The drop into the seventy-fourth tier was an absolute, blinding ignition.When the emerald type-block hands snapped around Elara’s waist and yanked her through the floor of the living signature, the icy sapphire prisms of the seventy-third layer were instantly melted away. The pressurized air ceased to feel cold, replaced by an intense, radiating heat that tasted of molten brass, liquid gold, and the raw, un-diluted authority of a world before the first border was ever drawn. She was not suspended or held; she was dropped squarely onto a massive, revolving circular platform made of pure, unpolished white marble that sat at the very epicenter of a boundless, golden abyss.Through the shimmering depths of the gold fluid surrounding her, the true master templates of the continent were suspended like ancient monuments. These were the original plates; uncut, un-edited, and completely stripped of the High Council's restrictive margins.The Seventy-Fourth Tier, her mind thundered, her co
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