Chapter 20 — Vaelrion The Dragon King AwakensFirst, there was fire—no flicker, no timid glow, but a cataclysm reborn, tearing through the emptiness within him like a newborn sun’s wrath. It was ancient hunger, merciless and unbound, roaring through his veins, coiling around bone and sinew, igniting every rune etched into his soul. His magic—silent, dormant across the ages—erupted in a deafening roar as though shattered chains fell away at once.Vaelrion’s lids split open. Darkness splintered. The hush of centuries shattered like glass, and the world slammed into him in a furious collision of memory and destiny, breath and longing. For one suspended heartbeat he lay still, crushed by the weight of his own return: centuries of dreamless sleep, the cruel oppression of that binding curse, the ache of endless time pressing against his chest.Then—the bond ignited.It did not whisper its power. It blasted through him, a supernova blazing in his core, flooding him with the truth denied for
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