Chapter 412: Family

Chapter 412: Family

Vincent/Vaelthor /Star~

I woke up with a jolt that shot through my entire body like a bolt of lightning from a clear sky. It felt like I’d been tossed around in some wild storm made of swirling shadows and blinding flashes of light, leaving me battered and disoriented. My limbs were heavy, as if they were weighted down by invisible chains, and my mind was all foggy, like trying to peer through a thick mist after a long, restless sleep. Everything felt pieced together wrong, like fragments from a nightmare that hadn’t quite faded away. The last clear memory I had was that excruciating pain—a searing agony that exploded across both my wrists, as if invisible blades were carving into my skin. There was no blood, no visible cuts or scars I could see, just this overwhelming burst of torment that ripped through my veins and turned the whole world pitch black. I’d been in the middle of a bustling market, surrounded by the chatter of vendors and the smell of spices, when it hit me. I honestly thought that was it—the end. Maybe some hidden poison finally catching up to me, or a curse I’d unknowingly triggered. But now... now I was alive, breathing, and definitely not in that market anymore. Where the heck was I?

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