How could I forget this intense hatred I had been suppressing for these Empire dogs?
I had sworn to myself that I would slaughter every last person responsible for what happened on the Sentinel Line.
After returning from the training with Aruma, I had been feeling empty. But now that I saw Astrid's face directly, the hatred, that intense emotion that had been missing, crashed over me like the bursting of a broken dam.
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"Wh-where am I?" Astrid muttered as he was freed from the ice prison.
"Th-this is the Ironvale Duchy," he murmured, instantly recognizing the place where he was born and raised.
As soon as he regained consciousness, he felt seven mountainous presences surrounding him from every direction.
His eyes moved, following those presences, finding the leader of each Bane Sect and the ancestor of the Thunderbanes encircling him.
In front of him stood Taranis, clad in abyssal black armor from head to toe.
