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75: Midnight Parade of Fools
Author: Red Phoenix.
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Kai stretched his arms slowly, muscles sore but steady. He wiped the blood off his brow with the back of his hand, breathing in the thick metallic scent of the room. Around him, bodies lay still. The motel’s wooden walls were chipped, some bleeding. But not like the men inside them.

He glanced down at one of the corpses, noting the tactical boots, the reinforced combat vest, the custom silencer still clutched in a now-useless grip.

“Military-grade again…” Kai muttered, crouching to inspect one of the weapons. “Clean. Modified. Serial scraped.”

He rose and looked around the room, letting everything settle in.

Every time he met King’s men, they weren’t just random thugs. They were trained, armed, coordinated—and suicidal. This wasn’t some underground drug dealer with a petty grudge.

King was playing a different game.

One Kai was just beginning to understand.

With a sigh, he pulled out his phone.

The line connected instantly.

“Master?” Thane’s voice sounded from the other end.

“I need a
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  • 244: The Hidden Gate

    Following Liang, Kai and Abigail trailed him silently, every step taking them further away from the bustling entrance where hopefuls, merchants, and wandering cultivators had gathered. Soon, the noise of the outside world faded, replaced by an eerie stillness. The path narrowed until it ended at what looked like nothing more than a stretch of barren wasteland. The ground was dry and cracked, the horizon empty, as though the land itself had been abandoned by life.Abigail frowned, shifting her grip on her sword. “This is… it?” she whispered under her breath. “Doesn’t look like much of a sect to me.”Kai’s lips pressed into a thin line, but he didn’t answer. His sharp eyes scanned the area, searching for traps, formations, anything out of place. It looked so plain, yet he could feel a strange hum beneath the surface, like the air itself was alive and watching them.Liang stopped abruptly, turning to face them with a calm but serious expression. “Give me your hands,” he said simply.Kai

  • 243: Stepping In.

    Abigail and Kai stood side by side in silence, both staring at the massive gate of the Immortal Forging Sect, each lost in their own thoughts. The air around the sect was charged, filled with an invisible pressure that weighed down on anyone who stepped close. Every person waiting nearby, from hopeful merchants to wandering cultivators, wore either nervous anticipation or raw desperation on their faces. And here they were, two outsiders with nothing but the clothes on their backs, a fiery sword Zora had tossed to Abigail, and a vague command to “figure it out.”For a long moment, neither spoke. Then Kai broke the silence, his voice low and edged with resignation. “We can stand here all day, but staring at the gates won’t get us in. We need to try something.”Abigail sighed, clutching the hilt of her new sword a little tighter. “But what exactly do we offer? Zora dumped us here with nothing. No introductions, no supplies, no favors to trade. How are we supposed to even step inside, let

  • 242: Sect Gate.

    (The Next Day)The next day came as quickly as the last day went by, and it was almost as though time itself couldn’t wait to drag them into chaos. The morning air carried a strange heaviness, one that Kai noticed the moment he woke up. There was no peace anymore. Yesterday there were lessons, roasts, and scrolls. Today, it was stepping into the real fire.The three stood ready at the house courtyard, bags packed, weapons or lack of them prepared. Zora, of course, wasn’t carrying anything except that smug grin of hers and an aura that screamed death. She stretched lazily, yawned as though the journey ahead bored her already, then tossed something toward Abigail with the carelessness of someone flicking away a candy wrapper.It landed in Abigail’s arms with surprising weight. She staggered slightly before steadying herself, eyes widening when she saw what it was, it was a sword. Not just any sword. A red fiery blade, its surface rippling faintly like molten steel locked in perpetual mo

  • 241: No Mercy For The Weak

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  • 240: The Aftermath of Boiling

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  • 239: The Boiling Begins

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