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The First Thing the Mountain Protected

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The creature fled deeper beneath the roots before dawn.

Not fully.

Not defeated.

But driven back far enough that the breach beneath the hidden chamber finally stopped widening.

Blackwood sealed around the wound like living flesh.

Silver roots twisted violently across the abyss while ancient runes burned themselves into the stone layer after layer after layer until the fracture became hidden beneath glowing spirals of witchfire and shadow.

The mountain did not relax afterward.

It tightened.

Ever
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