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Chapter 95 – Monarch’s Réquiem

Then, a sound broke through the silence-Laughter. Deep, resonant laughter echoed through the ruined hall.

The chains rattled. The wreckage shifted.

King Azure’s voice rumbled from beneath the debris, filled with amusement rather than anger. “Now this… this is interesting.”

With terrifying ease, he tore free from the debris and rose, the shattered chandelier still coiled around his body like a bandoleer as the fallen roof fragments crushed its frame against King Azure’s chest. As he straightened, the chains that had anchored the chandelier to the pillars rattled, seeming almost like restraints struggling to hold a monster in place.

With a single flex of his muscles, several chains snapped clean in half, while others ripped free from the pillars, dragging chunks of stone with them that crashed across the floor. As he twisted his arms, the severed ends of the chains whipped through the air before smashing against the marble floor with a