A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 5261

Alice looked little better. The blood-red current that had swirled around her body was gone, her frame shrunken back to its usual breadth. She stood bruised and caked in gore, breaths ragged—yet she still stood.

“Corin, you've lost,” she rasped, pride gleaming through the ruin of her voice. Corin's answer was a silent, bitter stare; he could only accept the verdict etched across the battlefield.

Disciples from the Sword Sect rushed in, steadying Corin with trembling arms. Rage blazed in their eyes, but despair weighed down every gesture—they all knew that if their master had fallen, their blades were nothing more than offerings to death.

Alice's gaze swept past them and locked onto Jared, sprawled amid broken masonry. Murder flashed behind her pupils. “Time to finish the last loose thread.”

She took one deliberate step, then another, toward the wounded man.

Lyra stumbled into her path, knees knocking, but spine held straight. “Y-You can't touch him!”

Alice barked a laugh. “Out of my way, child.”

With a casual flick of her sleeve, a harsh gust hurled Lyra aside, her cry swallowed by the rushing wind.

Just as her palm arced toward Jared's skull, a strained yet unbroken voice rose from the rubble. “I... I'm not dead... yet.”

Jared forced himself upright, bones crunching, limbs quivering. Pain twisted his features, but a crooked smile still found room on his blood-streaked lips. “Killing me... won't be that simple.”

Alice's surprise flared into fury. “Stubborn wretch! Die already!”

She raised her hand again, swinging it at Jared.

Why is he here? Jared's mind raced. Just this morning, he and Flaxseed had found not even a shadow of the man.

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