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The Silverston Empire teeters on the edge of ruin. A foolish emperor and his reckless sons cling to power, while the nobility, consumed by greed and ambition, bleed the empire dry. The people live in crushing poverty, women are silenced by systemic oppression, and magic—once a source of wonder—has been branded as sin. The ancient dragons, symbols of balance and strength, are no more, leaving the land vulnerable and fractured.

All hope rests on the Alcons, a forgotten bastion of power. Its guardians? Six princesses, dismissed as spoiled and unfit for anything beyond luxury. But beneath the silks and jewels lie secrets and strengths even they do not fully understand. In a world spiraling into darkness, can these unlikely heroines rise to reclaim their empire and restore the balance?

Daughters, Swords &Dragons

IT WAS 14 DAYS OF TORTURING REGASUS.

Regasus didn't respond. The darkness had been eating him alive for days, no, weeks, or perhaps longer.

Time had melted into a blur of cold stone and bitter silence. Shadows pressed down on him, suffocating, wrapping around his throat like a coiled serpent.

His limbs ached from the chains that tethered him to the walls of the cell, and his mind spiraled through the memories of a life he had once believed unbreakable.

Yet here he was, reduced to this, a prisoner of despair, a broken man clutching the fragile remnants of hope that refused to let him die.

He was nothing more than a mere shadow of himself now.

Ara was amused at such restraint, the man simply didn't break. It was remarkable such stamina in torture. What is the saying:

Desperate times call for desperate measures?

ARA: CHAPTER 48