While we spent our grueling days wrestling with the stubborn, ancient granite of the Great Peak, a different kind of pressure began to mount from the suffocating, emerald depths of the forests below. Fenris, the exiled King, hadn’t simply vanished into the mists of history to lick his wounds and fade away. He was a creature of pride and silver, and pride did not die quietly. He had retreated into the "Outer Wilds"—those vast, untamed regions where the Architects’ cold, genetic reach had never touched the local wolf populations.These were the Ferals. They were not the sleek, intelligent warriors of the Silver Lineage, nor were they the tactical, half-shifted soldiers of the future. They were massive, primeval beasts the size of small horses, their fur matted with the resin of ancient pines and their eyes devoid of anything but a singular, predatory focus. They lacked the Silver Gene’s cold, calculated refinement, but they possessed a raw, terrifying physical strength that made the m
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