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“Three explorers,” Kaelen muttered. “And no tamer. Stupid.”
“We’re going into the Sunken Vault,” she said. “Deep third stratum. There’s a relic that can clear our guild’s debt to the Crown. But the guardian is a Chimera of Echoes. We can’t kill it. But a tamer could turn it.” adventure of the outlawed tamer with beautiful explorers raw
Kaelen laughed—a dry, ugly sound. “You want the outlawed tamer to help you. For what? Coin? I’m dead either way.”
Sera slashed a vine clean in two, but two more took its place. “Lira! The western route!” Want me to continue into Chapter 2, add
“For a map,” Lira cut in. “To the Unchained Springs. A place even the Empire’s brand can’t follow.”
Kaelen looked at her hand. Then at Vesper, who had returned to bracelet form and was pulsing warm. Stupid
Kaelen should have walked away. Outlawed. Hunted. The last thing he needed was to reveal his taming. But Vesper uncoiled from his wrist and grew to the size of a hound, scales shimmering violet.
Kaelen ducked behind a collapsed pillar as a trio of Imperial Seekers swept their mana-lanterns over the chasm. Their cloaks bore the Golden Scale—the guild that had branded him for the crime of taming a “Grade-S” beast without a license. The beast, a juvenile Void Serpent named Vesper, currently coiled around his ankle in the form of a silver bracelet.