Meanwhile, Jared and his beleaguered companions were ensnared within the clutches of the Five Great Sects.

Their allies, Montane Daemon, Igor, the valiant Catina, and the resourceful Tyler, all bore the brunt of grievous wounds.

They were ringed by the covetous eyes of the Celestial Darkmore Sect, Celestial Moon Sect, and Celestial Sun Sect, whose disciples encircled them with avarice gleaming in their eyes.

The Demon Seal Alliance’s century-long promises were a lure too seductive to ignore.

Heinrik, Edward, and Stuart couldn’t help but exchange knowing looks and burst into mirthful laughter.

Despite Lauden’s express prohibition, the temptation of the Demon Seal Alliance’s offerings was too strong to resist.

Everyone had their schemes, their secret desires, and now, they were all here, with Jared unwittingly cast as their prey, a fish laid bare upon the board, awaiting their will to carve.

“Will you surrender your life willingly, or must we wrest it from you ourselves?” Heinrik asked, his smirk playfully cruel.

Jared’s response was silence, but the relentless fire in his eyes was a silent testament to his unyielding spirit.

Inside Jared’s nascence, the nascence star seemed to stir, twinkling with defiance.

Facing the inevitable, Jared’s resolve hardened; he would go down fighting, determined to drag as many as he could with him into the abyss.

cohort scoffed at Jared’s tenacity, their sneers

“You overestimate yourself, boy.

over

Heinrik had barely unleashed his formidable aura when a sudden, icy rebuke sliced through the air, a powerful presence that quashed Heinrik’s burgeoning

Lauden, emerging alongside Keelan, leading a cadre of

twisted with

contorted subtly upon laying eyes

Delacroix, surely even you cannot disdain the Demon

Edward and Stuart, and the collective might of three

have to strike me down first to get to him,” Lauden

tell, is your stake in this young man’s fate?”

owes nothing to

he step beyond our sects’ bounds, his fate

Sects, such

forebears founded these sects on principles of

these degraded times, should we not honor their memory? Should we not hold fast to the last vestiges of our integrity? We are not butchers,

not forget, the Demon Sealing Alliance

consume even us?” Lauden’s voice thundered with righteous

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