Chapter 37: Seth Makes His Third MistakeTwelve days to the trial

Sovereign Cultivation Stage One was at forty-one percent and the movement integration had gotten good enough that Orion ran the thread continuously now, through training, through sparring, through breakfast and the walk between the manor and the training ground. The active circulation wasn’t always perfect. It frayed under high physical exertion and broke entirely if something hit him hard enough to spike his attention elsewhere. But it was there most of the time, quietly doing its work, the internal mana density building in slow reliable increments.

The system had revised its projection.

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