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Chapter 11: The Lower Tower
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2026-09-10 23:37:29The first assault came before the rain had even finished soaking into the mud.
It was not an army. The High Council was too precise for that. Three hours after the portcullis sealed, a dozen black-cloaked figures scaled the eastern curtain wall under cover of the storm, their movements silent as smoke. They carried no banners. Only short blades coated in the same oily Void residue that had clung to the Inquisitor’s rod, and a single iron cage large enough for a woma
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The first assault came before the rain had even finished soaking into the mud.It was not an army. The High Council was too precise for that. Three hours after the portcullis sealed, a dozen black-cloaked figures scaled the eastern curtain wall under cover of the storm, their movements silent as smoke. They carried no banners. Only short blades coated in the same oily Void residue that had clung to the Inquisitor’s rod, and a single iron cage large enough for a woman.They never reached the upper keep.Kaelen met them on the battlements with a roar that shook loose stones from the parapet. Earth surged under his boots; the wall itself seemed to rise and swallow two of the climbers whole. Silas’s wind howled down the eastern face in a killing gale, ripping the remaining men from the stone and hurling them into the outer ditch. Gabriel’s frost sealed the breach in a glittering sheet of ice thicker than a man’s arm. Alexander a
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