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Rael stood atop the newly completed curtain wall that surrounded Assex, its towering height casting long shadows over the land. Sixty feet of impenetrable stone, reinforced with magic, patrolled day and night by soldiers and watched over by five thousand Elemental Blitz constructs. No force could reach this place on land, air, or sea without facing certain death. He had secured his home. But his mind wasn’t at peace. The Velthira—the exiled Vael’Thor house responsible for his father’s death—had been a splinter in his mind ever since he learned the truth. It was time. Rael knew it was time to find them and make them pay. And he was done waiting. The night before, Rael had spent hours reviewing every detail the Shadow had whispered to him. The Velthira stronghold was hidden deep in the Cu
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