The Queen’s Solar had transformed into an epicenter of destruction. The physical confrontation between Cedrik and Isolde was a blur of fury and Alpha power, a clash of titans that made the granite walls tremble and reduced the furniture to splinters. Cedrik fought with the precision of a warrior claiming justice, but Isolde, driven by centuries-old bitterness and a dark magic she had kept hidden in the shadows of her lineage, delivered blows that carried the chill of the void.At the climax of the duel, as Cedrik prepared for the mercy stroke, betrayal manifested. From the tapestries hidden in the walls, three Silver Janissaries, remnants of the elite that Cedrik believed he had decimated, leaped with daggers bathed in wolf’s blood—a paralyzing poison designed specifically to fell a sovereign. Cedrik, focused on the frontal combat with his mother, perceived the ambush too late. The vile metal sliced through the air toward his exposed back.“Now, my son, you will learn that destiny is
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