A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 5482

Quincy and the others stood frozen for a heartbeat, then hurried after Jared as he strode toward the distant Obsidian Stone Sect.

Inside the sect's grand hall, Marius paced beneath towering braziers, an itch of dread tugging at his nerves. His eyelids twitched without cause.

"Activate every restriction at once," Marius barked. "I don't want a single trespasser slipping through!"

Ever cautious, he watched attendants sprint to obey, rune-lamps flaring as the barrier sealed shut around the mountain stronghold.

Immortal Lord Nimbus had laced the headquarters of Obsidian Stone Sect with a shimmering barrier—runic light flowing over the walls like moonlit water. Everyone thought it was unbreachable.

Yet the instant that barrier was activated, Jared strode onto the forecourt with Quincy and their weary companions at his heels, boots crunching across the black gravel as though the earth itself had summoned them.

Marius spotted Quincy and scowled, the scar running down his cheek twitching. "Quincy Lee, why aren't you breaking rock in Quarry No. 7? You looking to die?" he barked, voice echoing off basalt pillars.

His gaze slid past Quincy and locked onto Jared—a stranger in simple robes whose calm eyes gave away nothing.

Marius tried to probe the young man's cultivation level. Nothing answered. It was like staring into mist that swallowed every shred of spiritual sense.

Quincy's anger flared. He jabbed a shaking finger at Marius. "You animal! For a hundred years, you've chained human and beast race cultivators alike, worked us until our bones cracked. Today, someone has finally come to the end of you!"

Marius' smile flattened. "Big words, Quincy. Sounds like a century of pain hasn't broken you enough."

"Broken?" Quincy laughed, voice raw. "Blood ran like rivers when you first arrived. In these hundred years, the quarries have swallowed our kin—dead, crippled, forgotten. Did you really think we'd stay quiet forever?"

Marius snorted. "You're still alive only because you're useful. Strip that away and I'd have fed every last one of you to the furnace."

Quincy trembled. "Devil!"

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