Eternalib
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Chapter 12: Preparation Armored Dragon Calendar Year 415 – Claude, Age 10 --- I hit a plateau. For months, my skills had been improving steadily. Sword techniques becoming smoother. Magic growing stronger. The presences inside my head growing clearer with each passing day. Then everything stopped. My body refused to advance beyond a certain point, no matter how hard I pushed. The techniques that had been sharpening now blunted against an invisible wall. Progress that had seemed inevitable became…-
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Chapter 10: Why I Follow Him Armored Dragon Calendar Year 413 – Charles, Age 19 --- I was twelve when the slavers took me. They came at night, moving through our village with the practiced efficiency of men who had done this many times before. Torches flickered between the houses, throwing shadows that made everything seem unreal. The screams started moments after the first door was kicked in, and they didn't stop for what felt like hours. My father died trying to fight them. He had been a carpenter, a…
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Chapter 9: Side Job Armored Dragon Calendar Year 414 – Claude, Age 9 --- A year had passed since Rudeus left for Roa. The forge fire crackled before me, throwing shadows across the workshop walls. I pulled the blade from the flames, examining the color of the metal with eyes that had learned to read steel like a language. Not quite ready. A few more minutes. The color was wrong—too bright at the edge, too dark near the spine. The blade needed even heating throughout its length, or the differential…
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Chapter 8: To Err is Humane Armored Dragon Calendar Year 413 – Claude, Age 8 --- Rudeus had left for Roa three days ago. I stood at the edge of the training ground where we had sparred so many times, the space feeling emptier now without him. His movements had improved remarkably over the past year under Paul's instruction, the clumsy child becoming something closer to a competent fighter. Not a swordsman in the true sense. He would never match Ghislaine or Paul in pure blade work. But he had learned…
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Chapter 7: Blood on the Road Armored Dragon Calendar Year 413 – Claude, Age 8 --- The intelligence came three days before the slavers arrived. Charles had established a network of informants along the main trade routes, merchants and travelers who knew to watch for the signs. Caged wagons traveling at night. Groups of hard-eyed men with weapons they didn't bother to hide. The particular kind of silence that surrounded people who traded in human misery. Our network had grown carefully over the past year,…
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Chapter 6: Right on Track Armored Dragon Calendar Year 413 – Claude, Age 8 --- The beastwoman arrived at the village on a morning that smelled of autumn. I was practicing forms in the field behind Paul's house when I first saw her. She moved with the predatory grace of a born fighter, her tanned skin and beast ears marking her as something far more dangerous than the ordinary travelers who passed through Buena. Everything about her spoke of violence honed to perfection. The way she walked, each step…
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Chapter 5: Anything Wrong? Armored Dragon Calendar Year 412 – Claude, Age 7 --- Two years had passed since the water shattered my mind. I was eight now, though most days I felt much older. The morning sun warmed my face as I sat on the cottage steps, working a small piece of metal between my fingers. The material had been infused with mana during the forging process, turning it from simple iron into something that could hold enchantments. My experiments with magic tools had been yielding mixed results.…
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Chapter 5B: Memories Armored Dragon Calendar Year 410 --- The fragments came to me in dreams. Not the normal dreams of childhood—chasing butterflies, playing with friends, simple fears of the dark. These were different. These were memories that didn't belong to me, yet lived inside my skull as vividly as my own experiences. Being a Miko of Convergence meant the memories didn't follow normal rules of time. Deaths from parallel universes could bleed through regardless of when they occurred—past,…
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Chapter 4: My Son, A Stranger Armored Dragon Calendar Year 410 – Roland POV --- My son was not the boy I raised. The thought had been growing in me for months, lodged in my chest like a splinter I couldn't reach. I watched Claude shape metal at the smaller anvil, his small hands moving with a precision that made no sense for a child who had only been working the forge for a few months. The hammer fell in a rhythm I knew well. Too well. It was the rhythm of a master craftsman, not a boy of six. The way…
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Chapter 3: What Happened to Me? Armored Dragon Calendar Year 410 – Six Months After the Awakening --- Six months since the water struck my forehead. Six months since the world cracked open and poured its secrets into my skull. I still didn't understand what had happened to me. But I was learning to use it. Rain drummed against the roof of Paul's house as I stepped inside, water dripping from my soaked clothes onto the wooden floor. The familiar scent of wet earth followed me in, mixing with the warmth…
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