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Discordant Note | The Beginning After the End SI

Lady Dawn expected to die.
After casting her soul to the wind, taking a one-in-a-million chance to escape the wretched dungeons of Taegrin Caelum, the once-caged songbird of the Asclepius wishes nothing more than to find her Hearth and warn them of the coming danger. Instead, she’s found herself a shade, anchored to a young man who knows far too much—and with far less hope than she’d started with.
Toren Daen, for his part, only wanted to make it home safely. Now he’s in a world taken straight from the page, questioning what is real and what is fiction, and scrambling to make something worthwhile. And with his foresight, there’s only one way that Toren can see to keep this new world safe: prevent the descent of the Legacy. But those in power will not make it easy: Nico Sever is in a league of power all on his own, and Arthur Leywin bears the burden of Fate a continent away. In this familiar-yet-not world of mana, monsters, and looming deities, any misstep along the roads of Alacrya and the High Sovereign’s Dominion could lead to a Fate worse than death.
But what is death to a phoenix? With a burning secret in his mana core, knowledge of the future, and a maelstrom of fears and questions, Toren might just survive to be more than what Lady Dawn expected him to be. He might just survive to waylay the encroaching tide of death in the proxy war between raging asura clans.
More than all of that, he might just live.
- Chapter 1: Awakening
- Chapter 101: The Lost [End of Book 2]
- Chapter 104: Plague Doctor
- Chapter 107: To Silver
- Chapter 11: Object-Oriented Spellcasting
- Chapter 112: The Relic
- Chapter 115: Nirmala
- Chapter 118: Concert Preparations
- Chapter 120: What Makes One Dangerous
- Chapter 123: The Mist
- Chapter 126: Along the Redwater
- Chapter 129: To Change the Source
- Chapter 131: Hidden Horns
- Chapter 134: Masquerade
- Chapter 137: Under the Moonlit Stars
- Chapter 14: Progress
- Chapter 142: To Stop a Plague
- Chapter 145: To Keep an Oath
- Chapter 148: Horizon's Edge
- Chapter 150: Beneath the Masks
- Chapter 153: A Speech
- Chapter 156: The Deepest Doctrine
- Chapter 159: Mourning
- Chapter 161: Pulse by Pulse [Start of Book 4]
- Chapter 164: Training for War
- Chapter 167: Mountaintops
- Chapter 17: Speculation
- Chapter 172: War Plans
- Chapter 175: An Arm Toward the Future
- Chapter 178: Rising Animosity
- Chapter 180: Echolocation
- Chapter 183: A Dance of Death
- Chapter 186: Severing Ties
- Chapter 189: Corrupted Beasts
- Chapter 191: A Known Prisoner
- Chapter 194: Fermenting Uprising
- Chapter 197: The City of Magma
- Chapter 2: A Hike in Another World
- Chapter 201: Seer
- Chapter 204: To Cleanse for the Future
- Chapter 207: Threading Hearts
- Chapter 21: Acideam
- Chapter 212: Lives
- Chapter 215: Exchange of Words
- Chapter 218: Genesis
- Chapter 220: Lesser Tendencies
- Chapter 223: The Undercrofts
- Chapter 226: Roses
- Chapter 229: For the Scythe
- Chapter 231: Puppeteer
- Chapter 234: Hunter
- Chapter 237: Warp
- Chapter 24: A Letter
- Chapter 242: Broken Future
- Chapter 245: Branching Paths
- Chapter 248: The Once and Future
- Chapter 250: Puzzles in Powers
- Chapter 253: The Justice of Beasts
- Chapter 256: Siphon
- Chapter 259: Prodigal
- Chapter 261: Shadows of the Soul
- Chapter 264: The Dragon Within
- Chapter 266: Temptation
- Chapter 269: Icarus
- Chapter 271: Lightening the Shade
- Chapter 274: Blindfire
- Chapter 277: Lavatide
- Chapter 28: Librarians
- Chapter 282: Those Secrets Kept
- Chapter 285: A Lantern in the Deep
- Chapter 288: Those Who Hold the World at Ransom
- Chapter 290: Anchor
- Chapter 293: The Scythehapter 27:s Mistake
- Chapter 296: Family Reunion
- Chapter 30: The Art of Thievery
- Chapter 302 300: Crescendo
- Chapter 305 303: Dust to Dust
- Chapter 308 306: Death to the King
- Chapter 310 308: Sunrise
- Chapter 33: Reasons
- Chapter 36: Incentive
- Chapter 39: Misdirection
- Chapter 41: Captured
- Chapter 44: Acquire
- Chapter 47: Beyond
- Chapter 5: Fiachra
- Chapter 52: Auld Acquaintance
- Chapter 55: First Ascent
- Chapter 58: Completion
- Chapter 60: A Teal Cloak
- Chapter 63: Bestowment
- Chapter 66: The Fruit of Labor
- Chapter 69: Offer
- Chapter 71: The Vicar of Plague
- Chapter 74: The Truth of Reincarnation
- Chapter 77: Convenience
- Chapter 8: Brother
- Chapter 82: Gathering of Refugees
- Chapter 85: To Track
- Chapter 88: Mending Wounds
- Chapter 90: Ark
- Chapter 93: To Leave a Lover
- Chapter 96: Smoke on the Water
- Chapter 99: Heartfire
- Chapter 10: Training
- Chapter 102: Bloodstone [Start of Book 3]
- Chapter 105: Song of Sorrow
- Chapter 108: Experimentation
- Chapter 110: To Keep a Promise
- Chapter 113: Like Clockwork
- Chapter 116: Retainer
- Chapter 119: The Song of the Storm
- Chapter 121: The Next Step
- Chapter 124: Veins
- Chapter 127: Scars
- Chapter 13: Exile
- Chapter 132: A Ball
- Chapter 135: Of Horns and Strength
- Chapter 138: The Truth of Blithe
- Chapter 140: Two Against Five
- Chapter 143: Event Horizon
- Chapter 146: Soulplume
- Chapter 149: To the Effigies of the Gods
- Chapter 151: In the Wake of the Plague
- Chapter 154: A Mother's Burden
- Chapter 157: To Prove One's Soul
- Chapter 16: Scouting
- Chapter 162: Alkali
- Chapter 165: Bladework
- Chapter 168: At the Pinnacle
- Chapter 170: Already Won
- Chapter 173: A Piece of the Puzzle
- Chapter 176: Locking Eyes
- Chapter 179: Gallow Spiders and Shallow Graves
- Chapter 181: Changing Views
- Chapter 184: To Fulfill His Wishes
- Chapter 187: A Third Eye
- Chapter 19: The Depths of the Forest
- Chapter 192: A Vision of Him
- Chapter 195: Crafting Hope
- Chapter 198: Taking from Them
- Chapter 20: The Hive
- Chapter 202: Before the Dungeons
- Chapter 205: A Clash of Wills
- Chapter 208: Of Lost Souls and Anchor Points
- Chapter 210: To Catch a Traitor
- Chapter 213: For the Cause
- Chapter 216: Exchange of Prisoners
- Chapter 219: Redirection
- Chapter 221: The Depths of the Soul [End of Book 4]
- Chapter 224: The Dragon and the Earth
- Chapter 227: Back Home
- Chapter 23: Trek
- Chapter 232: Changing Tactics
- Chapter 235: The Scythe of the Dead
- Chapter 238: The Result of War
- Chapter 240: Torn Intent
- Chapter 243: A Princess' Duty
- Chapter 246: Intentions Uttered
- Chapter 249: Catharsis
- Chapter 251: Between the Colors
- Chapter 254: Long May He Reign
- Chapter 257: The First Strike
- Chapter 26: Offer
- Chapter 262: Two Fronts
- Chapter 265: The First Hearing
- Chapter 267: Gaze Not at the Past
- Chapter 27: Base of Operations
- Chapter 272: Negotiations in Fire
- Chapter 275: The Sons of Eve
- Chapter 278: Revelations
- Chapter 280: What the Pages Whisper
- Chapter 283: The Core of Selfishness
- Chapter 286: A Weapon's Purpose
- Chapter 289: On What the Future Holds
- Chapter 291: Wretched
- Chapter 294: The Pain of Love
- Chapter 297: Through the Looking Glass
- Chapter 300 298: Gladius et Corona
- Chapter 303 301: The Serpent in the Garden
- Chapter 306 304: Dying Spasms
- Chapter 309 307: Heavy is the Head
- Chapter 311 309: Dawnfall
- Chapter 34: Investigations
- Chapter 37: Confrontation
- Chapter 4: Pest Control
- Chapter 42: Will
- Chapter 45: Success
- Chapter 48: To Move Forward [End of Book 1]
- Chapter 50: Checking Up
- Chapter 53: Fiachran Ascender's Association
- Chapter 56: The Night
- Chapter 59: Anomaly
- Chapter 61: Backers
- Chapter 64: Insight of Millennia
- Chapter 67: Waters of Hell
- Chapter 7: Contract
- Chapter 72: Beaten
- Chapter 75: City of Fear
- Chapter 78: Chance Meetings
- Chapter 80: The Survivors
- Chapter 83: The Horde Rises
- Chapter 86: The Limping Return
- Chapter 89: To the Lake
- Chapter 91: To Break the Water
- Chapter 94: The Sea of the Soul
- Chapter 97: Battle for the Tower
- Prologue: A Gamble
- Chapter 100: Descent
- Chapter 103: In the Temple
- Chapter 106: For All
- Chapter 109: Of Another Land
- Chapter 111: The Last Djinn
- Chapter 114: Sovereign's Quarrel
- Chapter 117: Leads
- Chapter 12: Budget Bushcraft
- Chapter 122: Pieces
- Chapter 125: Aensgar on the Redwater
- Chapter 128: Putrid
- Chapter 130: The Matron of the Denoirs
- Chapter 133: Wasting
- Chapter 136: To Dance
- Chapter 139: A Message
- Chapter 141: Under Siege
- Chapter 144: Beneath the Clash of Titans
- Chapter 147: What Flows Through One's Blood
- Chapter 15: Preparations
- Chapter 152: A Symbol
- Chapter 155: To Heal a City
- Chapter 158: The Result of Defiance
- Chapter 160: Participants [End of Book 3]
- Chapter 163: Channels
- Chapter 166: Mapping
- Chapter 169: At the High Sovereign's Call
- Chapter 171: A Coincidental Gift
- Chapter 174: To Heal Wounds
- Chapter 177: In the Depths of Darv
- Chapter 18: Steps
- Chapter 182: Puzzles in People
- Chapter 185: Lance Artifacts
- Chapter 188: Shifting Scales and Twin Skulls
- Chapter 190: Cleansing
- Chapter 193: The Heart Versus the Mind
- Chapter 196: Cementing Resolve
- Chapter 199: Death of Brotherhood
- Chapter 200: Adieu to Innocence
- Chapter 203: Sabotage
- Chapter 206: Transcendence
- Chapter 209: Caged
- Chapter 211: Greyscale
- Chapter 214: Unmasked
- Chapter 217: To the Apex
- Chapter 22: Escape
- Chapter 222: To Spread the Flame [Start of Book 5]
- Chapter 225: The Ascender and the Sorceress
- Chapter 228: Testing
- Chapter 230: The Benefits of Swill
- Chapter 233: Within the Sea
- Chapter 236: One Broken Boy
- Chapter 239: What We Can
- Chapter 241: Lacking Knowledge
- Chapter 244: A Soldier's Duty
- Chapter 247: Manaborne
- Chapter 25: Invitation
- Chapter 252: A Promise
- Chapter 255: Willbearer
- Chapter 258: Second Chances
- Chapter 260: A Note in the Symphony
- Chapter 263: To Those Who Pray
- Chapter 265.5: Christmas Special 2024
- Chapter 268: Bloodtie
- Chapter 270: Branded
- Chapter 273: Shatterpoint
- Chapter 276: Lavatide
- Chapter 279: The Demands of Dominions
- Chapter 281: Symphony for What May Be
- Chapter 284: Infiltration
- Chapter 287: Morningstar
- Chapter 29: Another Receptionist
- Chapter 292: Reflection
- Chapter 295: A Story Told
- Chapter 3: The Magics of Two Lands
- Chapter 301 299: Lost Chances
- Chapter 304 302: Ashes to Ashes
- Chapter 307 305: Thundercrack
- Chapter 31: The First Heist
- Chapter 32: Blood Money
- Chapter 35: Community
- Chapter 38: Mission Start
- Chapter 40: To Avenge
- Chapter 43: Rescue
- Chapter 46: Aftermath
- Chapter 49: Package [Start of Book 2]
- Chapter 51: Tales and Tails
- Chapter 54: The Relictombs
- Chapter 57: Sifting Sands
- Chapter 6: Healer's Guild
- Chapter 62: Intent
- Chapter 65: The Wrath of the Forest
- Chapter 68: Platforms
- Chapter 70: Oppression
- Chapter 73: Twinsoul
- Chapter 76: The Lay of the Land
- Chapter 79: Planning to Cooperate
- Chapter 81: Bandaging Wounds
- Chapter 84: The Price of Unfettered Power
- Chapter 87: To Escape
- Chapter 9: Letter of Consolation
- Chapter 92: Day of the Dead
- Chapter 95: From the Chrysalis
- Chapter 98: Stake of the Morning