**UPDATE**
I just want to thank you all for this journey so far. I am sad to say that I will be putting this work on an indefinite pause and I'm not sure if I'll ever return to this novel. I will release the chapters up until the end of this arc and I have decided to move onto other things.
I will take a few weeks off writing and I will return with a different story that I'm sure a lot of you will really like. Thanks for all of the support, I know all of the supporters that have been voting power stones and interacting so don't think that your support has gone unnoticed. Thanks for everything!
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Across the city, the territory was swiftly beginning to shrink. The resistance was still tough but the Stroline and Helian soldiers were finally able to literate areas of the territory.