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His expression had already changed before the door finished moving, shifting from an expression that revealed nothing into something that could not be completely concealed, even by someone as skilled at hiding almost everything as he was—the happiness of someone who had just seen the end of something long and arduous finally within his grasp.His right hand moved naturally, without any instruction from his mind, toward his waist.Making sure once again that the knife was still there.It was.“Come in quickly.” His voice was low, not a whisper, but far quieter than his usual volume. “Make sure no one sees you.”The Silent Reaper did not move.Bravan frowned.One second, two, and the silhouette before him was still standing in the same position, not turning around, not responding, in a manner unlike someone who had just finished carrying out a mission and returned to report its completion.“Damn it.” His voice dropped even lower, but something within it was different from the calmness t
Chapter 344
Lein stared at the corpse lying on the corridor floor.Nothing had changed in his expression from the way he had looked at the empty corridor before. Not because he was trying to maintain a particular expression, but because there was nothing to maintain. A corpse was the result of a decision, and the decision had already been made, and there was nothing left from it that needed to be kept within any expression.This woman had chosen a long road before reaching its end here.It was not his place to mourn her.Lein shifted his gaze toward King Vaelthorn’s chamber door.Behind the thick wood, the sound of steady breathing continued. Nothing had changed. The sleeping king had heard nothing of what had just happened outside his chamber because nothing had been loud enough to reach his ears.Lein stared at the door for several seconds.Inside his mind, something was being put together. Not a lengthy plan, but something simpler than that, a single step that, when viewed from the right angle
Chapter 343
Her hand trembled against the floor.She raised her gaze toward Lein standing before her, and within her, something that had not existed for a very long time found its place for the first time.Fear.Not a small fear. Not something that could be suppressed through sheer stubbornness or by reminding herself of how much she had already endured.This was fear that came from the deepest part of her, from the most primitive part of herself that still understood the difference between something that could be fought and something that could not.This man had defeated her without showing even the slightest expression that indicated he had exerted any effort. One finger to stop her sword. One flick to break a blade that had long surpassed the limits of ordinary iron. One punch to make the entire foundation of her abilities collapse.And the way he stood now had not changed from the way he had stood at the beginning, as though what had just happened was not significant enough to alter the way h
Chapter 342
The Silent Reaper did not answer.Her hand moved.The sword was drawn from the sheath on her back in a single, highly trained motion, so practiced that there was no sound of metal scraping against the sheath, no pause between drawing and attacking—the two movements were one and the same.Her body spun, her shoulder leading as the sword followed in a horizontal arc aimed not at his body, but at his neck, a point she had already identified from sound alone. In the darkness of this corridor, with the man’s presence emitting nothing at all, sound was the only reference she could use.It was fast.Faster than most Sky Realm cultivators Lein had ever faced.And incredibly silent.Yet Lein merely raised one finger to deal with the attack.His index finger was positioned directly in the path of the incoming blade, as if he had already read where the sword would end up before its swing had even reached halfway.The sword met his finger.And stopped.It did not slow down. It did not struggle ag
Chapter 341
Some time earlier.In Lyris’s territory within the Royal Palace of Vaelthorn, there was an ancient tree standing in the corner of the garden, its trunk larger than the others, with branches that had grown in directions no one had ever planned, yet somehow produced an incredibly dense canopy.On one of its highest branches, Lein sat cross-legged.His eyes were closed. His back was straight. Both palms rested on his knees in the manner of someone so accustomed to this position that his body no longer needed to think about adjusting itself into the proper posture.In Xollos, the spiritual energy flowing through the air possessed an extraordinary density.Because of that, not even a single day could be wasted without absorbing as much of it as possible.Sleep could be postponed, even ignored.Progress, however? Never.The night in Vaelthorn passed in much the same way as the nights before. A wind that was not particularly strong, the sound of crystals mounted on the outer pillars shifting
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The Silent Reaper did not move for two seconds.“Six thousand men.”It was not a question. It was more like someone repeating a number to verify that what she had heard was indeed what had been said.“That’s impossible.” There was no longer any trace of a smile in her voice. “You must be boasting.”“Enough.” Bravan took over before the conversation could continue in an unproductive direction. “There’s no need to discuss that any further. The point is, move quickly, don’t attract anyone’s attention, and finish the job efficiently.” His eyes remained fixed on the woman. “That is why we are paying you.”The Silent Reaper stared at him for a second.Then she nodded.“Understood.”Inside her mind, the number six thousand was still there, circling in a place that could not be cleared away with a simple nod.Impossible.No cultivator could defeat six thousand people alone unless they had already reached the God Realm, and throughout all of Xollos, only one name had ever reached that point. V
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