of people who'd been doing violence professionally for a while.The city defense chief who intercepted them at the gate had clearly seen enough combat-worn travelers to categorize them accurately at a glance."Fresh kill on you," he said, his practiced eye scanning their equipment. "Recent, from the smell. Sand pirates?""Cleared out three encampments along the southern route," Lock Fan confirmed. "Documentation's in order."He produced their academy credentials, the anti-forgery seals embedded within the parchment glowing faintly under the chief's inspection lamp. The chief checked each one methodically, his caution the product of a job that required exactly this level of thoroughness."Kains Academy," the
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Duke Nathan retired to his private chambers that evening, the audience with Xavier and Raymond having left him with the particular exhaustion that came from managing other people's poor judgment rather than his own considerable labor.A raven, ancient and grey-feathered in a way that suggested centuries rather than years, waited on the perch beside his dining table."You look tired," the raven said, its voice carrying the particular cadence of something that had spent millennia learning to sound almost, but not quite, human."Managing Raymond's ego is exhausting work," Nathan said, settling into his chair. "I don't know how you've watched this family manage similar figures for four thousand years without losing your patience entirely.""I lost my patience considerably before your birth," the Watcher replied. "What remains is professional obligation."Nathan smiled slightly, pouring wine for himself as the meal was set before him."Tell me the history again," he said. "I find myself ne
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The Raven and Tai'e regarded each other across the tense space above the border, their brief exchange carrying the particular economy of two beings who each understood the actual cost of prolonging this confrontation."I have no interest in a full confrontation with your lineage," the Raven said finally. "This particular matter isn't worth that price.""Then we're in agreement," Tai'e replied, his tone carrying no relief, only the flat acknowledgment of a negotiation reaching its logical conclusion. "My descendant returns with me. Whatever grievance exists between your interests and his remains unresolved for now.""For now," the Raven agreed.Tai'e turned, gathering Everett's still-recovering form with a gentleness that seemed at odds with the ancient, terrible power he'd displayed moments earlier, and the two of them departed through the same warped space Tai'e had originally emerged from, leaving the border conflict suspended in uneasy stillness.They arrived back within the Beastm
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Raymond's flight carried him across seven planes in as many weeks, his considerable personal fortune converting rapidly into an arsenal of escape scrolls, teleportation tokens, and every evasion tool his desperate imagination could purchase.Everett followed each trail with the patient, relentless persistence of a predator who'd stopped feeling tired somewhere around the second month.What Raymond didn't know, and wouldn't have believed even if told directly, was that his pursuit had gained a silent partner.Constantine, watching the chase unfold through intelligence reports that reached him with satisfying regularity, had quietly ordered his Black Guards to assist."Guide him where necessary," Constantine instructed Heide, who'd taken personal charge of the covert operation. "And eliminate anyone Raymond's dark network sends to intervene. I want this handled quietly, and I want the Golden Lion to succeed."The Black Guards worked their subtle assistance across every plane Raymond fle
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