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Chapter 293 - THE GUARDIAN OF THE DEW

Chapter 289: The Guardian of the Dew

​The door to the Heart-Root Chamber didn't just break; it screamed.

​As Leon retracted the Breaker's Hammer, the shattered remains of the root-gate hissed, bleeding sap that looked disturbingly like black oil. The smell hit us instantly—a cloying, suffocating mixture of ozone, sulfur, and the sweet, sickly scent of rotting orchids.

​"Masks up," I ordered, my voice muffled by my scarf. "Don't breathe the spores."

​We stepped over the threshold.

​If the previous tunnels were the capillaries of the World Tree, this was the ventricle. The chamber was immense, a spherical hollow carved naturally inside the massive central taproot of the tree. The walls were lined with pulsing, golden veins that thrummed with a rhythm so deep I felt it in the marrow of my bones.

​Thrum-thrum. Thrum-thrum.

​But my eyes—and the greedy eyes of the Assassin beside me—were drawn to the center.

​There, in a natural basin formed by twisted white roots, lay the pool.

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