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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 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 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 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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Chapter 2: Why Did He Stop? Armored Dragon Calendar Year 410 – One Week After the Awakening --- 'Every morning was the same prayer. Please let them not find me today.' It never worked. I lay in bed watching pale light creep through our small window, listening to my parents' quiet movements in the next room. Mother was humming something soft while preparing breakfast. Father's heavier footsteps moved toward the door, probably heading out to check the livestock. These sounds should have been comforting.…
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Chapter 1: The Miko's Awakening Armored Dragon Calendar Year 410 – Claude, Age 5 --- The morning air carried the familiar sounds of Buena Village waking. Roosters called from wooden coops while the distant rhythm of hammer on anvil echoed from my father's smithy. Wood smoke drifted from chimneys, mixing with the scent of dew-soaked earth. I kicked at loose pebbles on the dirt path, watching them scatter into tall grass. The sun had barely crested the eastern hills, painting weathered thatch roofs in soft…
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Chapter 11: Build Up Armored Dragon Calendar Year 414 – Claude, Age 9 --- I was nine years old when the orb appeared in the sky. Paul noticed it first, squinting up at the heavens during our morning training session. The sun had just cleared the eastern hills, painting the sky in shades of gold and amber, when he stopped mid-swing and stared. "What the hell is that?" I followed his gaze, and my blood ran cold. A sphere hung above the distant horizon, barely visible against the blue expanse. Faint and…
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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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