Chapter 126 The King Beneath the Stones
The underways of the Citadel breathed.
Not air, and memory.
Stone corridors narrowed into something older than architecture, ribs of the city pressing inward as Clara descended. Every step echoed too long, stretched thin by the scuttle and whisper that skittered just beyond sight. The smell was ro...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Prologue - The Night That Never Ends
2. Chapter 2 The Inheritance
3. Chapter 3 The BlackWood Nutcracker
4. Chapter 4 Nightmare Visions of Marching Boots
5. Chapter 5 Midnight Stirs the Curse
6. Chapter 6 The Opening
7. Chapter 7 Explosion of Magic 
8. Chapter 8 The Four Warriors Appear
9. Chapter 9 The Seal Mistress
10. Chapter 10 Introduction to the Curse Rules
11. Chapter 11 Shadows Whisper Her Name
12. Chapter 12 The Rat King's First Intrusion
13. Chapter 13 Lines in the Snow ( Warrior Dynamics & Territorial Tension )
14. Chapter 14 The Eve That Never Ended
15. Chapter 15 Gnawing the Frozen Hour
16. Chapter 16 The Portal Opens
17. Chapter 17 The Fall Between
18. Chapter 18 Carried Between Worlds
19. Chapter 19 The First Light Over Winterlight
20. Chapter 20 The Frozen Moon
21. Chapter 21 Ghost- Towns Decorating Themselves
22. Chapter 22 Where the Forest Remembers You
23. Chapter 23 The First Resonance
24. Chapter 24 What the Vale Withholds
25. Chapter 25 The Man Who Smiles at Storms
26. Chapter 26 Teeth in the Dark
27. Chapter 27 The Rat King's Claim
28. Chapter 28 The Mark That Waited
29. Chapter 29 Caelum and the Shape of Fear
30. Chapter 30 The Oath That Is Not Forever
31. Chapter 31 Discipline Is A Weapon
32. Chapter 32 The Trail of Instinct
33. Chapter 33 Nyx and the Weight of Flesh
34. Chapter 34 The Cost of Mending
35. Chapter 35 The Echo that Answers
36. Chapter 36 Emotional Cracks
37. Chapter 37 Elias's Past Leadership Revealed
38. Chapter 38 Aurelian's Private Loneliness
39. Chapter 39 Nyx's Nightmares
40. Chapter 40 Caelum's Devotion
41. Chapter 41 The Heat Between Them
42. Chapter 42 What Follows Heat
43. Chapter 43 Light Between Their Hands
44. Chapter 44 The Shape of Light
45. Chapter 45 Where the Light Sleeps
46. Chapter 46 The Illusion Trap
47. Chapter 47 When the Shadows Reach
48. Chapter 48 When Warriors Answer
49. Chapter 49 The Face Behind the Teeth
50. Chapter 50 The Choice He Couldn't Take
51. Chapter 51 Entering the Pale Citadel
52. Chapter 52 What Winter Remembers
53. Chapter 53 The Ice That Remembers Names
54. Chapter 54 What He Gave Away
55. Chapter 55 When the Dross Breaks
56. Chapter 56 The Choice Beneath the Ice
57. Chapter 57 Where the Bond Takes Root
58. Chapter 58 Where the Spark Takes Hold
59. Chapter 59 When Winter Falls Silent
60. Chapter 60 Carrying the Light ( Winter Trial Complete )
61. Chapter 61 Enter the Trickster's Labyrinth
62. Chapter 62 Where Lies Take Root
63. Chapter 63 What Autumn Buried
64. Chapter 64 The Shape of Distance
65. Chapter 65 Next
66. Chapter 66 The Labyrinth's Trial
67. Chapter 67 Loved Once
68. Chapter 68 Clara Chooses Honesty
69. Chapter 69 Where the Bond Deepens
70. Chapter 70 The Autumn Trial Complete
71. Chapter 71 Enter the Blazing Canyon
72. Chapter 72 Vale's Molten Rage Unchained
73. Chapter 73 Mirrors of Betrayal
74. Chapter 74 Vale Unbound
75. Chapter 75 Pulling Him Back
76. Chapter 76 The Truth Revealed
77. Chapter 77 Shadows in the Canyon
78. Chapter 78 Vale Breaks Open
79. Chapter 79 Holding the Storm
80. Chapter 80 The Summer Trail
81. Chapter 81 Enter the Garden of Rebirth ( The Final Trail& The Chosen Queen )
82. Chapter 82 The Weight of the Unsaved
83. Chapter 83 When the Fire Goes Dark
84. Chapter 84 The Choice to Stand
85. Chapter 85 Heat Without Fame
86. Chapter 86 The Fire That Answers
87. Chapter 87 The Weight that Holds
88. Chapter 88 What Rises From Ash and Light
89. Chapter 89 The Spring Seal
90. Chapter 90 The Verdict of Greenfire
91. Chapter 91 The Unified Bond
92. Chapter 92 Acceptance of the Four
93. Chapter 93 The Surge
94. Chapter 94 Mistress of the Realm
95. Chapter 95 The Prophecy Awakens
96. Chapter 96 The Village Fell
97. Chapter 97 The Power Arrived
98. Chapter 98 Coherence
99. Chapter 99 The Call That Remains
100. Chapter 100 The Price of Attention
101. Chapter 101 Refusal
102. Chapter 102 To Hold
103. Chapter 103 The Dream That Bled
104. Chapter 104 The Almost Claim
105. Chapter 105 The Circle of Steel
106. Chapter 106 Fractures in the Weave
107. Chapter 107 Truth
108. Chapter 108 The King's Curse
109. Chapter 109 What the Curse Became
110. Chapter 110 The Woman Who Almost Succeeded
111. Chapter 111 The Final Key
112. Chapter 112 The Siege of Winterlight
113. Chapter 113 Retreat to the Heart
114. Chapter 114 Vale Leads the Berserkers
115. Chapter 115 The Sigil Thief
116. Chapter 116 The Eve That Would Not Pass
117. Chapter 117 When the Palace Cracked
118. Chapter 118 The Mark That Burned Black
119. Chapter 119 The Weight Shared
120. Chapter 120 The Crown He Wanted
121. Chapter 121 The Shape of No
122. Chapter 122 The Nutcracker Throne
123. Chapter 123 What They Were Holding Back
124. Chapter 124 The Point of Impact
125. Chapter 125 Where Power Touches Skin
126. Chapter 126 The King Beneath the Stones
127. Chapter 127 Breaking the Nutcracker Curse
128. Chapter 128 The Warriors Freed
129. Chapter 129 The Coronation
130. Chapter 130 Queen of Winterlight
131. Chapter 131 Dawn of Winterlight
132. Chapter 132 First Council of Winterlight
133. Chapter 133 Shadows in the North
134. Chapter 134 Riven's Shadow Ledger
135. Chapter 135 The Festival of Renewal
136. Chapter 136 Vale's Vision of the Four
137. Chapter 137 Corvin's Gamble
138. Chapter 138 Dross's Trail
139. Chapter 139 Echos of the Rat King
140. Chapter 140 Clara's Heart, the People's Hope
141. Chapter 141 The Eternal Harem Bond
142. Chapter 142 Shadows Strike Back
143. Chapter 143 Ash vs . The Shadow Wraiths
144. Chapter 144 Vale's Power Unleashed
145. Chapter 145 Corvin Captured
146. Chapter 146 Dross's Leadership
147. Chapter 147 Kyren's Heart
148. Chapter 148 The Northern Siege
149. Chapter 149 Clara's Decision
150. Chapter 150 The Frozen Cathedral
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