Chapter 20: The Silent Shadow

Three days after the Battle of the Crescent Valley, the Supreme Citadel entered a tense period of reconstruction.

Logan’s surviving guards were separated into three groups.

Those proven to have resisted the enhancement ritual received medical treatment and protection

Chapter 21: The Journey to the Shadow Lands

The western boundary of the five territories ended at a canyon called the Devil’s Throat.

The name had survived three dynasties, two territorial wars, and countless attempts to replace it with something less ominous. No official title endured because no

Chapter 22: The Rogue Massacre

The attack came before midnight.

Silas led Harper, Axel, Alistair, and the ten Blackwood guards along a narrow route beneath a collapsed stone watchtower. The passage had once been part of an old military road, but centuries of decay had reduced it to a trench betwee