Chapter 52: The Auditing BladeThe salt-heavy air of Port Valen always smelled of rot and coin, but today, it carried the sharp, metallic tang of impending ruin.Beta Vance stood at the precipice of the Grand Merchant Quarter, his grey eyes cutting through the sea-mist like a predator scouting a shallow reef. Behind him, a dozen Lycan enforcers sat atop massive, dark-furred mounts, their breaths pluming in the damp morning cold. They didn’t need to growl; their mere presence hushed the usual chaotic bartering of the docks.For centuries, the merchant lords of Valen had padded their pockets under the lax oversight of the fallen Abyssal Purebloods. They had grown fat on stolen tithes, hidden ledgers, and black-market trade that should have filled the pack’s central treasury.But the old world was dead. The Great Divide had been conquered, and the Continental Reconstruction was not a request—it was a decree."Lord Vance," a trembling voice broke his focus. It was Master Boros, the head o
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