Chapter 402: The Monarch's Gambit, The Kings Descend

The air in Hexia had grown heavy, thick with an unspoken tension that coiled around the city's neon-lit skyscrapers like a serpent. Jedrek stood on the balcony of his presidential suite, the night wind whipping at his coat. Below, the city was a river of light, a dazzling spectacle of life and commerce, yet he could feel the predatory currents stirring beneath its surface. The storm he had anticipated was no longer gathering; it had arrived. His sources within the Dragon Legion had confirmed...