A few more months passed.
Lucien turned twenty-six.
During those months, Lucien and Seran entered the void again.
Seran had studied the second hidden goblin-held world he found.
It had taken longer this time.
The goblins had learned.
Unfortunately for them, Seran was not ordinary.
And unfortunately for everyone involved, Lucien was very interested.
The moment Seran had finished mapping the world, they moved.
The world was harder to enter than the last one.
And once they broke through the sealed perimeter, Lucien understood why.
The goblins had prepared.
Three Covenant-Breaker clones waited inside.
The goblins had not merely guarded the place.
They had fortified their theft.
The moment Lucien and Seran appeared, the whole world reacted.
The three Covenant-Breakers attacked as if they had been waiting with knives pressed against the throat of fate itself.
Then the world erupted.
The battle was not like the first.
