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The two of them walked through the eastern wing's corridor.A corridor that usually felt wide enough for two people to walk with comfortable distance between them now seemed narrower than usual, perhaps because Carath was walking in a way that left no room around him for air that had no business being there.They passed a large window overlooking the southern sky.Carath had no intention of stopping.But the shadow forced him to.Not a small shadow. Not something that could be ignored at the edge of his vision and forgotten as he continued walking. A shadow large enough to darken part of the corridor through the window, moving in a way that immediately triggered something in Carath's mind, a mind that had been trained for years to recognize threats before those threats had even finished announcing themselves.He stopped.Turned.In the sky beyond the window, four silhouettes hovered.Huge. Their wings, even while motionless, dominated their entire silhouettes from edge to edge. Their
Chapter 325
In the eastern wing of Vaelthorn Royal Palace, Carath sat alone.His chamber was silent in exactly the way he preferred. No servants, no officials, no reports waiting to be read. Just him, his chair, and the window overlooking the palace courtyard below.There was a smile at the corner of his lips.Small, the kind of smile worn by someone who had already calculated the entire game board and found that every piece was exactly where it was supposed to be.More than six thousand people.Fifteen Sky Realm cultivators. Four hundred and eighty Star Realm cultivators. Five thousand six hundred Spirit Realm cultivators. The entire military force he had gathered, trained, and entrusted with a single purpose was now moving through Vrethkaar Forest, sealing off every possible escape route for an adventurer who thought he could provoke Carath simply by announcing himself throughout the palace.Provoke me?Carath almost laughed at the thought.The adventurer was clever, that much could not be deni
Chapter 324
Lein opened his eyes.Nothing had changed in Vrethkaar Forest. The Ironcrown trees still stood where they had before. The four Auranveil corpses remained scattered across four different locations. The two remaining spirit stones still glowed beside him, their shifting colors continuing to dance beneath surfaces that were neither fully transparent nor completely solid.But the way his eyes perceived all of it had changed.Not because the world was different.Because the one observing it was no longer the same person.He raised one hand and looked at it.Spiritual energy flowed beneath his skin in a way he could now see—not with the same perception he had possessed before, not as something that required concentration or searching, but as something as naturally present as air within the lungs.He clenched his fist.Between his fingers, the air itself reacted in a way it never had before, retreating from his fist as though it already understood that the space surrounding this object deser
Chapter 323
The spiritual energy from the stone began to flow into him.Lein had absorbed more than a hundred spirit stones since arriving in Xollos, from the lowest grade to the highest, and through that experience, he had become intimately familiar with the sensation.He knew how the energy entered through his meridians, like water finding a channel and flowing along paths that already existed, filling the narrowest passages before spreading into the widest, calm and predictable.But this one was different.It did not feel like flowing water.It felt like crashing waves.The first surge of energy from the Auranveil's spirit stone slammed into his primary meridian with such force that every energy channel within his body instantly tensed—not because they were being damaged, but because they were suddenly forced to contain a volume they had never been designed to hold.Like a river that suddenly receives the combined flood of ten other rivers at once, and within seconds must decide whether to ove
Chapter 322
The first thing to emerge from the Auranveil's chest cavity was not the stone.It was light.A brilliant gold, a shade entirely different from the warmer, deeper gold of the Auranveil's fur. This was purer, sharper—a radiance that did not exist because it reflected light, but because it generated its own. The moment it emerged from the darkness within the beast's chest, its glow illuminated the entire clearing in a way even the sun never could, for sunlight could never reach this place, but this light could.Then the stone itself emerged completely.Lein stood.Both hands were raised beneath it, supporting the massive stone from below, and only now, with it fully revealed between his hands, could its true size be appreciated.It was as tall as a doorway.This was not a stone that could be held in one hand, slipped into a pocket, or hidden beneath a robe. It stood the height of a doorway, with a thickness greater than the full arm span of a grown man.Its weight made itself known the i
Chapter 321
One Auranveil remained.The last one.The one that had stood at the edge of the clearing from the very beginning, the first to detect Lein from afar, the one that had watched its three companions fall one after another, and now stood with its wings half-folded, its legs no longer completely steady, and golden eyes that no longer held anything resembling hunger or rage.Lein looked at it and asked calmly, “Do you still want to continue?”The Auranveil did not move.“If you still want to live, you may leave.”Lein had sensed it from the moment he first stepped into the depths of Vrethkaar. In this part of the forest, far beyond the reach of ordinary humans, the number of Auranveil could be counted on one hand. Not because they were weak, but because creatures this powerful did not reproduce quickly, and every death was a loss that could not be replaced in a short time.Three were enough, especially considering one had already been a corpse before he arrived.Four were more than enough.
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