Chapter 26

Adelaide’s POV

I slipped into the royal archives, shielded by Frostfang’s stealth cloak.

It masked my scent and muffled my steps, allowing me to glide through the high–security area like a wraith.

No need to search–the Bloodscar Campaign reports were neatly arranged on the upper shelf of the left oak bookcase.

I retreated to a dim corner of the archive room and, by faint light, began reviewing the dispatches one by one.

By the time I finished the last report, my blood felt frozen, and a bone–chilling dread spread through me.

Tears welled up uncontrollably, blurring my vision.

Ulrik and Velda, as reinforcements, rushed to the Bloodscar Border and plunged into the fray.

Their inexperience on the battlefield soon became apparent.

In the first battle, my uncle lunged to save Ulrik, his left arm severed by an enemy blade–a scene so visceral, it played out before

my eyes.

My youngest uncle, ever–vibrant and dashing in my memory, fell heroically before reinforcements could arrive.

My grandfather, struck by an arrow, was left critically wounded, leaving Ulrik to command subsequent engagements.

denying Ulrik and Velda’s pivotal

led troops into the Western Tribe’s Snowdeer

set fire to their arsenal, while Velda captured several

leverage that

after the treaty was signed in Snowdeer

reports made no mention

could mean either my grandfather deliberately concealed it, or he

light, he, as the commanding

stifled my grief and fury, replaced the documents, and

Frostfang, Beata awaited

a word, she handed me a note

it, I felt a

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Tribe soldiers, disguised as Dragon Ash wolves, were en route to the Southern

Tribe

said to Beata,

outfit. I’ll meet Lycan

needed to see

Erasmus tomorrow.”

now. It’s late,” Beata replied as usual,

“You rest to

voice slightly hoarse from

arrived at the palace and requested an

Majesty!” My voice, still rough from last

after Beata left, I’d cried into my pillow for hours. The pain of my family’s loss and the current

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