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Chapter 46: The Order's Patience

The Obsidian Monastery had stood in the depths of the Whispering Mountains for seven hundred years, its black stone walls carved from the living rock by mages whose names had been deliberately forgotten. In the deepest chamber, far below even the ancient crypts where failed experiments lay entombed in crystalline prisons, Magister Aldric stood before the Convergence Table and watched the future reshape itself according to plans three centuries in the making.

The scrying crystals embedded in the massive circular table pulsed with information from across the known world, each one a node in an intelligence network that spanned kingdoms and continents. Reports flowed in constantly—troop movements, political upheavals, magical disturbances, and most importantly, the systematic consolidation of power that was proceeding exactly as the Order had predicted.

One year. One year since the catalyst had fled the western kingdoms, and the ripple effects were still s
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