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Chapter 281 - STEEL AND BONE

Chapter 276: Steel and Bone

​The air inside the carriage didn't smell like ozone or burning mana anymore. It smelled of wet fur, stale blood, and the piercing, chemical stench of fear.

​The Snow Stalker landed on the floorboards with a heavy, wet thud, its claws carving deep gouges into the expensive mahogany. It was a nightmare of pale muscle and tension, its eyeless head twitching violently as it triangulated the frantic heartbeats surrounding it.

​"Leon, move!" I shouted.

​The command was physical, not magical. Without the [Commander's Voice] skill to compel obedience, my words were just sound waves. But Leon, conditioned by months of hellish training, reacted on instinct.

​He stepped forward, placing himself between the beast and the cowering students. He raised his greatsword—a heavy slab of enchanted mythril that usually hummed with holy light. Now, it was just a hundred pounds of dead weight.

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