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Chapter 9. The Dangerous Contract
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The Cultivator's Revenge Chapter 200. The Heart of the Fortress
“Three minutes,” Anya hissed, her voice sharp and unyielding in the silence of the corridor. “Don’t waste them.”There was no time to reply. With the path open, the three of them slipped through the disabled gate, moving like shadows up the spiral staircase of ice.The silence of Cloud Peak Tower felt different now. It was no longer the stillness of reverence, but of menace. The frozen walls seemed to hold their breath, listening, watching, waiting. Every echo of their steps was swallowed whole. They were now in the enemy’s heart, the upper floors, a sanctum reserved only for the Grand Elders.They reached a landing, and the sight before them made Rayden and Orion halt.The corridor ahead was unlike the rest. Walls, ceiling, and floor, all sculpted from a single slab of black ice polished to mirror perfection. Their reflections stretched into infinity, distorted and ghostlike. The hallway was straight, empty, and far too quiet, leading to a single door at the end.And lining both side
The Cultivator's Revenge Chapter 199. The Watcher’s Breath
The sound of approaching footsteps echoed through the frozen corridor like a death march.Tap... tap... tap...That calm, deliberate rhythm struck the silence of Cloud Peak Tower like a hammer to glass, each step reverberating straight into Rayden and Orion’s nerves.“Damn,” Orion hissed, his hand freezing mid-motion above the glowing surface of the rune gate. The sweat on his temple was no longer from focus, it was fear, raw and suffocating. “We don’t have five minutes.”Rayden said nothing. In a heartbeat, his body dissolved into the shadows. He pressed against the icy wall, the pale blade he’d taken from a fallen guard glinting dully, swallowing the light instead of reflecting it.His amber eyes narrowed, fixed on the bend of the corridor ahead, where the sound would emerge. A short signal, just a tilt of his head, to Orion.Continue.Orion understood. Holding his breath, he placed his palms back onto the rune gate, forcing himself to resume the delicate inversion process while kee
The Cultivator's Revenge Chapter 198. Shadows
Anya’s signal was a silent gunshot, the start of a race against time. Rayden and Orion, waiting in the blind spot at the base of the tower, moved instantly.“Fifteen minutes,” Rayden whispered, his voice barely more than breath, swallowed by the cold wind. “Go.”They shot out of their hiding place, two shadows dissolving into the frozen architecture of Cloud Peak Tower.The inside of the tower was a labyrinth of majestic menace. Wide corridors carved from pure ice glowed with faint blue light, and massive pillars reached toward the high ceiling like the ribs of a frozen beast. The silence was suffocating, so dense that even their own breathing sounded like thunder in their ears.Orion led the way, his movements light and sure. He pointed to a narrow service passage hidden behind a massive ice statue, a secret route only known to the upper circles of the clan. “This way,” he murmured. “It’ll take us straight to the third level, past two main guard posts.”Rayden followed without sound,
The Cultivator's Revenge Chapter 197. The Bloom of the Eternal Ice Flower
Five days. Five days spent in whispers, planning, and a gnawing wait. Outside Orion’s isolated tower, the Silent Valley slowly transformed. The usually sacred silence was replaced by the bustle of solemn preparations.The festival day of the Bloom of the Eternal Ice Flower had finally arrived.The whole valley bathed in light. Lanterns carved from pure ice hung along the arched bridges, casting soft blue and silver glows.Beautiful ice statues, dragons, phoenixes, and ancient clan heroes, stood grandly at every corner, sparkling beneath the light of the two moons. The air was full of the tinkling of ice bells moved by the wind and the faint but melodious plucking of a lute, creating a magical, peaceful atmosphere.Clan members, wearing their finest white robes, gathered at the Moonlight Square. Their faces were full of anticipation and reverence, every eye was fixed on the highest mountain peak. There, precisely at midnight, the legendary ice flower would bloom for a moment.They had
The Cultivator's Revenge Chapter 196. The Plan
After the longest, most tense silence, she finally lifted her head. She looked at the two men before her, and in her eyes, doubt had vanished, replaced by frozen resolve. She nodded, a small but decisive movement that sealed the destiny of the three of them."I will help," she said, her voice steady, no longer cold, but sharp like the tip of an ice sword."Good! We don't have much time," said Orion, his voice now calm and full of calculation.The tower that had once been a monument of sorrow had now become the pulsing heart of a taut conspiracy.Anya stepped forward, her ice mask back in place, hiding all the turmoil beneath it. The other side of her, an intelligent overseer and a rebel long suppressed, now fully took command."Valerius is a creature obsessed with order," she said, her voice sharp and efficient. "And order…" she paused, looking at the two men before her, "is a tyrant's greatest weakness."Rayden and Orion learned to trust her skill. On the table that had just been cle
The Cultivator's Revenge Chapter 195. Three-Way Alliance
Time seemed to freeze behind the silent waterfall. Every droplet that fell from the ice wall petrified in the air before reaching the ground, as if reluctant to disturb the silence around the two men waiting for their fate.Rayden and Orion stood inside the narrow cave hidden behind the layers of ice. No one spoke. No one moved. Only their breath, two white clouds meeting and dissolving in the sharp air.Each second felt like an hour. Each second carried the possibility of an end.What if she didn’t come? thought Rayden. Or worse… what if she came not alone?The risk they were taking this time was more than life and death. It was a test of something far more fragile: trust. They were staking everything on a single, small conviction, that in Lady Anya’s heart there still remained a trace of the young girl who once admired Liana, not merely the cold soldier sculpted by Valerius.Orion stood beside him, calm on the surface but taut like a drawn bow. Under the moonlight piercing the ice c
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