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Mated to the Enemy Alpha King
  1. 1. The Gilded Leash
  2. 2. The Obsidian Citadel
  3. 3. The Spark Across the Chasm
  4. 4. Awakening of the Blood-Thorn Bond
  5. 5. The Forbidden Denial
  6. 6. The Stifled Mark 🔒
  7. 7. The Blood on the Altar 🔒
  8. 8. The Shadow of the Assassin 🔒
  9. 9. The Broken Treaty 🔒
  10. 10. The Midnight Escape 🔒
  11. 11. The Serpent's Flue 🔒
  12. 12. The Red-Oak Sanctuary 🔒
  13. 13. Whispers in the Starlight 🔒
  14. 14. The Shadow of Ironspire 🔒
  15. 15. The Ambush at Whispering Gorge 🔒
  16. 16. The Sealed Vault of the Ancients 🔒
  17. 17. The Ascent of Mount Dread 🔒
  18. 18. The Vault of the Twin Moons 🔒
  19. 19. The Unedited Truth 🔒
  20. 20. The Syndicate's Strike 🔒
  21. 21. The Collapse of Mount Dread 🔒
  22. 22. The Sovereign Covenant 🔒
  23. 23. The March on Oakhaven 🔒
  24. 24. The Liberation of the Granary 🔒
  25. 25. The Chieftains' Convocation 🔒
  26. 26. The Shadow of the Syndicate 🔒
  27. 27. The Bilateral Vanguard 🔒
  28. 28. The Infiltration of Highstone 🔒
  29. 29. Beneath the Aqueduct 🔒
  30. 30. The Poisoned Reservoir 🔒
  31. 31. Severing the Tripwires 🔒
  32. 32. The Dawn of Rebirth 🔒
  33. 33. The Council in Chains 🔒
  34. 34. The Revelation of the Platinum Folios 🔒
  35. 35. The Shadow of Mount Dread 🔒
  36. 36. Forging the Northern Shield 🔒
  37. 37. The Oath of Highstone 🔒
  38. 38. The Frozen Defiles 🔒
  39. 39. The Cataract of Black Falls 🔒
  40. 40. The Shadow Flue 🔒
  41. 41. Sabotage in the Depths 🔒
  42. 42. The Fire of Mount Dread 🔒
  43. 43. The Traitor’s Blade 🔒
  44. 44. The Fall of the Grand Master 🔒
  45. 45. The Liberation of the Razor Peaks 🔒
  46. 46. A Covenant of Blood and Stars 🔒
  47. 47. The Triumphant Return 🔒
  48. 48. The Judgment of the Forty Clans 🔒
  49. 49. The Crown of the White Moon 🔒
  50. 50. The Dawning of the United Realm 🔒
  51. 51. The Shadow of the Eastern Ocean 🔒
  52. 52. The Port of Silver-Water 🔒
  53. 53. The Serpent in the Fog 🔒
  54. 54. The Captured Corsair 🔒
  55. 55. The Navies of Moon and Shadow 🔒
  56. 56. The Crossing of the Shallows 🔒
  57. 57. The Island of Sunken Stone 🔒
  58. 58. The Arch-Inquisitor's Crypt 🔒
  59. 59. The Original Blight 🔒
  60. 60. The Antidote of the Twin Moons 🔒
  61. 61. The Duel at the Sea Gate 🔒
  62. 62. The Shattered Fleet 🔒
  63. 63. Return to the Capital with the Truth 🔒
  64. 64. The Continental Mobilization 🔒
  65. 65. Whispers in the Royal Court 🔒
  66. 66. The Trial of the Old Guard 🔒
  67. 67. Night of the White Moon 🔒
  68. 68. The Emissaries from the Sunken Throne 🔒
  69. 69. The Banquet of Deception 🔒
  70. 70. The Severed Accord 🔒
  71. 71. The Eastern Defense Wall 🔒
  72. 72. Blood on the Sand 🔒
  73. 73. The Falcon's Warning 🔒
  74. 74. Council of War at Highstone 🔒
  75. 75. Forging the Continental Armada 🔒
  76. 76. The Blessing of the Tides 🔒
  77. 77. The Midnight March to the Coast 🔒
  78. 78. The Calm Before the Tempest 🔒
  79. 79. The Sails of the Sunken Empire 🔒
  80. 80. The Battle of the White Straits 🔒
  81. 81. Boarding the Leviathan 🔒
  82. 82. The Triumph of the Twin Moons 🔒
  83. 83. Shadows in the Heartland 🔒
  84. 84. The Desperate Strike 🔒
  85. 85. The Shield of Highstone 🔒
  86. 86. The Muster of the Iron Vanguard 🔒
  87. 87. The March Across the Valleys 🔒
  88. 88. The Fortress of Dragon-Tooth 🔒
  89. 89. The Night of the White Wolves 🔒
  90. 90. The Road to Ironspire 🔒
  91. 91. The Black Causeway 🔒
  92. 92. The Sortie of the Iron Chariots 🔒
  93. 93. The High Council Assembles 🔒
  94. 94. Defiance on the Ramparts 🔒
  95. 95. Mutiny in the Lower Ranks 🔒
  96. 96. The Advance to the Outer Courtyards 🔒
  97. 97. The Subterranean Vaults 🔒
  98. 98. The Syndicate's Hoard 🔒
  99. 99. The Ascent of the Black Spire 🔒
  100. 100. The Desperate Transformation 🔒
  101. 101. Clash of Titans 🔒
  102. 102. Silver Lightning, Golden Flame 🔒
  103. 103. The Breaking of the Beast 🔒
  104. 104. The Council of Judgment 🔒
  105. 105. The Shadow's Reckoning 🔒
  106. 106. The Gift of the North 🔒
  107. 107. The Decommissioning of the Border 🔒
  108. 108. The Continental Security Pact 🔒
  109. 109. Return to the Obsidian Citadel 🔒
  110. 110. The Eve of the Solstice 🔒
  111. 111. The Solstice Dawn 🔒
  112. 112. The Grand Sovereign Procession 🔒
  113. 113. The Temple of the Twin Moons 🔒
  114. 114. The Sovereign Vows 🔒
  115. 115. The Crown of the United Empire 🔒
  116. 116. The Solstice Banquet 🔒
  117. 117. Night of the Twin Dawns 🔒
  118. 118. The First Imperial Decrees 🔒
  119. 119. Foundations of the Bilateral Academy 🔒
  120. 120. The Granaries of Abundance 🔒
  121. 121. Voyage to the Eastern Straits 🔒
  122. 122. The Treaty of Port Vane 🔒
  123. 123. Spring in the Blackwood Basin 🔒
  124. 124. The Whispering Hearth 🔒
  125. 125. The Return to Highstone 🔒
  126. 126. A Secret in the Moonlight 🔒
  127. 127. The Royal Blessing 🔒
  128. 128. Echoes of the Ancient Packs 🔒
  129. 129. The First Imperial Assembly 🔒
  130. 130. Autumn of the Golden Harvest 🔒
  131. 131. The Solstice Approaches 🔒
  132. 132. The Twin Heirs of the Dawn 🔒
  133. 133. The Naming of the Princes 🔒
  134. 134. The United Continental Empire 🔒
  135. 135. Mated Beneath the Eternal Moons 🔒

Chapter 17

The Ascent of Mount Dread

Mated to the Enemy Alpha King · Seraphina Black · 6 min read

The ascent of Mount Dread took two grueling days through howling volcanic blizzards, razor-sharp ridges of black obsidian shale, and treacherous fields of boiling sulfur geysers that erupted without warning from the frozen earth. Mount Dread was an ominous, solitary volcano that rose eight thousand feet into the bruised northern sky, positioned at the exact geographic intersection where the northern borders of Moon-Crest, the western crags of Ironspire, and the…

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