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Chapter 65: Black Banner Opens the Pool—Riftward at 8.0 Odds · 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

After Gareth Halvern entered the Shattered Marches Channel, his first message was for Cassian.

[Gareth Halvern: Is the Warden from the first Region here?]

Tobias still had not gotten up to leave Forgotten Shrine.

”He’s looking for you.”

Cassian replied.

[Cassian Vale: Here.]

[Gareth Halvern: Stoneward Keep used to be only my Domain’s name. Now that the Warden seat has settled, the Region is officially Stoneward.]

[Newcomer Region officially named: Stoneward]

Gareth did not ask about the Fountain.

He did not ask how Riftward had pushed past four million points either.

He only put his own result on the table.

[Gareth Halvern: We deliberately waited until one hundred war Lords were fully prepared before opening Regional Boundary Defense.]

[Gareth Halvern: We entered better prepared than you and still didn’t catch your score. I’ll work out where we fell short myself.]

Cassian looked at the message a little longer.

[Cassian Vale: Congratulations.]

[Gareth Halvern: Congratulate me after the Ranking settles. Right now I’m only second.]

Not warm.

Not conceding either.

The fact that both Regions were outside Black Banner did not mean Gareth considered Stoneward beneath Riftward.

---

Not long after, the third Region completed Regional Boundary Defense.

[Regional Warden: Mira Calder]

[Official Region Name: Northwatch]

Mira did not enter the channel talking about the Ranking.

She confirmed one thing first.

[Mira Calder: Riftward, Stoneward. If Black Banner reaches my side first, I’ll share route intelligence. Same arrangement in reverse.]

Gareth replied quickly.

[Gareth Halvern: Agreed.]

Cassian did the same.

[Cassian Vale: Agreed.]

Mira added one more line.

[Mira Calder: To be clear, exchanging intelligence does not mean Northwatch is joining anyone else’s Region structure.]

[Cassian Vale: No one asked you to.]

[Mira Calder: Good.]

Seraphine was still sitting on the other side of the stone table.

She tapped one finger against the rim of her cup.

”I like this one too.”

”Which part?” Tobias asked.

”Knowing when to cooperate.”

”And making the boundary clear before doing it.”

Tobias looked at her.

”Do all of you people who want to be Wardens enjoy talking about boundaries first?”

Seraphine answered, ”If you don’t settle them first, you pay for them with lives later.”

The fourth Region succeeded soon after.

This time the public system information included a rare label.

[Regional Warden: Darian Frost]

[Official Region Name: Ironwake]

[Lord Path: Warbound]

Elara raised a brow.

”Warbound.”

Rowan looked up as well.

Unlike Gareth’s route of organizing one hundred war Lords around recovery, reserves, and backup lines, Warbound concentrated more of that growth in the Lord himself.

Higher risk.

And a Lord who survived that route long enough to win a Warden seat could not be valued like an ordinary Lord.

Darian himself sent only one message.

[Darian Frost: I’ll compete for the Ranking. And if war reaches the Region border, I’ll stand on the first line myself.]

Cassian read it once.

He did not count Darian as an ally.

He did not count him as an enemy either.

He simply added Darian Frost to the list of Ranking rivals worth watching separately.

A Warbound Warden willing to stand on the front line himself was not someone to judge by ordinary Region-Leader standards.

---

By the time the fifth Region succeeded, the Shattered Marches Channel was noticeably busier.

When the sixth notice appeared, Elara sat up straight.

[Regional Warden: Varek Sorn]

[Official Region Name: Sable March]

Black Banner Cohort.

And this was the Region directly southeast of Riftward.

The map updated with the new name.

Riftward and Sable March shared a border.

No third Region stood between them.

The Warden Gate was not built yet.

Legal cross-Region transit was not connected yet either.

But both sides now had a Warden and an official Region name.

The Dwarven Royal Hall mountain route was no longer a gray future problem on a map.

Varek entered the channel.

[Varek Sorn: Riftward. 4.42 million on the first blind run. Not bad.]

Cassian did not reply with ”thank you.”

Varek clearly had not meant it as simple praise.

His next message gave the comparison directly.

[Varek Sorn: Sable March is currently at 4,086,920.]

[Varek Sorn: I just finished Wave 42. Defense Sector still Active.]

Riftward’s 4,423,540 was higher.

But Cassian had stopped at Wave 45.

His Sector was over.

His score would not move again.

Sable March was only a little more than three hundred thousand behind.

And Varek was still fighting.

That was the comparison the market would care about.

Stoneward’s public score had already climbed past 3.7 million, and Gareth was still Active.

Ironwake and Northwatch were lower, but they were still fighting too.

Riftward was currently first.

It was also the only Region near the top whose number had already stopped moving.

Varek sent one more message.

[Varek Sorn: The first Region tested War Drums, recovery windows, and the high-level waves for everyone behind it. Of course later Regions will go farther.]

Cassian had already reached the same conclusion himself.

That was why he had not stopped when he won the Warden seat.

He had pushed all the way to Wave 45.

Now someone was finally putting real money behind the question of whether 4.42 million would hold.

---

The public wager did not come from Varek.

It came from Nadia Serr, a name already present in Black Banner’s intelligence network.

[Nadia Serr has opened a public wager on the Shattered Marches Exchange.]

[Wager: Final Rank 1 in the Shattered Marches Newcomer Region Ranking]

[Seed Pool: Aether Crystal ×3,000,000]

The pool displayed only the easiest public facts to compare.

[Riftward: 4,423,540 | Wave 45 | Defense Ended]

[Sable March: 4,086,920 | Wave 42 | Active]

[Stoneward: 3,700,000+ | Active]

Then the odds.

[Sable March: 2.1]

[Stoneward: 4.6]

[Ironwake: 5.2]

[Riftward: 8.0]

Tobias stared at the last line.

”We’re first right now.”

”8.0?”

Rowan only looked at the three status lines.

”First right now.”

”But the score is finished.”

Seraphine added, ”Sable is only a little more than three hundred thousand behind, and it hasn’t even started Wave 43 yet.”

”Black Banner also went in knowing the rules.”

”Based only on what you’ve made public, 2.1 isn’t strange.”

Cassian agreed.

The market knew Riftward had gone first.

It knew they had exposed the rules for every Region that came later.

It knew Riftward’s Sector was already over.

What it did not know was what Fountain of Life had done to the Rocketiers’ Overload cycle.

It did not know Celia and Aurelia were both Level 20.

It did not know the A-grade Environment had added a Deep Domain Layer.

It definitely did not know Cassian still had ninety Free Attribute unassigned.

So Riftward at 8.0 was not some baseless insult.

It was a price built from incomplete public information.

That made it useful.

Veyra stood behind him.

”What did you find this time?”

”Someone put a price on first place.”

”Aren’t you first right now?”

The corner of Cassian’s mouth moved.

”That’s why it’s interesting.”

---

The pool had barely opened when the first stake appeared under Riftward.

[Riftward: +10,000 Aether Crystal]

Cassian’s brow moved.

Tobias had already lowered his interface as if nothing had happened.

Cassian turned.

”Tobias.”

”Yeah?”

”That was you?”

”Supporting the Warden.”

”Can you pull it back?”

”Not after confirmation.”

Tobias looked perfectly satisfied with himself.

”And it’s 8.0.”

”If we really finish first, I make seventy thousand.”

Cassian watched him for two seconds.

”Next time you support me.”

”Ask first.”

Tobias blinked.

”Why?”

Cassian looked back at the odds.

”You lowered them.”

The stone table went silent for one beat.

Elara laughed first.

Rowan pressed a hand to his forehead.

Seraphine looked at Cassian.

”How much are you planning to put in?”

Cassian did not answer.

His balance was still there.

[Aether Crystal: 298,466]

So was Black Banner’s three-million-Aether seed pool.

Riftward.

8.0.

Someone else had already named the price.

Now Cassian only had to decide how much of it he wanted.

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