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Chapter 86

Author: Marva
last update publish date: 2026-07-10 19:52:36

The First Queen's Wrath

​POV: General Vesh (Elara Vance)

Grief can be a destructive force, but when combined with the divine essence of a resurrected god, it spells disaster on an unimaginable scale.

At that moment, I was numb to the coldness of the Cathedral. The exhaustion that usually weighed down my muscles was gone. Instead, all I could feel was an all-consuming, furious energy brewing inside me—something apocalyptic. The mental connection I had with Kaelen, a beautiful golden thread linki
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