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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
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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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The Auranveil that had slammed into the Ironcrown tree had already turned around and charged back.It was even angrier than before. Its head still throbbed from the impact, but its body had already processed the pain. All that remained now was rage, with only one target left for it—a lone man standing in the middle of the clearing who, by all rights, should no longer exist.Its foreclaws rose.Not one.Both.Two gigantic claws descended simultaneously from different heights, one from the left and one from the right, crossing in a pattern that sealed off every possible path of escape to either side.Lein raised his sword.White energy surged into the blade, this time not fed gradually but poured into it all at once, dense and concentrated until the black sword disappeared beneath the brilliant radiance engulfing it.Claws and blade met at the midpoint.For one second, nothing moved.Then—BOOM.It was not the sound of impact.It was an explosion.The energies colliding at that single p
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Vrethkaar's Forest.Lein looked at the three remaining Auranveil.“How much longer are the three of you going to cower over there?” His voice carried no mockery, no forced provocation. It was simply a statement. “Come. Face me.”Three seconds passed.Perhaps they did not understand the human language. Or perhaps they understood far more than any beast should, because what could be read from the way the three Auranveil moved afterward was not an instinctive response.It was rage.RRAAUUGH!All three roared in unison, and the sound that erupted from three chests the size of massive halls echoed far beyond this clearing. Deep within the sunless depths of Vrethkaar, creatures that had never feared anything fell silent all at once.Then the three of them charged.The first moved the fastest.Its enormous body tore across the distance between them so quickly that the forest floor had no time to react to each impact of its claws. Its half-spread wings drove it forward from behind, and its ja
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The first Aurenveil moved.Not like a lion running. Not like a bird flying. Something in between, moving with a speed that gave the forest floor no time to respond each time its claws touched the ground, its half-unfurled wings driving its massive body forward far faster than its size should have allowed.Its mouth opened.Wide.Far too wide for any creature that should have existed. Its lower jaw dropped until it seemed the hinges of its own bones had surrendered to gravity, revealing rows of fangs whose sizes varied wildly. The foremost ones were as large as the body of a grown man, while those deeper inside were smaller but no less razor-sharp. Beyond them lay a wet, steaming darkness that reeked of blood left to stagnate for far too long.Large enough to swallow ten human bodies in a single bite.Lein tilted his body.Not by much. Nothing dramatic. Just enough to move the left side of his body out of the upper jaw's path, and in the same motion, his black sword swept horizontally.
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The scent of blood reached his senses before his eyes did.Iron, and something older than iron—warmer, heavier.Then the gap between the towering trees ahead opened into something far broader than he had expected from the outside, a natural clearing at the heart of the forest, where several massive Ironcrown trees had fallen long ago, leaving behind an open stretch of earth.And there they were. Four Aurenveils.Lein stopped at the edge of the clearing.His eyes took in the scene before him without the slightest haste.Four demonic beasts shaped like lions, but with golden wings.Their bodies alone were enormous, each the size of ten warhorses, with muscles so dense they were visible even from this distance. Their claws carved grooves into Vrethkaar's hardened earth simply by standing there. Broad heads. Heavy jaws. Fangs so massive they remained visible even with their mouths closed because there was simply no other way for them to fit.But those bodies were not the first thing that
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