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### **Chapter 18: The Architect's Reign**

The sun had not yet risen, but the Tsurugi Domain was already awake. The air was crisp and cold, filled with the rhythmic crunch of boots on frozen dirt and the distant, metallic clang of the forge beginning its first shift. This was the new rhythm of life, a beat I had composed, a tempo they were forced to follow.

I stood on my rock, overlooking the valley. Below me, in the pre-dawn gloom, the entire population of the town—nearly five hundred souls now—was assembled in the central courtyard. They moved in unison, their breath pluming in the cold air, their bodies flowing through the training forms Kenjiro had designed. Farmers, weavers, children, and the elderly, all practicing the same brutal, efficient strikes with wooden staves. It was a horrifying and beautiful sight. A society of soldiers.

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