"If you value your life, you should retreat now." Christian’s voice echoed through the shattered relic chamber with a terrifying calmness that felt far more dangerous than rage as silver-crimson energy continued surging violently around himThe completed amulet beneath his coat pulsing in direct resonance with the Veil Dominion Relic floating above the fractured sanctum platform while the bodies of fallen Veilborn elites lay scattered across the ruined floor.The remaining Veilborn forces froze instinctively.Not because of the words themselves, but because of the man standing before them.Moments earlier, Christian had still looked human.Now, something about him had changed.Not corrupted or monstrous, but worse and focused.The Veilborn leader slowly straightened from the edge of the fight, his silver-black mask partially cracked from their earlier clash while dark bloodline energy continued spiraling around his hands.Even he... Even someone clearly accustomed to violence and anc

"What's with that expression of yours?" Christian asked quietly through the lower sanctum tunnel as he walked beside Georgia beneath endless layers of blackened steel corridors and fractured ritual walls.The glowing map extracted from the relic still hovering faintly before them while the deeper pathways toward the hidden laboratory stretched endlessly beneath the Dark Mountains like veins leading toward the heart of something rotten.Georgia shook her head calmly though unease filled expression is still there on her face, "nothing!""You’re hiding something from me again."Christian raised an eyebrow as his suspicion towards her didn't gone yet.Georgia’s steps slowed almost imperceptibly, not enough for someone ordinary to notice, but Christian noticed.He always did, especially now.... Especially after everything that had happened inside the sanctum.Ezra floated several feet ahead of them in silence, unusually restrained for once as his spectral gaze continuously scanned the surr