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Chapter 142 - The Burden Shared

A faint dawn light filtered through a sparse pine grove, its snow-laden branches casting long shadows across a narrow trail leading back to the western valley. Kael El crouched by a small fire, his team's camp a cluster of bedrolls and packs, the southern ruin's vault now a day's march behind them. Stormforged Blade rested against a tree, shard-pommel humming faintly, like a song half-forgotten. EX: Dragonflame Reaver lay sheathed at his hip, Stormhide Armor dusted with frost, Lyra's fierce spirit and Rhea's gentle love steadying his heavy heart. His flirty smirk was absent, replaced by a troubled gaze, masking a gnawing dilemma—the First Code's knowledge, etched in his mind, and the choice of how to share it with the valley. He brushed EX: Gold Dominion, golden veins threading weakly through the frozen ground, molten but faint, echoing the shard's weary pulse.

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