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Chapter 74: Who Said Ironwake Was Most Likely First? · Oct 17, 2026

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51 Chapter 51: After Two First Places, the Regional Warden Seat Has to Be Fought For 2026-10-17
52 Chapter 52: This Fight Gives No Points—and I’m Taking It Anyway 2026-10-17
53 Chapter 53: A Legendary Shows Up—and Tries to Run 2026-10-17
54 Chapter 54: This Core Trait, I’ll Take It Myself 2026-10-17
55 Chapter 55: My First Wave Is Already Over—You Haven’t Even Started? 2026-10-17
56 Chapter 56: I Won’t Wait for the First Ten Waves—After That, I’ll Take It Slow 2026-10-17
57 Chapter 57: The Region Won. I Haven’t Yet 2026-10-17
58 Chapter 58: Ten Million Arrives—and the Regional Warden Seat Is Mine 2026-10-17
59 Chapter 59: The Fountain of Life Is Built—and the First Life Essence 2026-10-17
60 Chapter 60: C-Grade Aptitude—and One Rocketier Volley Wipes Out Half the Canyon 2026-10-17
61 Chapter 61: Legendary Hero to Level 20—and This Sword Cuts Through High-Grade Recovery 2026-10-17
62 Chapter 62: Meteor Hell Descends—and an A-Grade Environment Seal Drops 2026-10-17
63 Chapter 63: An A-Grade Environment—and Forgotten Shrine Gains Another Layer 2026-10-17
64 Chapter 64: If You Want Out, Leave Today. Those Who Stay Name the Region. 2026-10-17
65 Chapter 65: Black Banner Opens the Pool—Riftward at 8.0 Odds 2026-10-17
66 Chapter 66: Ninety Points Unlock the Warbody Route—and the Warden Gate Opens to the Outer March 2026-10-17
67 Chapter 67: Elara Runs Into a Level 30 Epic—So I Send Her a Level 20 Stormlance 2026-10-17
68 Chapter 68: Rank IV—and Black Banner Is Already at the Door 2026-10-17
69 Chapter 69: Twenty Rockets Clear the Field—and the One Who Opened the Gate Exposes Himself 2026-10-17
70 Chapter 70: Three Seconds Before Lock—I Put 250,000 on Riftward 2026-10-17
71 Chapter 71: Sable March Takes Fourth—Stoneward Takes Third 2026-10-17
72 Chapter 72: I Said Riftward Was First—They Said It Was Impossible 2026-10-17
73 Chapter 73: Region Fortune Lands—and the Aether Vein Evolves With It 2026-10-17
74 Chapter 74: Who Said Ironwake Was Most Likely First? 2026-10-17
75 Chapter 75: All Twelve Stormlance Reach Legendary—Crystal Bastion! 2026-10-17
76 Chapter 76: Ten Thousand Renown Finally Put to Use—Black Banner Changes Tactics 2026-10-17
77 Chapter 77: Agriculture! Three Points of Fortune on the Line 2026-10-17
78 Chapter 78: Ten Epic Fields Go Into Production—The Crystal Mother Really Is Inside 2026-10-17
79 Chapter 79: Black Banner Keeps Adding to the Wager 2026-10-17
80 Chapter 80: Kill Points! Rank V! Mistveil March! 2026-10-17
81 Chapter 81: Now This Is How You Farm Points—Three Fortune Secured 2026-10-17
82 Chapter 82: Sable Falls to Negative Two—Time to Bargain with the Crystal Mother 2026-10-17
83 Chapter 83: Twelve Crystal Maiden Embryos—and Editable Attributes 2026-10-17
84 Chapter 84: Crystal One’s First Fight—Now This Is the Troop I Wanted 2026-10-17
85 Chapter 85: Riftward Breaks Into the Top Ten—and the Truth Slips Out 2026-10-17
86 Chapter 86: The Enemy’s Eyes Are Mine—and the First Real Region War Begins 2026-10-17
87 Chapter 87: Tenfold Kill Points Delivered to My Door—Rank VI, Right Now 2026-10-17
88 Chapter 88: They Think Riftward Hasn’t Moved—My People Are Already Here 2026-10-17
89 Chapter 89: Sitting Ducks! Twelve Bloodcrystal Bats Take Flight 2026-10-17
90 Chapter 90: The Twelve Were Only the First Layer—No One Gets Out 2026-10-17
91 Chapter 91: Rank 2? You Invaded Northwatch, So I’ll Slaughter Duskmoor 2026-10-17
92 Chapter 92: Duskmoor Goes Gray—Riftward Takes First 2026-10-17
93 Chapter 93: They’re Sending Me Money Again—and a Legendary Blood Chalice 2026-10-17
94 Chapter 94: A Legendary Troop Building—and First Place Revealed 2026-10-17
95 Chapter 95: Sixty Points of Strength—and a Larger Riftward 2026-10-17
96 Chapter 96: Trust the Warden—and a Resource Instance Appears 2026-10-17
97 Chapter 97: They Chose the Category Themselves 2026-10-17
98 Chapter 98: Let Them Feel Despair—and Recruit the Dawnwings 2026-10-17
99 Chapter 99: Another Wild Domain—and Another Fortune Duel Won 2026-10-17
100 Chapter 100: Wipe Them Out—and a Technology Crystal 2026-10-17

Gareth did not ask for a market price first.

There was no stable market price for Life Water.

The Fountain of Life produced ten bottles a day.

Cassian had used it.

Aurelia had used it.

Celia had used it.

One hundred seconds.

For those hundred seconds, the drinker received the same concentrated Life Energy recovery effect as the Fountain itself.

For an ordinary Lord, this was not a daily potion.

It was the kind of resource that mattered in a high-level battle, when someone’s strength had nearly run dry and one recovery window could push them back into the fight.

Stoneward had just taken third.

Gareth understood that value better than most.

[Gareth Halvern: Recovery was exactly what Stoneward lacked in the final Waves.]

[Gareth Halvern: I’m not asking how you got the Fountain.]

[Gareth Halvern: One bottle. I want it stored for the next time I truly need it.]

Cassian answered directly.

[Cassian Vale: 500,000 Aether.]

[Cassian Vale: One bottle only. No Exchange listing. No bulk supply.]

[Cassian Vale: Do not disclose the Fountain’s inventory or production cadence. Do not resell this bottle.]

Gareth went silent for three seconds.

[Gareth Halvern: You’re not charging me for a potion.]

[Gareth Halvern: You’re charging me for one recovery window in the next high-level battle.]

[Cassian Vale: Yes.]

[Gareth Halvern: Expensive.]

[Cassian Vale: Then I don’t sell.]

Two more seconds passed.

[Gareth Halvern: Deal.]

He did not bargain it down to four hundred fifty thousand.

He did not add a vague favor for later.

Those conditions were part of the deal.

[Life Water ×1 transferred]

[Life Water: 46 → 45]

[Aether Crystal +500,000]

[Aether Crystal: 3,075,266 → 3,575,266]

Five hundred thousand.

One bottle.

But that did not mean Life Water had acquired a permanent five-hundred-thousand-Aether unit price.

Stoneward had just taken third.

Gareth had personally felt the cost of insufficient recovery in the high-level Waves.

What he was buying now was an emergency reserve he could keep in storage for the next hard fight.

And the deal included no public listing, no bulk supply, and confidentiality.

If someone else came tomorrow with another five hundred thousand, Cassian might not sell a second bottle at all.

The Fountain produced ten a day.

Those ten were Forgotten Shrine’s recovery reserve.

They were not ten units of daily Exchange inventory waiting to be sold.

Veyra stood nearby, one brow rising when she saw the price.

”Your Fountain makes ten a day.”

”Mm.”

”This bottle went for five hundred thousand.”

”This bottle.”

”And the second?”

”I never said I was selling one.”

Veyra watched him for two breaths.

”So five hundred thousand isn’t the unit price.”

”It’s what Gareth will pay today, when he needs one and I’m only releasing one.”

”That sounds more like you.”

Gareth’s messages were not finished.

[Gareth Halvern: One thing first.]

[Gareth Halvern: This Life Water is a transaction.]

[Gareth Halvern: If the next Ranking puts us on the same board, I’m still fighting for first.]

Cassian replied,

[Cassian Vale: You should.]

[Gareth Halvern: I thought you’d say ”welcome.”]

[Cassian Vale: You’ll come anyway.]

The other side paused for a while.

[Gareth Halvern: True.]

Stoneward was not a Riftward subordinate.

Third place had not turned Gareth into Cassian’s man.

Life Water could be sold.

Cooperation could be negotiated.

And when the next first place was worth fighting for, they would fight for it again.

Cassian preferred that kind of relationship.

Clear boundaries.

Clear accounts.

Veyra did not return to the training area immediately.

Instead, she pushed a cup toward Cassian.

No feast.

Just the warm wine Bram had sent in with dinner.

”Drink.”

Cassian looked at her.

”What?”

”You got first.”

”You got your twelve times.”

”And you just sold one Life Water for five hundred thousand.”

Veyra leaned back in her chair.

”Didn’t you say you actually wanted first?”

”Mm.”

”Then drink first.”

”Deal with the money and attributes afterward.”

Cassian paused for one breath.

Then he picked up the cup and drank.

The wine was not expensive.

It was worth less than almost any Rare material in his storage.

But for the length of that cup, he did not have the Exchange open at the same time.

Veyra noticed.

Only then did she smile.

”That’s better.”

Cassian set the cup down.

”Finished.”

”I saw.”

”Then I can deal with them now.”

Veyra stared at him.

Then closed her eyes for a moment.

”At least you actually finished the drink.”

Cassian had just reopened his attribute panel when the Shattered Marches Channel lit up first.

It was not Riftward celebrating.

Someone on Black Banner’s side still had not swallowed the result.

[Black Banner Lord: It’s one Ranking.]

[Black Banner Lord: Later Regions knew more of the rules, prepared more completely, and stayed in longer. None of that was wrong.]

[Anonymous Lord: Ironwake did fight longer than Riftward.]

[Black Banner Lord: So don’t act like one first place means every earlier judgment was wrong.]

The channel paused for half a beat.

Varek did not appear.

Neither did Nadia Serr.

But several of the people who had been calling Ironwake the likely winner before Rank 2 had started talking again.

Tobias watched for a few seconds.

Then he posted an old screenshot.

[Varek Sorn: The first batch tested the War Drum, recovery window, and high-level Waves for everyone behind them.]

[Varek Sorn: Later Regions will obviously push farther.]

Tobias added one line beneath it.

[Tobias Reed: Right.]

Then another.

[Tobias Reed: They did push farther.]

[Tobias Reed: Just not higher.]

The Shattered Marches Channel went dead silent.

Then the messages hit all at once.

[Anonymous Warden: ...]

[Anonymous Lord: You actually kept that screenshot?]

[Rowan Ashford: This is not part of Regional Patrol duties.]

[Tobias Reed: Personal hobby.]

The Black Banner Lord answered immediately.

[Black Banner Lord: That statement wasn’t wrong.]

[Black Banner Lord: Stoneward, Ironwake, and Sable March all stayed in longer than Riftward.]

Tobias did not argue.

He posted another screenshot.

This one was not from days ago.

It was from just before Rank 2 had been announced.

[Black Banner Lord: Riftward locked its score early. That’s a fact.]

[Black Banner Lord: Later Regions had the larger advantage. That’s also a fact.]

[Anonymous Warden: So first is still most likely Ironwake.]

Under the screenshot, Tobias asked only one question.

[Tobias Reed: Who was it that just said Ironwake was most likely first?]

The channel went blank for two full seconds.

The Black Banner Lord who had said it did not answer.

Someone else tried to cover for him.

[Black Banner Lord: That was the public information at the time. No one gets every judgment right.]

[Tobias Reed: True.]

[Tobias Reed: I didn’t ask you to.]

[Tobias Reed: I’m just putting the result next to what you said.]

Elara followed.

[Elara Vayne: You told Cassian to wait for the result.]

[Elara Vayne: The result is here.]

Seraphine appeared next.

[Seraphine Valcrest: Before Rank 2 came out, he said Riftward was first.]

[Seraphine Valcrest: You said Ironwake.]

[Seraphine Valcrest: There’s nothing left to analyze.]

From Stoneward, Gareth sent a single line.

[Gareth Halvern: Third is third. Second is second. First is first.]

The next message slowed the channel even more.

It came from Darian Frost.

[Darian Frost: I took second.]

[Darian Frost: Don’t turn my second place into first for me.]

Ironwake’s own Warden had said it.

A large part of the defense around Ironwake disappeared immediately.

But someone from Black Banner still refused to let it go.

[Black Banner Lord: Riftward taking first doesn’t mean the later-entry advantage didn’t exist.]

[Black Banner Lord: Varek saying later Regions would push farther was still true.]

Tobias replied at once.

[Tobias Reed: I never said it wasn’t.]

[Tobias Reed: I said they didn’t finish higher.]

Another wall of ellipses followed.

This time, Varek finally appeared.

[Varek Sorn: Later Regions did know more and did push farther.]

Tobias waited one second.

[Tobias Reed: We just read that part.]

[Tobias Reed: Who got first?]

The channel went quiet again.

One second.

Two.

Three.

Varek did not answer immediately.

Nadia Serr spoke first instead.

[Nadia Serr: The wager already settled with Riftward in first.]

[Nadia Serr: If the Rank-1 call lost, don’t try to rename the result afterward.]

Even Black Banner’s own side had said it now.

Tobias did not let the opening close.

[Tobias Reed: Varek?]

Two more seconds passed.

Then the answer appeared.

[Varek Sorn: Riftward.]

One word.

Tobias answered immediately.

[Tobias Reed: Good.]

[Tobias Reed: Then I’m keeping the old screenshot.]

The channel erupted in laughter and ellipses.

[Anonymous Lord: Regional Patrol keeps excellent archives.]

[Rowan Ashford: Again, this is not a Regional Patrol archive.]

[Tobias Reed: It can be now.]

Even Cassian smiled at that.

Veyra was still beside him.

”You’re not going to add anything?”

”About what?”

”First place is yours.”

”The system already said it.”

Cassian scrolled the channel down a little.

”They’re settling what they said now.”

Veyra glanced at the messages still pouring upward.

”And your money and attributes?”

Cassian looked at the sixty Free Attribute he still had not spent.

Then at his 3,575,266 Aether.

He did not open a confirmation panel.

”No rush.”

This time Veyra actually laughed.

”They got you to leave money and attributes alone.”

”They must be loud.”

Cassian did not deny it.

First place had already been settled.

Now it was time to settle the things people had said before the result.

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