Reborn as the Henchman Who Protects the Villain novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Three Hundred Years
The Sword Terrace was a disc of white stone a hundred paces wide, at the mouth of the valley.
Duan Linxiao stood on it at noon without leaning on anything.
He felt the Lower Gate under his boots.
It was not a sound.
It was a second weight, a long way down, pressing up against the soles of his feet.
On the stones around him, the nine banners of the Accord hung in a windless row.
Zhu Hongdao walked the rim of the Terrace with his gentle face turned up to the cloud lid.
Behind him the geomancer moved with the bronze compass, and wrote small marks in a book.
The Young Sword stood by the steps with Dawnbreak on his back.
It was a hundred paces off, and Duan could feel it in his chest.
"Lord Duan," called the Peak Master. "A noble Terrace. It does honor to the Accord."
"It does not," said Duan. "Stay on the white stones. Anyone who steps off them forfeits the foot."
He said it in his old voice, flat and unhurried.
The disciples of nine sects went quiet at once.
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