Chapter 175

Zarek

I did not lose.

That is the first lie the world will try to tell.

I stand at the far edge of my territory where the stone drops away into rivers of magma, the heat rising in slow, obedient waves. The retreat was clean. Calculated. Every dragon I brought out returned. Every asset remains intact.

That matters.

What happened on dragon realm was not defeat.

It was revelation.

The girl survived.