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CHAPTER 57: The Cost of Fire

작가: Calista Nyx
last update 게시일: 2026-09-22 00:42:42

The first divine wolf dies at sunrise.

He’s seventeen.

From a small mountain pack three territories east.

He tried to hold the surge alone.

Morgan receives the field report in silence.

“He didn’t rupture,” she says quietly.

“How?” Kade asks.

“Cardiac collapse.”

The room goes cold.

“Divine field overload,” Morgan continues. “He attempted amplification without stabilization.”

“He went to Ashcroft’s camp?” I ask.

“Yes.”

Of course he did.

Ashcroft isn’t recruiting through force.

He’s recruiting thr
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