Chapter 131 - CHAPTER 131: GAMBLING ON GOLDEN SCALES

​The air within the Hall of the Jade Claw felt impossibly heavy, as if gravity itself were conspiring to crush anyone standing at the center of the chamber. The persistent murmurs of the Dragon Elders created an unsettling hum—a symphony of doubt and fear thinly veiled by racial arrogance. Upon his obsidian throne, Emperor Tharazion sat in a state of profound stillness. His eyes, the color of molten gold, stared vacantly at the continental map spread across the central table, as if he could physically see the black plumes of smoke reported by Razor billowing over the northern horizon.