Chapter 93: Battle Instincts
CH93 Battle Instincts
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Alex woke up the next morning to the ceiling of a strange, yet familiar bedroom.
It was the bedroom of the Ashen Castle’s back mountain lodge—the one the original ’Alex Fury’ had called home for most of his life. The space was deeply imprinted into his muscle memory.
He instinctively knew where everything was: the location of the cupboard and shelves, the window’s exact angle of sunlight at dawn, even the squeaky floorboard just past the doorframe. He could move around with his eyes closed.
And yet... it felt foreign.
To the current Alex Fury—the True_Sage—this wasn’t home. His familiar room was the one in the dorms back at the Enclave. That was the place he had grown into himself.
Nonetheless, thanks to the lingering familiarity carved into his body’s memories, Alex got a proper, restful night’s sleep.
Carefully, he eased off the bed, making sure not to disturb Fen, who lay curled beside him. Fen intended to watch over him after the whole assassination debacle but clearly the cub couldn’t resist the call of nine clouds.
Alex walked over to the full-body mirror near the bedside.
Five years ago, on the day he first reincarnated into this world, this very mirror had shown him the image of a scrawny child—the frail vessel he had awoken into. But today, it reflected someone new.