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Chapter 292
Morning arrived, and the door of the treehouse swung open.Ryn stepped outside as he always did. Sael followed behind him, just as she always did.Lein stood at the edge of the massive branch, gazing over the forest he had looked upon every morning for the past four weeks."We're leaving for Vaelthorn tomorrow."Both of them stopped in their tracks.Ryn looked at him."Tomorrow?""Yes. Tomorrow."---The morning of their departure required little preparation, simply because there wasn't much to bring. A pouch of coins, a sword, and a change of clothes neatly packed into a small bundle slung over the shoulder.What took longer was something else entirely.Sael stood before the treehouse door, looking inside. Three rooms that hadn't existed four weeks ago. Beds woven from Ironcrown leaves, now molded into familiar shapes after countless nights of sleep. A small wooden table that no longer sat exactly where it had been placed the first time, having been moved around again and again.Ryn
Chapter 291
The next two weeks were not spent the same way as the previous two.Meditation remained part of his routine. Hunting remained part of his routine. The spiritual cores from the demonic beasts that failed to avoid crossing his path in the forest were still absorbed.But something had changed.The black sword at his side needed to be understood, and understanding a weapon was not something that could be accomplished simply by looking at it.Lein began with the basics. He felled the Ironcrown trees that had already been cracked during his previous battle, studying how the blade interacted with dense wood from different angles. Not every slash was equally effective from the same direction. The Ironcrown's uneven internal structure responded differently depending on where the blade struck and at what angle.A week spent with the Ironcrown trees taught him lessons that no theory ever could.During the following week, he brought the sword into real combat.The demonic beasts that charged at h
Chapter 290
Ten minutes passed.The pile no longer retained its original form. In its place was a single, dense, irregular mass, jet-black in color with a surface that gleamed from certain angles.Lein lifted the mass with both hands.Its weight was disproportionate to its size. It was far heavier than it appeared, yet not in a way that made it difficult to hold.He tapped it once with his knuckle.The sound that rang out was neither the sound of bone nor ordinary metal. It was something between the two, yet denser than either."It's harder than diamond," Lein murmured, more to himself than anyone else.On Earth, diamond had been the hardest naturally occurring material known. What he held in his hands now could no longer be measured by that same standard.Ryn stepped a little closer, his eyes fixed on the black mass in Lein's hands."What are you going to make with that?"Lein looked down at the mass."A sword."---The second stage required more than concentrated heat.Shaping something that ha
Chapter 289
Two weeks passed in Varkaan Forest with little variation, yet they never felt slow.Every night, Lein sat cross-legged on the branch he had come to know inside and out, allowing Xollos's spiritual energy to flow into him in a process that no longer required conscious effort. His body already understood it. The pathways within him had opened enough that he no longer needed to guide the energy through them one by one.And every few days, he ventured deeper into Varkaan Forest.Not to wander.The demon beasts that inhabited the forest came in all sizes and all realms, and most of them didn't need to be hunted—they came looking for him first. Lein simply made that a part of his routine. Whenever one approached with hostile intent, he ended it, took its spiritual core, and moved on.A spiritual core from a Mid-Star Realm demon beast was absorbed within minutes.One from a Peak Star Realm beast took longer, but the results were noticeably greater.The combination of meditation and spiritual
Chapter 288
Darkness had completely fallen by the time Edric's eyelids stirred.He opened his eyes.A ceiling woven from wood and thick leaves instead of ordinary beams. A bed made from layers of leaves, far more comfortable than such materials had any right to be. Beside it stood a small table crafted from neatly cut branches.Before he could fully process his surroundings, a voice came from his right."Are you hungry?"Lein stood there holding a bowl, wisps of steam still rising from its contents."You were unconscious for more than ten hours. You must be starving."Behind Lein stood two children. A boy whose posture no longer carried any trace of uncertainty, and a girl who looked at Edric with the open curiosity of someone still too young to hide it.Lein placed the bowl on the table beside Edric."Eat."Edric sat up, moving carefully as he examined his condition. His right shoulder. His left ribs. The places where Lein's fists had landed during their battle.Nothing felt wrong.Not a single
Chapter 287
The trunk of the Ironcrown tree, which had stood for centuries and could not be burned by ordinary flames, was torn in half by the mere touch of that energy.Lein saw it and decided that this was not the time to block.White energy surged from his dantian into both of his hands, flooding his aura sword until its current capacity could no longer contain it. The excess began to radiate from the blade in a different form—not as scattered light, but as something compressed, like water forced through a crack far too narrow to hold it.Then Lein released it.A massive crescent of white energy burst from the blade, racing toward Edric and the rapier already wrapped in its blue tornado.The two attacks collided at the same point.BOOOOM.The explosion did not erupt from a single point but from the entire space between them, expanding outward in every direction at once.Every Ironcrown tree within a twenty-meter radius was struck by the shockwave. Those whose roots were not deep enough lost th
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