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Chapter 132: The Trench Engine

Author: Nova Thorne
last update publish date: 2026-06-05 01:51:09

BOOK FOUR: THE ABYSSAL TIDE

(Jace’s Perspective)

Water always takes the path of least resistance. When you build a dam of pure gravity and weaponize the plumbing, the ocean does not stubbornly continue to beat its head against the iron. It simply flows somewhere else.

I sat on the edge of a mahogany desk in the Grandmaster’s Spire, my black-veined hands wrapped around a mug of scalding black tea. It had been forty-eight hours since we fired the Abyssal Crawlers out of the harbor vents.

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