In the great hall of the Rurik mansion, the Conclave was beginning to take shape.The tapestries had been raised with care, each one representing the founding clans of the Lycans: Volkov, Rurik, Dragunov, Baranov, Vasiliev, Kovalenko, and Chernov. The ancestral crests shimmered beneath the flames of the enchanted torches, which burned without consuming the air, with bluish-gray flames that danced to the rhythm of the power pulsing from the underground.In the center of the hall, the Circle of Blood and Oath was being drawn with millimetric precision by priests from different lineages. Ancient runes, made with the dust of a sleeping Alpha’s bones mixed with ritualistic blood and fragments of black silver, outlined the circle.The tables, arranged in a half-moon shape, would serve as the stage where the representatives of the clans would sit. But none of them dared treat the moment as a simple political meeting.There, reality trembled.At the top of the staircase that overlooked the en
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