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Steel clanged, bodies collided, the air thick with the iron tang of blood and the sweat of desperation.
Through it all, Soren felt it. Not just Travian’s presence at his back, but something deeper. The sigil.
A pulse.
Faint, but growing.
It throbbed in the air like a second heartbeat, alive, ancient, hungry. Each breath seemed to feed it, each strike of steel fanning its awakening flame.
And Soren realized, with bone-deep certainty—if that seal broke free, none of them might leave this room alive.
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The clash of steel filled the small chamber, too narrow to contain so much violence. The lantern light flared and guttered with each jarring strike, throwing jagged shadows across the
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