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Chapter 141: The Betrayer's Bargain
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Bloodbound: The legacy of Serelai Chapter 144: The Heart of the Mountain
The journey back into the Whispering Mountains felt different. They were not slinking through hidden passes or clinging to shadows. They walked with a grim purpose, a procession of ghosts returning to claim a kingdom. The man Kael led them now, not as a scout, but as a general surveying the site of his greatest campaign.He chose a peak not for its hidden valleys, but for its arrogance. It was one of the highest in the range, a spear of grey stone that stabbed at the sky, its summit often shrouded in cloud. It was a challenge. A statement.They stood at its base, a tiny cluster of figures against the immense, silent bulk of the mountain. The wind here was a constant, roaring river of cold."Well, boy," the man Kael said, his voice almost swallowed by the gale. "This is it. Can you talk to this one?"Kael, the child, stepped forward. He was twelve, but he seemed both smaller and infinitely larger before the mountain. He didn't answer. He simply walked to the rock face, still streaked w
Bloodbound: The legacy of Serelai Chapter 143: The Cost of a Throne
The decision hung over Liora for two days as they travelled. The man Kael’s words were a seed, and it was taking root in the dark, fertile soil of her fear and her love.Become the power. Build a fortress.She watched her family. Ashiel, who now had to concentrate to remember the name of the stream they were following. Kael, whose new, lanky twelve-year-old frame seemed to ache with a weariness that had nothing to do with walking. Lyra, who had started chewing on her fingernails again, a habit she’d broken years ago.They were fraying. The constant flight was a slow acid, eating away at them.The man Kael, for his part, was a model of… not goodness, but usefulness. He found them a deserted farmstead to shelter in, its owners likely fled during the chaos. He knew how to jimmy a lock and find a hidden root cellar with a cache of last season’s potatoes and apples, wrinkled but edible. It was the first full meal they’d had in days.As they ate around a small fire in the farmhouse’s dusty
Bloodbound: The legacy of Serelai Chapter 142: The Trying Song
The rain fell, a soft, steady hush on the ruins. The family and the betrayer stood in a loose, awkward circle, the space between them charged with a thousand years of history and five minutes of bewildering truce.No one knew what to do. The immediate threat was gone, but a new, more complicated danger had taken its place. He stood there, rubbing his neck where Ashiel’s hands had been, looking more like a drowned, tired rat than a divine menace.It was Ronan who broke the silence. He spat on the wet ground, the sound sharp and final. “I don’t like it.”“No one asked you to,” the man Kael replied, his voice weary. He looked at Ashiel. “Well, brother? Going to finish the job? Or shall we find somewhere less… damp to continue this family reunion?”Ashiel didn’t move. He was a statue of conflict, his body still thrumming with the echo of his power, his mind a whirlwind of old hatred and new, unsettling facts. This man had just saved his son. The math of that was impossible to reconcile wi
Bloodbound: The legacy of Serelai Chapter 141: The Betrayer's Bargain
The world froze.Rain dripped from the broken stones. The Acquirers, their hands inches from Kael, halted mid-motion, looking to Theron for instruction. Theron had turned, his polished composure finally cracked, his eyes wide with shock and fury at the interruption.Ashiel stood rigid, the built-up power inside him sparking and fizzling in confused waves. He stared at his brother as if seeing a ghost, the ancient betrayal warring with the shocking reality of his presence.“You,” Ashiel breathed, the word a blade of pure hatred.The man, Kael, offered a thin, tired smile. “Me.” He stepped forward, ignoring the armed Acquirers as if they were harmless statues. His eyes swept over the family, over Liora’s protective stance, over Ronan’s raised axe, over Elara’s terrified grip on her knife, over Lyra clinging to her brother, over the now twelve-year-old Kael, who was panting with pain and exertion.His gaze lingered on the child who bore his name, and for a fleeting second, something unre
Bloodbound: The legacy of Serelai Chapter 140: The Chapel at the Edge of the World
They ran. There was no other word for it. They moved through the woods like ghosts, driven by a cold, sharp fear they hadn't felt since the days of the Blood Moon. Theron’s bounty had changed everything. Every rustle in the bushes could be a betrayer. Every distant figure on a hill could be an enemy.They traveled at night, sleeping in shifts during the day in thickets so dense the light barely reached them. They ate their dwindling supplies in silence, their ears straining for the sound of pursuit. The world, which had once been merely dangerous, was now actively hostile.Kael guided them, but his usual calm was frayed. The effort of constantly sensing the intentions of the land and the people on it was a relentless drain. He didn't complain, but Liora saw the way his shoulders slumped, the new hollows under his eyes. He was eleven years old, and he carried the weight of their safety like a stone on his heart.Ashiel was a paradox. The immediate, physical danger seemed to anchor him.
Bloodbound: The legacy of Serelai Chapter 139: The Bounty of Betrayal
The forest felt cleaner after they left the temple. The air was easier to breathe. The shadows between the trees were just shadows again, not hiding ancient ghosts. For the first time in a long time, they walked without the weight of a thousand years on their shoulders.But the world outside the forest had not changed.They made camp that night in a small, rocky hollow, a fire burning cheerfully in its centre. The mood was lighter, but it was a fragile thing. They had won a great victory in the past, but the problems of the present remained. They were still hunted. They were still running out of food. And Ashiel…He sat by the fire, staring into the flames. The clarity he had found in the temple was still there, but it was a quiet, thoughtful clarity, not the sharp edge of the protector. He was sifting through the pieces of himself, trying to understand what was left.“I remember the betrayal,” he said, his voice low. “I remember the look in his eyes. The feeling of the Oath… fraying.
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