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Chapter 185 - QUESTION ❓

Chapter 182: Question ❓

A single mana-lamp burned on the main table, casting a pool of weak, lonely light.

And sitting in that light, cleaning his blade with a methodical, almost rhythmic motion, was Marcus.

He didn't look up as I entered.

His face was calm, his cultivator's mask firmly in place, but the air around him felt heavy, charged with a silent, suffocating pressure.

"You're back," he stated. It wasn't a question.

"I am." I walked into the light, dropping into the chair opposite him. I felt heavy. Not physically, but spiritually.

Marcus stopped cleaning his sword. He looked at me, his eyes dark and ancient.

"The docks are on fire," he said softly. "I can smell the smoke from here. And before that... I felt it. That energy."

He didn't ask what it was. He looked at me with the eyes of a man who had seen battlefields far bloodier than any D-Rank dungeon.

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