Chapter 39: The Duel Begins

Chapter 39: The Duel Begins

The arena thrummed under eternal night, transformed by Alexander’s cunning condition into a shadowed predator’s domain—velvet-black sky arched infinite overhead, ablaze with diamond-sharp constellations wheeling slow and the twin moons casting silvery-blue pools across the ochre sands.

Their glow fracturing into prismatic shards on embedded quartz flecks that crunched underfoot like brittle stars.

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