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Reborn in the Kingdom of Kings

The Forge Beneath the Temple

Chapter 12 · free to read

Three talwars in four weeks, every one of them gone at the tang. Rishabh's phrasing was kinder than the quartermaster's.

Four hundred years of dust on the anvil, and not one grain of it on the hammer.

Not strength. He kept waiting for the trial to be strength. It was six hours of holding a bar level while a blind man listened to his breathing.

The heavens had been following the scholar's lantern for two days. They came down the stair while the metal was still white.

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