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Chapter 171: The Aegis Wall
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HIS REJECTED GODDESS Chapter 171: The Aegis Wall
BOOK SIX: THE IRON CROWN(Jace’s Perspective)Hanging onto the underbelly of a merchant dirigible at ten thousand feet is not a matter of strength; it is a matter of absolute, unyielding focus. If my mind drifted for a fraction of a second, the kinetic anchor would slip, and Valerius and I would plummet two miles into the pitch-black eastern plains.For three hours, we rode the deafening, vibrating iron hull in complete silence. The freezing wind of the upper stratosphere whipped past us, but the localized celestial scrambler in my right hand held firm, bending the ambient air around our bodies to shield us from the worst of the thermal drop."We are approaching the perimeter," Torin transmitted through the psychic tether, his voice cutting cleanly through the roaring wind.I looked down.Breaking through the cloud cover directly beneath us was the Aegis Wall. It was a terrifying marvel of human engineering. A solid, hundred-mile-long barricade of black brick and Starved Iron, glowing
HIS REJECTED GODDESS Chapter 170: The Ghost Fleet
BOOK SIX: THE IRON CROWN(Jace’s Perspective)If you want to infiltrate an impenetrable fortress, you don't build a better battering ram. You just wait for the enemy to open the gates for their own returning soldiers, and you walk in behind them.The warm rain continued to fall over Aethelgard, washing the tension of the near-apocalypse into the cobblestone gutters. High above, the fifty merchant airships had completed their banking maneuver. Assuming they had just flattened the wolf capital into a two-inch layer of dust, they were adjusting their steam-propellers and setting a slow, victorious course back to the eastern territories.I stood on the wet roof of the Grandmaster’s Spire, my heavy leather coat soaked through."The eastern territories are protected by the Aegis Wall," Elias said, his golden eyes tracking the massive silhouettes retreating into the dark clouds. "It is a hundred-mile-long barricade of Starved Iron and steam-powered repeating ballistae. If the Vanguard approa
HIS REJECTED GODDESS Chapter 169: The Boiling Sky
BOOK SIX: THE IRON CROWN(Jace’s Perspective)You cannot hold up an ocean with a tuning fork. It doesn't matter if the fork is made of Starved Iron and the ocean is trapped in glass; gravity always collects its debts.SCREEECH.Another deafening groan of tearing metal echoed across the roof of the Grandmaster’s Spire. The massive, forty-foot prongs of the Lunar Bridge were physically bending inward. The invisible, mile-high Glass Canopy we had projected over Aethelgard was holding the thousands of glass vials perfectly still, but the canopy itself was anchored to the bridge.Millions of tons of localized, hydrostatic dead-weight were violently pressing down on the anti-gravity field."The structural integrity is at twenty percent!" Elara screamed over the howling wind, desperately pulling levers on the command console to reroute the stress. "Jace, the base pins are shearing! If the bridge snaps, the canopy dissolves, and the abyss drops directly onto the city!""Then we don't let it d
HIS REJECTED GODDESS Chapter 168: The Skyward Anvil
BOOK SIX: THE IRON CROWN(Jace’s Perspective)Retrofitting a machine designed to talk to the moon into a machine designed to catch an ocean is not a matter of simply pulling a lever. It requires tearing the physics of the world down to the studs and rebuilding them backward.The roof of the Grandmaster’s Spire was a storm of sparks, freezing wind, and raw, localized gravity. It was two hours past midnight. The massive, forty-foot Starved Iron prongs of the Lunar Bridge loomed above us, usually humming with a soft, downward-pulling celestial resonance.Tonight, we were ripping the core out."The inversion matrix is locked on the western prong!" Cord roared over the howling wind, his massive, silver-furred arms straining as he swung his sledgehammer into the heavy iron locking-pins at the base of the bridge. The sheer kinetic force of his strike echoed over the sleeping city of Aethelgard far below."Reroute the thermal exhaust!" I yelled back, my voice tight with exhaustion.I was stan
HIS REJECTED GODDESS Chapter 167: The Glass Canopy
BOOK SIX: THE IRON CROWN(Jace’s Perspective)There is a specific kind of silence that falls over a city right before it realizes it is at war. It is the sound of ignorance—the hum of the flex-rail trains, the distant clatter of the foundries, the laughter of children in the cobblestone squares. It is a terrifying, fragile peace.I stood on the highest balcony of the Grandmaster’s Spire, looking out over Aethelgard. The sun was setting, painting the sky in brilliant strokes of gold and violet. Less than a hundred miles to the west, we had just stopped a gravity cannon from flattening this entire continent. The people in the streets below had no idea how close they had come to becoming dust.And they had no idea that the weapons were built by the merchants they traded with every single day.The heavy mahogany doors to the command center groaned open behind me."The perimeter is locked, Architect," Torin’s echoing voice vibrated through the stone. "The Vanguard has established a two-hun
HIS REJECTED GODDESS Chapter 166: The Ghost Ledger
BOOK SIX: THE IRON CROWN(Jace’s Perspective)An empire doesn't die when its king is killed. It dies when its supply lines run dry. You cannot build a fifty-foot gravity cannon out of thin air and fanaticism; you need logistics.I stood at the edge of the perfectly smooth, smoking crater where the Crimson Engine used to be. The ash was still settling. The surviving Imperial soldiers were kneeling in the dirt, disarmed and surrounded by the towering, white-glowing forms of the Lunar Vanguard.Cord walked up beside me, his golden eyes fixed on the microscopic, ultra-dense sphere of iron sitting at the bottom of the crater."I've hit steel on an anvil for sixty years, boy," the Master Forge grunted, crossing his massive arms. "I've never seen metal folded that tight. It doesn't even look like iron anymore.""It's not just folded, Master. It's collapsed," I said, my voice quiet in the eerie silence of the canyon. "The atomic structure of the barrel couldn't handle the gravitational invers
HIS REJECTED GODDESS Chapter 4: Four Days North
On the second day my hair turned silver.Not all of it. A single streak, starting at my left temple, running back through the dark. I noticed it in the creek's reflection when we stopped to drink at midmorning. I stared at it for a long moment."That's new," I said.Zane crouched beside me and look
HIS REJECTED GODDESS Chapter 3: What Lives Under My Skin
We ran for three hours before the power did something new.I felt it building for about thirty seconds before it happened — a pressure behind my ribs, like breathing in too much air and having nowhere to put it. The silver at my wrist went bright. Not the faint thread of before. Bright, the way a l
HIS REJECTED GODDESS Chapter 2: The Man Who Knew My Name
"Who are you," I said again.My voice came out steadier than I felt. The silver light at my wrist was fading but not gone, a faint thread of it still tracing my pulse, visible in the dark like a glow under ice. My wolf was still howling somewhere deep inside me, that strange new howl that sounded n
HIS REJECTED GODDESS Chapter 1: The Words That Set Me Free
"I, Kaden Cross, Alpha of the Iron Crest Pack, reject you, Aria Vale, as my fated mate."The words hit me like a blade to the chest.Every single wolf in the great hall heard them. Three hundred people. Every elder, every warrior, every packmate I had grown up beside, every face I had known my whol
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