Chapter 8 · free to read
Vyasa taught the astral arts for four hundred years before the kingdom buried it and called the hole a mercy.
The first fire-war. The kingdom outlawed the art, buried the school, and then forgot what it was afraid of.
The altar had waited an age for royal-astral blood. It had no way to ask whose.
Fourteen years to find a teacher, and the first thing it asked was what he wanted.
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