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Chapter 148: The Upward Fall
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2026-06-15 04:52:40
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HIS REJECTED GODDESS Chapter 152: The Silver Vanguard
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HIS REJECTED GODDESS Chapter 150: The Celestial Forge
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HIS REJECTED GODDESS Chapter 149: The Celestial Anchor
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HIS REJECTED GODDESS Chapter 148: The Upward Fall
BOOK FIVE: THE LUNAR ECLIPSE(Jace’s Perspective)There is a point at the edge of the atmosphere where the earth stops fighting to keep you, and the sky starts trying to pull you away.We rode the northern flex-rail line until the tracks simply ran out, ending at a fortified mining outpost buried in the permafrost. From there, we climbed.The peak known as the Goddess’s Tear was thirty-two thousand feet above sea level. It was a jagged, brutal spire of black ice and ancient granite that pierced straight through the cloud cover. The air was so thin it tasted like copper, and the temperature hovered at a terrifying forty below zero.I marched near the back of our small group, wrapped in heavy, Starved Iron-lined furs to keep my core temperature stable. My breath crystallized the second it left my lips. My ruined hands, wrapped in thick leather gloves, throbbed with a dull, rhythmic ache. The higher we climbed, the fainter the thump-thump of the earth’s Deep Nodes became."Keep moving, M
HIS REJECTED GODDESS Chapter 147: The Silent Gravity
BOOK FIVE: THE LUNAR ECLIPSE(Jace’s Perspective)We rushed Torin into the highest medical ward of the Grandmaster’s Spire. It took six fully armored Vanguard soldiers just to hold the convulsing general down on the reinforced steel table."Hold his spine!" Elias roared, his hands pressing down on Torin’s shoulders. The Sovereign's face was pale, his own hands shaking as the ambient lunar withdrawal began to set into his own bones.Torin screamed. It wasn't a human sound, and it wasn't a wolf's howl. It was the horrific, tearing sound of biology trying to expand into a form that was strictly prohibited by physics. His ribs violently flared outward, cracking audibly under his skin, only to snap back into a human shape a microsecond later."His cellular structure is stuck in a loop," Elara said, her hands glowing with a soft, green ambient healing voltage as she pressed them against Torin’s chest. "I can heal the fractures, but I can't stop the trigger. Something is telling his body to
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