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Chapter 314 - THE SCAPEGOAT

Chapter 310: The Scapegoat

​The summons arrived at dawn, carried not by a messenger, but by a pulse of mana that vibrated the very walls of the Guest Spire.

​" The High Council requires your presence in the Hall of Verdicts," Captain Aelion announced, the door to our quarters sliding open. "Do not speak unless spoken to. Do not cast magic. And do not look Elder Valen in the eye."

​We were marched out of the Spire, flanked by a dozen Silver Guards.

The city of Sylvaren was waking up, the bioluminescent moss on the buildings dimming as the artificial "sun" crystal above the World Tree began to glow. To the citizens we passed, we were a curiosity—a battered human hero, a commoner, and two changed girls. They didn't see the rot beneath the silver plating. They only saw the glamour.

​"Look at them," Maria whispered, her breath misting in the morning air. "Smiling. Trading. Existing. They are walking on a necro-layer of dead roots and they don't even know the ground is hollow."

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