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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED: The Ashes Of Memory

Penulis: Skye Wilder
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-08-31 18:31:45

The Vale was quieter than it had ever been.

Smoke no longer curled from the horizon, no screams of war echoed through the mountains. Instead, the air held the strange stillness that comes after devastation, where even the birds seemed uncertain if it was safe to sing again.

Maxim stood among the ruins, the Beast in him subdued, breathing the scent of stone and ash. Around him, people worked in silence—stacking stones, pulling bodies from the wreckage, planting seeds where the earth had been scorched. They moved as if in a dream, exhausted but alive.

Alive, because of her.

Elira’s name was on every tongue now. It rolled across the Vale like a hymn, carried in whispers and in cries. Children painted her symbol on the walls. Warriors sang of her in low voices around the fire. Mothers soothed their little ones with the story of the woman who had given everything so they could wake to another dawn.

At last, she was remembered.

And yet, Maxim felt the truth like a blade inside him: she was
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