The Null Sect assassin struck at midnight.
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Silent.
Perfect.
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Too perfect.
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Elara let him come.
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That was the trap.
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The moment the blade passed through where her throat had been—
she moved.
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Not backward.
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Forward.
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Into him.
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The assassin froze.
Just for a second.
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Enough.
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Kael hit him from behind.
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Full force.
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The impact broke something.
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Not bone.
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Structure.
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The assassin flickered.
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For the first time—
fully visible.
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Thin.
Pale.
Wrong.
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He tried to vanish.
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Failed.
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Because Kael's system—
locked.
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[Pressure Inversion Activated]
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The space around him collapsed.
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The assassin screamed.
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Real this time.
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Liora's blade followed.
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Clean.
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Final.
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Silence.
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The body remained.
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That mattered most.
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They had killed—
something that wasn't supposed to exist.
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Elara exhaled slowly.
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"Well."
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She looked at Kael.
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"That's new."
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Kael nodded.
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"Yes."
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Then he looked down at the corpse.
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"And now they know."
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A pause.
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"We can kill them."
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That—
changed the war.