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From weight .

The rain over the Etris Docks never fell straight. It whipped sideways, stinging like salt-flung needles, and beneath the creaking hulls of galleons, a crowd had gathered. Not for fish. Not for a hanging. For a grave.

“You idiot,” she hissed. “What did it show you?” deepwoken earth piercer

“The truth about the Mantra of Piercing,” he whispered. “It’s not for killing. It’s for exposing .”

Soryn laughed—a hollow, wet sound. “Boy, the Depths are kinder than what you’ll find down there. The Church’s ghosts don’t forgive.” From weight

But Harran saw the truth. The Church didn’t want the breach sealed. They wanted it directed —aimed like a cannon at the city of Celtor, to wipe out a political rival.

The stone slab at his feet had changed. Where once the carving was inert, now it glowed a faint, deep amber. And beneath Kaelen’s own feet, he felt it—a distant, resonant thrum . The Earth Piercer’s final fragment wasn’t a weapon. It was a key. And somewhere beneath the rotting floorboards of the docks, in a submerged vault the Church thought lost, Harran’s true legacy waited: not destruction, but the location of every hidden deal, every false idol, every lie the great powers of the Luminant had buried. Not for fish

Kaelen looked at his hands. They were trembling, but not from fear.