Bonded To The Alpha God of War
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The first light of dawn had only begun to touch the edge of the sky when Lucien’s men reached the border of the Red Moon lands.
Mist lay low across the ground, thin and pale, sliding around iron boots and armored legs. Each step they took parted it slowly, the fog curling back in their wake as if it was trying to hide what they carried. The land ahead was wide, stripped bare long ago… no trees, no tall grass, no shadows deep enough to shelter a man. A place built for watching and killing.
At the heart of that emptiness rose the stone mound.
It jutted from the earth like a raw, unhealed scar… towering, bare, and unprotected. Its sides were jagged and battered, as though the stone itself had