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CHAPTER 251 — THE BREATH OF A NEW ADRIAN
Author: Rukky
last update2025-12-02 22:48:19

Rebirth is never gentle. It only looks like peace from a distance.

The light faded slowly. Petal by petal. Atom by atom. Until the world returned like a heartbeat restarting. Adrian new, whole, unknowable stood at the center of a circle of scorched earth.

Gold grass flickered back into life beneath him, cautious, like the realm itself wasn’t sure whether to welcome him or bow.

Emily watched him in a silence thick enough to drown in. He was familiar. He was foreign. He was breathtaking. He was terrifying.

His aura didn’t radiate power, it suppressed it. Like existence bent around him to avoid drawing wrath. Storm and flesh wove through him seamlessly: lightning pulsing beneath skin, breath shaking reality faintly with each inhale.

He lifted his hand as if testing his own fingers. He looked surprised when they obeyed. “Do you… feel stable?” Emily asked, voice barely audible.

Adrian blinked. Then smiled. Not the storm’s smirk. Not the human’s shy curve. Something new. “I feel alive. And
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