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The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 660: A Timely Ally

Hopeful. Today was supposed to be a hopeful day.

After a long seclusion in training and reaching the Greater Marshal Exalt realm, it was finally time for Fallen Heaven to open. Beforehand, her leader, Ollanar, personally invited her to his throne room, a rare summon for one of her stature. So she entered, excited and nervous, barely containing her fidgeting shoulders. As she knelt before the great Primaere, the greatest freedom fighter in living memory, she waited with bated breath, bar...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 659: Best And Worst Reunion

Marcus hurriedly raised his arms in a cross-block, securing the ribs and vital organs. Black scales grew and thickened into the densest armor. In an instant, fast as lightning, a fist swung fiercely, driving the brass knuckles it wore into the scales, breaking apart several layers like brittle clay, the sheer weight behind the blow comparable to earthquakes of terrifying scales. Before it could reach his bare skin, Marcus leaped back, but a tremendous force crashed onto every inch of his body...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 658: Fallen Heaven Is Here

As Oscar sat, hearing Metures's voice sound more urgent and demanding, he wheeled for the living, tossing away the book, which landed on the floor with a loud thunk, pages sprawling out from the cover. He nearly lost control, having put too much force onto the wheels, spinning them wildly, almost breaking off. Avril arrived just in time and caught him, rebalancing his shaky wheelchair. He met her gaze, seeing the worry haunting her face full of sorrow and unwillingness. The voice returned, pa...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 657: It Is Time

There was a sound of shuffling as Carcoatl turned a quarter-way to face him, a few pebbles tossed away by his dragged robes, drumming sharp and clear before waning into echoes along the mountain's slope. Oscar didn't respond, watching the two suns leaving high noon and beginning their long trek toward the horizon. The Snail's shut eyes still locked on him, expecting an answer. Question after question, so many others wanted answers, but why did he have to reply? Oscar grasped his knees, the bo...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 656: Carcoatl's Question

"I've always challenged how the Blue Ocean Pavilion had been organized, but suddenly changing the traditions would rile up all the previous and current members," Remulus formed a bubble around them and flew out of the balcony, dragging Oscar and Avril along for the ride. "First and foremost, I have always been an educator. Minor Hall, Outer Hall, Inner Hall, Legacy Hall–" he clicked his tongue in clear disapproval of the Pavilion's halls, "too many divisions, a backward method that turned m...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 655: Haven Academy

Oscar opened his eyes, having finished communicating with Erden, who chose to remain in the Lands of Zeret, a shame but understandable. He sat in his wheelchair, wearing a fine dress shirt under a brown vest, paired off by a set of black pants, Isaac's usual garments. Harsh waves crashed on the rocks below, crawling up the walls of the precipice only to fall short and retreat for another try. He recognized this spot, and upon a quick glance through his new memories, Oscar felt claws render hi...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 654: Ready?

Four roads of long treks of white stairs descended from four sides of the crater, leading to the four palaces closest to his volcano. Millions of people traveled up, down, side to side, along these paths, nothing but a mass of black dots from his view. Carcoatl saw it all, feeling every step on the earth, hearing their voices, ending chatters of merchants, gatherings, and more, reaching his ears past the veil of clouds. His black lips grinned widely, satisfied by the great, lively morning. He...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 653: Inevitable Fight

Silence befell them. Ollanar wheezed and coughed for a moment, a flicker of weakness flashing across those gentle pupils, but as fast as they emerged, so too did they vanish, gone in a blink. He poured the wine through the gap in his mask, gulped the entire chalice dry, and dripped beads of wine into the clean table, the purplish elixir glistening on the golden mask. With a clean handkerchief, the Primaere carefully wiped the table, not leaving a single drop to remain. Oscar felt it odd to wa...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 652: Fate Determines All

"It is heartening to see one so devoted and caring. Truly, he is blessed. I come in peace and to bring news." A low yet magnetic soft voice filled the room, reaching Oscar behind the partly opened door. Just from the gentleness in the tone, Oscar envisioned a grass field under gentle sunlight, a breeze swaying the blades, not too harsh to tear them from their roots. The person was open and welcoming as if he had nothing to hide. Oscar frowned. The voice sounded familiar but hard to place on a...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 651: Visitors

Outside the door, the stranger stomped into the house, every step shaking the wooden floor to its foundations as if thousands of pounds had been concentrated in that figure. He matched Oscar's height, well over six feet, and not-so-burly frame, a simple glimpse past his white sleeves revealing dense, compact muscles. A pair of teal eyes shone and gazed into Oscar, reflecting his entire figure. He brushed his white hair aside and trotted in haste, clenching his fists as veins pressed against t...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 650: What I Want

Avril was very happy. She shuffled in the bed, dreaming in blissful peace. Despite being asleep, she knew her arms held onto Oscar and counted the beating of his heart as her head rested on his chest. His soft breathing rose and fell in a hypnotizing rhythm. She exhaled when he inhaled and inhaled when he exhaled, matching his pace in a soothing harmony.

Happiness, joy, comfort, she had it all in her arms. When she couldn't find her sister or mother, the traces long gone even after her ...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 649: He Had Her

She was there the entire time. Memories of the past years flooded Oscar's mind as he saw each and every day spent in this home, his heart warmed by the ceaseless hours of one-sided conversations and caring love. Every tender word, the cadence of her sonorous voice as she spent her time talking to him, thumped his heart, and tears trickled down his face. He gripped the armrests and tried to stand; oddly, only his hands pulled him up, the legs refusing to move even an iota of a muscle. The stre...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 648: Hope Rekindled

Days turned into weeks, and weeks flew by like a breeze as months rolled over into years. As usual, the forests bordering the Beak of Ra were still in full bloom, with no regard for the changing seasons or shifting weather. In the tranquility of the never-ending summer, Avril pushed Oscar on his wheelchair down the flat path, smooth and well-paved even after several years. A small thud reached her ears, and she halted, ending the constant squeaking of the wheels. Carefully, she stepped betwee...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 647: To Each Their Own

It was dawn. The boarded windows blocked light from peeking through, and even if they weren't, the flames from the Beak of Ra burned eternally right by her doorsteps, overtaking the cycle of day and night. But Avril knew it was dawn, having woken up to Oscar's schedule for decades. Yawning, she cracked her eyes open, still dark, and her senses returned like a wave washing over her body from toe to head. She felt someone in her arms and peeked down, smiling at the soft bed of black hair by her...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 646: Their Own Progression

Avril hummed a simple tune, sometimes whistling as her foot tapped the hard white wood. Solara had crafted the house well, leaving a finely cut slab of hard stone for a stove above a gap meant for a fire to burn and cook any on top. Her pot boiled, the lid clattering and spinning about the tip as if dancing to her song. She raised the lid, her ears perking from the sudden rising sounds of bubbles breaking en masse. The pleasant, delectable scent of cheese and herbs forced her to swallow her s...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 645: Remulus's Redemption

Remulus watched as Auren left his bubble of Ein. The young Exalt clamored in excitement and lunged straight for the arms of the strange blond one, a presence similar to his old friend, Caires, engraved in his figure, that of the dragon's. So this was the group the other Oscar, Demon, had gathered. He had seen many Exalts in his many years of tenure, yet these people were quite different. The bastard, Saul's, experiments have already progressed to this point at a great cost. Sweeping his gaze ...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 644: The Others

Demon opened his eyes, narrowing them at the unfamiliar scenery. Tall white trees rose from the fields of flame-like flowers in bloom, leaves of red, gold, yellow, and orange swaying gently to the breeze. His nails scratched and scarped on oddly hard knobs, and he noticed he was sitting in a wheelchair built from the same white material as the trees. As it turned out, he somehow made it inside an empty house with no furniture or even a decoration on the walls. He didn't get off and decided to...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 643: A Warm Welcome

Avril felt embarrassed, heat rising in her reddening cheeks. She had responded how she would regarding Oscar but didn't expect her habit to spill out her inner thoughts, like being naked before a crowd. Renn and Gloria smirked and quickly hid their lips behind their hands, their eyes, however, gazing at her with a playful gleam as if they had found a new toy to play with. Looking at Remulus, who sipped his tea silently, she pouted and cursed him inwardly for corrupting her children. Her mood ...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 642: Chance In The Lands of Zeret

Bits of moonlight glanced off the low, soft waves, their light skimming along the tides. The sound of the waves wafting gently on the sandy shores was oddly soothing, beat by beat, landing and receding, like the ticking of a clock in a quiet room. Avril recalled these shores, unable to hold down her smile. Here, she protected Oscar from hordes of beasts and kissed him for the first time. Perhaps she could start anew here and let Oscar rest and heal.

Unlike before, the shores were at pea...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 641: A Cursed Life

Avril remained silent for the remainder of the journey, tending to Oscar, Erden, and Maia. The entire family spoke not a word, even Gloria, the ever-cheerful and lively, solemn. As Gloria's healing light poured onto the afflicted areas, Avril undid the bandages and wiped their wounds clean, careful not to worsen the burns. The blackened chars left no inch of skin untouched, a darker hue on the coiling patterns resembling a frightening serpent refusing to let go. Simply undoing the bandages re...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 640: The Blue Flames Overcome

A small rainbow ember, soft and warm, entered her chest. While she did not know who Ignyres was and what an Ancient was, Maia chose to believe in the voice and allowed the stranger to delve into her core. Firstly, the power she sensed from the voice far outstripped the former Pavilion Master's, and she had an inkling she didn't have a choice. Her core screeched, lit aflame in dense blue flames. It felt as if she had swallowed magma, the heat burning inside her veins. Smoke leaked from her eye...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 639: Sirsi's Trampling

Avril inhaled deeply and calmed herself. Her shoulders and hands shook to the beating of her strained heart, so fast she could barely hear it drumming in her ears. Bit by bit, it slowed and dragged, recovering to its norm. She gripped her numb fingers on her staff and eyed Sirsi and Maia, who stared coldly at each other. Her eyes wandered to the high sky where the two King Exalts fought, hidden above the churning storm of time and black flames. Her gratitude to Remulus rose, his prudence savi...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 638: Escape To Zeret

"Erden…." Avril tried to settle down the wild Erden. His legs kicked everywhere wildly as if he was drowning and desperately trying to swim. A hoof slammed into the fireplace, breaking the pile of burning coals. She gripped his hooves, her strength enough to hold down Erden, quite telling of his current state. Careful not to aggravate his wound, Avril slowly wrapped him in vines, his breathing growing calmer under her pollen spell. Blood seeped into the surface of the thick bandages. Avril ...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 637: Farewell For Now

Maia blinked, wondering what exactly she was doing. After being saved by the strange Avril, she ended up in a fancy inn, sharing a meal with two brats, a strange old man wearing a mask, and Avril. The enticing scent of the freshly roasted chicken wafted and nearly caused a drool to spill from her lips. The moment she took a bite, the herbs and spices danced on her tongue, and the juices overflowed, its flavor striking her like a rock to the head. The vast pleasure caused her to moan, unbeliev...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 636: The End of Claude

"This is unacceptable! We must make a plea to the Primaere. Our long history must not be uprooted!" A man clad in scarlet armor shouted, throwing his helmet to the floor into a series of clangs, the sunlight from the glass ceiling glistening the red metal.

A part of the light forced its way into her sight. Blinking, Maia squinted and watched the helmet roll over the red carpet to the short steps before the emperor. Her eyes glanced over the emperor from toe to head, spotting several mor...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 635: Maia's Plea

Thirty years ago, at the climax of the great war, Maia fought fiercely against the prince, Charles Anholt Dragnar, his silver-haired figure flashing in a blur of light that zipped in zig-zags. The high-pitched shrills of his light pierced her ears, and her mind shook slightly, her Ein disrupted as her nearby flames wavered. Her snake anima, melded into her whip, hissed, sensing the encroaching danger and acting on its own will. The irritating sound held no problems for her anima; her senses l...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 634: The Past Hurts

Avril hastily unlatched the broken armor, tossing the pieces without care, a sound like glass shattering echoing behind her. Squeezing another wet towel, she wiped down most of his body, grimacing at the large scar, like a gaping hole, on his chest over where the core should be as if something had pierced through it. The droplet of grade-five healing elixir had done good work repairing Oscar's body, but this scar had come from the King Exalt, Saul, a mark that persisted unless she could find ...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 633: Avril's Vow

"Still alive?" Erden asked, groaning as his one good wing held the broken wing and the nearly-severed leg. The bits of sapphire armor flaked off, revealing his white fur.

"You're still alive, aren't you? Why ask such a meaningless question?" Demon replied. His vision blurred as the deep darkness of the spatial domain melded with the streaks of light burning from the stars and realms that passed by. From outside came the sound of their crossing, high-pitched tunes that resonated into a c...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 632: What Comes Next?

Auren wiped a bead of sweat from his brow and sighed into the deep pit, several tens of feet down. The workers had dug well. He rechecked his theorized formation on his scroll, tapping on the point corresponding to the hole before him. With his memory, he didn't need to recheck any notes, his memory never failing him at any moment, but as a rule, Lord Draven imposed on him to always double-check. Auren smiled, glancing over the formation again, proud of his handiwork. He lifted a pillar and s...

The Exalt - Act 4: Fallen Heaven - Chapter 631: Escaping By A Thread

The bright flame in his hand thumped, its beating akin to a warm heart as it swelled and diminished. Sewn by Ignyres's hands, the fire burned in a myriad of colors as if threads had been carefully woven into a singular masterpiece. Ignyres had taken quite a while to create it, and he endured much damage to his body, but the results were worth it. In a split second, the immense heat swelled, enveloping all in its epicenter. Hot winds blew, forcing back Lelith's hand slightly. Smoke steamed out...