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Chapter 363: Irreplaceable

“Be careful,” Argrave told Anneliese as he held her hand. “I think’s it’s pretty well-established you can take care of yourself, but I always hate sending you off.”

“I know. You...

Chapter 362: Stepping Outside

“This isn’t the same continent,” Argrave explained as his people looked around the vast open grasslands. “This isn’t even the same world. This is a different realm. Bridges between our re...

Chapter 361: Looking Into the Mirror

Argrave reached into his duster’s breast pocket and pulled free a silver medallion. It was of crude make, with strange letters and a worn image of a woman pouring water from a horn. He twisted it...

Chapter 360: Holy, Holy Mother

The capital of the wood elves in the Bloodwoods was not grand at all. It couldn’t be, for it never stayed in one place for too long. The only thing notable about it was that it was a true buildin...

Chapter 359: Wire Net

Orion stepped up a mound of roots, using several separate branches like steps of stairs until he crested the top. He looked out across the vastness of the Bloodwoods, then up, up, and up, at its to...

Chapter 358: All Converging

“I trust your journey here wasn’t difficult?” Princess Elenore asked from her desk, staring at the two in front of her. She had four golden-armored royal knights standing behind her.

Th...

Chapter 357: A Measured Response to the Unmeasurable

When Grimalt’s new liege returned, he thought that king looked rather trepidatious. He always had a keen intuition about how others felt, and the times he was wrong was more so misinterpretation ...

Chapter 356: Coast to Coast

Argrave stared at Nikoletta without batting an eye even as her eyes wavered on the point of frustrated tears. He couldn’t blame her for being distraught that he’d not come to help when her fath...

Chapter 355: Sea of Land

It was the morning of the next day. They had slept in a separate tent with the Veidimen. Argrave stared at a piece of soft bread with distinct finger marks. That had been his doing—in grabbing th...

Chapter 354: New and Old

The night came and went very quickly. Argrave and Anneliese spent a lot of time together, but they seldom did so while doing nothing more than enjoying each other’s company. In this manner, the j...

Chapter 353: The Reunion Union

Anneliese pushed open the fur flap of a traditional Veidimen tent, walking within. The first thing she saw was a wood-burning iron stove, its makeshift chimney piping smoke through a hole in the to...

Chapter 352: Familial Mending

Argrave stepped into the courtyard of the grand fortress that had been constructed at his behest some months ago. It marked the northern entrance to Blackgard where they’d tunneled through the mo...

Chapter 351: First Session

Completely slipped my mind to mention that 350 was the last chapter in volume 6. We're now on volume 7.

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A few dozen people occupied a spacious stone hall. They looked about the place...

Chapter 350: Dynastic Troubles

“I know that it might seem ridiculous,” Argrave said, one hand hovering near the other which held a wriggling salamander. “But these things… they’re the key.”

Reinhardt shook his ...

Chapter 349: A Malleable People

Argrave crossed his arms as he stared at Dras. “You’re poaching my talent? Really?”

Dras held his arms out as he sunk back into the purple couch. “I’m borrowing an old friend for a ...

Chapter 348: The Little Things

“As it turns out… I was right the entire time,” the brown-haired Duke Sumner said with a dignified triumph as he looked out across all the nobles of the south arrayed before him. “Argrave w...

Chapter 347: Guests from the Motherland

Galamon opened the door for Argrave and stepped through it ahead of him. Argrave followed after warily, keeping his eye on the knight-commander as though searching for a reaction. Within, Rowe and ...

Chapter 346: Puppet Chain

King Argrave’s unequivocal denial of the Order of the Gray Owl’s terms sent the throne room into a brief silence. Castro, who’d been keeping his eyes closed and stating his demands mechanical...

Chapter 345: Terms for Survival

After Elenore’s declaration that the summit could begin, there was a prevailing indecision in the parties arrayed before Argrave. Despite not having been declared the leader of this summit, his b...

Chapter 344: Summit of Dragons

Argrave hefted a crown in his hand—it had a black metal band, chicken egg-sized gemstones at several points, and gold decorating it gaudily. Everything seemed to be in order with it, so he looked...

Chapter 343: Blood's No Bond

Argrave stared at the dark gray corpse of the Shadowlander from his place at the entrance to the Dragon Palace. The monstrous humanoid had been laid across a makeshift wooden platform and secured b...

Chapter 342: Everyone is Here

Crackling from flames echoed against stone walls, the sound rebounding countless times throughout the vast chamber. These flames burned in braziers before grand statues of stone owls, illuminating ...

Chapter 341: Rightful Heir and Usurper

Argrave’s hand hovered near a heavy wooden door. He clenched his fingers into a fist and then slackened them time and time again, taking deep breaths all the while. He glanced backwards where Gal...

Chapter 340: Settling Dust

Anneliese held her finger up to the air, and her Starsparrow settled atop it as a perch. Argrave looked out where he could see the dust clouds left by the retreating army.

“I think they hea...

Chapter 339: Incomprehensible Mind

Argrave judged Traugott with cold, calculating eyes, the two of them standing atop opposite roofs with the city square between them. Though they’d not had time sufficient to interrogate Orion as ...

Chapter 338: After All This

Elenore had absolute focus on the area where the Shadowlander had tumbled down the mountainous path to the Dragon Palace. Sumner’s men were hardened warriors, fiercely loyal, well-equipped, and p...

Chapter 337: Ground Control

Elenore stepped into the grand chamber housing Vasquer, ancient ancestor of all the royal family of House Vasquer. The now freed serpent appeared emotionless, but it curved its huge body slowly aro...

Chapter 336: Return of the King

“It’ll be hard,” Argrave stared at Anneliese, both now on foot. “Not to mention the other problems we might encounter in the city. Everyone will need heavy security.”

Argrave’s wh...

Chapter 335: These Shadows Grow So Tall

Duke Rovostar crouched at the top of a hill, watching the Dragon Palace radiate shadow with morbid fascination. He, just as all his men, had felt the strange force that emanated outwards… and now...

Chapter 334: Ignorance of Haste

Orion stepped into the throne room of the Dragon Palace. He didn’t especially like coming here. It had grandiose carved marble walls depicting the gods, but that was about the only part of this p...