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Chapter 138 — A Kingdom Divided

Author: B.S. Turaki
last update publish date: 2026-06-06 06:40:50

Kaelen’s POV

The city of Asteris was unraveling. We could see it clearly now through the shattered western walls of the Academy ruins. Fire spread across the lower districts while citizens flooded through the streets in terrified waves beneath ringing emergency bells. Black fractures carved through parts of the capital like wounds splitting open beneath the city itself, spilling silver-shadow light upward from somewhere deep below the mountain. The gate’s influence was spreading. And panic was
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