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The Inheritance XVII
by Arise
Language: English
Content Rating: All Ages
A dying botanist gives Richard Crawford his first real lead — the Divine Fruit tree grows "where Heavenly Fire descends," and a vanished student named Phoebe Willow, almost certainly a witch's descendant, spent years hunting it before she disappeared.
The search draws in the Zandts, the Greendrake Church, and Saint Darkwind, and forces Richard into the tomb of a headless general, where a rival's carelessness with a floating lantern wakes something that scatters the expedition and drops Richard into a lightless ocean beneath a mountain.
What he finds down there is Finnley, the master who reconstructed his mortal body years ago without ever telling him, and an angelic inheritance that comes with a warning: without an Immortal Body, claiming it kills you.
In the North Desert, closing on Phoebe at last, the master of the Nirvadevil Sect steps out of a formation Richard cannot break and reveals himself as Daryl — and then as the thing that has been wearing Daryl for years, the Supreme Devilish Lord, who wants Richard's Herculean Primordial Spirit destroyed because it is the one force that can stand against him.
The Sun League turns out never to have been the villain, twelve pillars of light buy Richard the seconds he needs, and three years later he walks into his own wedding to Mila having handed back every inheritance he bled for — the saga ends not on a throne but on an ordinary street in Mayberry.