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CHAPTER 119: THE GLASS PEACE

Author: Jewel Ndukwu
last update publish date: 2026-03-29 10:30:34

​The victory at the Black-Glass Flats didn't feel like a triumph by noon. It felt like a fever dream that was slowly turning into a cold sweat.

​The Iron-Guard had returned to the Spire as heroes, their obsidian-gauntlets stained with the white carbon-fiber dust of the Liquidators. But as the "Black Bloom" adrenaline receded, the infirmaries in Sector 3 began to fill. The "Sync-Fever" was hitting the first battalion hard, soldiers shivering under thermal blankets, their skin glo
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