All Chapters of Rejected by the lycan king: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Peace had a rhythm now.It flowed through Duskfall like a quiet song one carried in laughter, in lantern light, in stories traded across fire pits and stitched into children’s coats. The gates no longer glowed. The sigils no longer sparked.And still, their presence remained.Not in power.But in practice.Everywhere I looked, I saw the legacy of those trials not as marks of pain……but as the threads of a world still growing.1. The Flamebearer’s First ChoiceThe girl Elira had taken the Ninth Flame weeks ago.And now, it pulsed from her gently, like light beneath her skin.Not demanding. Not loud.Just waiting to be used.She had not yet opened a gate. She didn’t need to. The Flame didn’t seek trial anymore it sought compassion.Her first act as bearer was not a proclamation.It was a journey.To the border villages where Hollow and Crescent families were still learning to trust.There, she planted Spiral saplings.She told them stories.She listened.2. The Weaver DepartsOne mornin

I left Duskfall without fanfare.No procession.No speeches.No legacy trailing behind me like a shadow.Just a satchel, a walking stick, and the Ninth Flame burning softly beneath my skinquiet, constant, and no longer mine alone.The road ahead was unmarked.But I had learned long agoNot all journeys begin with a map.Some begin with letting go.1. The Road SouthThe southern lands had always been more myth than memory.Old maps called them “the Broken Expanse.”But when I arrived, I found nothing broken.Only wild.Grasses taller than men. Rivers that glittered silver at dusk. Trees whose trunks whispered in languages older than Hollow.I met a woman who spoke to bees.A boy who carved dreams into stone.An elder who hadn’t seen the sky in twenty years, and when he did, cried with joy.None of them knew me as Flamebearer.They simply called me traveler.And it was enough.2. A Gateless TownIn the valley of Lowen’s Bend, I found a town that had never once heard of the gates.No tri

There is a kind of stillness that doesn’t mean the world has stopped.It means the world has finally begun to breathe.That’s how life felt now.No gates.No thrones.No need to protect what had already rooted itself in peace.Every morning, I woke to birdsong and riverlight.Every evening, I watched the stars blink one by one, like distant lanterns of old keepers still watching over us.I never once missed the weight of the flame.Because its warmth had never truly left me.1. Letters and SeedsThe children of Duskfall still wrote me letters.Some on paper, some carved into leaves, others sent in jars filled with pressed flowers and smudged ink.“Dear Ophelia,” one said,“I touched the Gate of Fire with my dream. It told me I’m brave.”Another wrote,“Mama says the Spiral Tree whispered her name. Do trees get lonely?”I kept every letter in a wooden box by my bedside.And each time one arrived, I planted a Spiral seed in the grove behind my home.By now, the grove had become a forest

The Spiral Grove shimmered like a waking dream.Where petals had once bloomed, now hung threads of soft light each one humming faintly, glowing in tune with the breath of the world. I had never seen Duskfall so quiet. Not even during the Hollow Reclamation.And yet, this silence was not born of fear.It was reverence.Something ancient had stirred.Something that remembered every name we had forgotten.And it had chosen now to open.1. The Mirror in the SkyElira stood in the center of the Grove, face turned upward.The floating threads above us pulsed softly, knitting themselves into the outline of a massive mirror. It didn’t reflect the Spiral Trees. It didn’t show the city skyline.It showed possibility.One moment: I saw myself crowned in gold, ruling from a distant northern throne.Another: a quiet life by a river, Rafael still beside me, our hands tangled in garden soil.Then: a version of me who had never survived the Hollow Gate. A ghost, not a flamebearer.It changed with eac

The Tenth Gate had closed behind us.But it didn’t vanish.It left behind no portal, no sigil, no crown.Only understanding.A deeper stillness than I’d ever known. The kind that comes after surviving not just a war, but a world that tried to define you by what you’ve lost.Now, it was time to define ourselves by what we chose to become.1. The Spiral Grove AwakensIn the weeks that followed, the Spiral Grove began to change.New trees bloomed in unnatural shapes: one with glass-like leaves that rang like chimes in the wind; another with roots that pulsed like veins beneath the soil; yet another that grew sideways, reaching toward the setting sun.The Keepers gathered to study them, but we all knew:These trees had been seeded by the Gate.Each tree represented an unwritten possibility a story not yet told, a truth not yet chosen.Children began calling them the Becoming Trees.Elira named the grove anew:“The Archive of What Could Be.”2. Seris’s VisionOne morning, I found Seris in