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CHAPTER 58

Author: Queen of Pen
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-07-06 06:12:00

The mountain shook again. Not with the violence of an earthquake, with purpose. The vibration rolled beneath Grayson's boots like the steady beat of an enormous heart buried beneath the Ashen Pass.

Once.

Twice.

Then silence.

The forest no longer sounded alive.

The birds had vanished. The wind itself seemed afraid to move. Every hooded figure surrounding the clearing remained on one knee, heads bowed toward the distant mountain.

Noah tighte

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