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Ep 113
Shadow Slave: A Perfect Copy of Anvil Waited in His Throne (Ch 2154-2173) Audiobook Episode 113
The real Anvil of Valor was asleep in his sarcophagus. I checked the vitals myself, the way Jest did, staring through the narrow window at a body whose soul was still supposed to be lost in the Second Nightmare. So when word came that Anvil had been found in the throne room of Bastion, I felt the same cold sweat Jest felt. If the man they found was not Anvil, then something had walked into the heart of humanity's greatest stronghold wearing his face.
I watched Jest test it. The copy used Anvil's Aspect, loathed flawed things the way Anvil did, remembered the small peculiarities only family would know. And it was warm, soft, almost kind, like the boy Anvil had been before the Spell taught him to bury his heart. Jest could not bring himself to kill it. Neither could I, in his place, with Warden's son maybe breathing inside that skin.
Then the true Anvil woke, tore free of his shattered pod as an Ascended, and when he heard a copy of himself existed, I saw what Jest saw. Terror. The first fear Anvil had ever shown.
The two of them fought, and the compound nearly died for it. The real Anvil stood, broken and bleeding, and whispered that it was over. But it was not. Gwyn was gone. And Asterion, the thing wearing human skin, was still out there, smiling, offering Anvil a deal to help him kill Broken Sword. That deal is still waiting to be struck.
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