All Chapters of Sovereign of The Abyss: Chapter 271
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Chapter 271
Akiya stumbled again, catching herself against what looked like a wall made of frozen lightning. She was at her limit, blood still trickling from wounds that refused to close. But her eyes burned with something the constructs hadn't expected—calculation."How much further?" Miko asked, testing Elena's responses."Not far now," the construct replied. "The convergence point exists between heartbeats. We're almost there.""Good," Akiya said suddenly, straightening despite her exhaustion. "Because I'm done pretending to be weaker than I am."The constructs stopped as one, turning to look at her."Akiya?" Miko's voice held warning and hope in equal measure."Sorry, Miko." She smiled, and flames began to dance around her fingers. "But I finally figured it out. Took me long enough, but watching them move, listening to them talk... they're not people. They're not even really alive.""How astute," Renn said dryly. "We told you as much.""No, you told us you were constructs. But I don't think y
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"She's dying," he said."No," Elena corrected. "She's changing. The power she used—it wasn't meant for mortal frames. Her body is adapting or failing. Could go either way.""That's comforting.""I wasn't trying to comfort you."They moved through a corridor that looked like it was made of broken mirrors. Each reflection showed a different moment—Akiya burning the constructs, Samson's final light, the Master breaking Miko's spine. Happy memories too. Training together. Laughing over bad food. The time Blaze had tried to juggle fireballs and set his own hair ablaze."Stop," Miko said suddenly."We can't stop. The convergence—""No. Stop walking. Look."Elena paused, following his gaze. In one of the mirror shards, something was wrong. Or maybe right. It showed Akiya standing strong, flames dancing around her like old friends. But it wasn't a memory. The Akiya in the reflection was looking directly at them."That's impossible," Elena said."You keep using that word." Miko reached toward
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Akiya moved first. Elena barely had time to register the shift in her stance before flames erupted between them. Not wild fire. Controlled. Deliberate. The kind of heat that didn't just burn—it unmade. "Wait—" Elena's hand came up, but the word died in her throat. Miko watched from where he leaned against the wall, his legs useless beneath him. He should have said something. Stopped her. But he didn't. Akiya's expression was blank. Not angry. Not sad. Just empty. Elena stumbled backward, her form flickering. The smooth construct perfection wavered, revealing something underneath. Cracks. Fine lines spiderwebbing across her skin like porcelain left in frost. "I thought you'd choose differently," Akiya said. Her voice carried no judgment. Just fact. "I did choose." Elena's words came out fragmented. "I chose you. I chose—" "You chose survival." Akiya stepped forward. "There's a difference." The flames intensified. Not touching Elena yet, but close enough that the heat distorted
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They made it to a cave. The cave smelled like wet stone and old earth. Water dripped somewhere in the dark, a steady rhythm that echoed off unseen walls. Akiya had found the place by accident—stumbling through a crack in the chamber's geometry that spat them out into normal reality. Or something close to it. She'd collapsed the moment they were through. Just dropped to her knees and stayed there, ribs heaving, vision swimming. Miko had pulled himself along the ground using his arms until he reached the cave's back wall. Then he'd hauled himself into a sitting position and gone still. That was an hour ago. Maybe two. Time felt slippery after the chamber. Akiya watched him from across the cave. His eyes were closed, hands resting palm-up on his thighs. Meditating. Or trying to. His breathing had settled into something deep and measured, but every few minutes his jaw would clench. A muscle would jump in his neck. Whatever he was doing in there, it wasn't peaceful. She should sleep
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Somewhere in the abyss, the air in the prison was thick and metallic, carrying the scent of rust, dried blood, and burned stone. The walls wept moisture, and the faint hum of the suppression field echoed like an endless heartbeat. Between the rows of iron bars, faint light flickered from torches set too far down the hall to see clearly.No one spoke for a long time. The silence wasn’t peace — it was the stunned kind that comes after survival.Blaze was the first to break it.“So,” he said, voice rough, “that was fun.”Across the corridor, Garcia lifted her head. Her dark hair clung to her forehead, matted with blood and sweat. “Fun?” she repeated, disbelief flat in her tone.Blaze leaned against the wall and groaned. “Terrible word choice. I meant horrifying. But we’re alive.”Anna let out a hollow laugh. “Alive doesn’t mean safe. Or free.”Liam stirred in the far cell, his voice rasping. “Better alive than what they planned for us.”Anna turned sharply toward him. “You should be rest
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The world held its breath for exactly fourteen seconds.Then it exhaled.The tremor hit like a fist through stone. The floor bucked, throwing everyone against the bars. Dust rained from above in thick clouds. The torches went out all at once, plunging everything into complete darkness.And for three perfect seconds, the hum stopped."Now!" Garcia's voice cut through the chaos.Anna's hands were already glowing. She grabbed the bars separating her cell from Liam's and golden light flooded through the metal. On the other side, Liam gasped as healing magic rushed into him. Not enough to fix everything. Just enough to move.Blaze slammed his palms against his cell door. Fire erupted, white-hot and furious. The lock melted, metal dripping like wax. He kicked the door and it swung open with a screech.Garcia pressed her hands flat against her own bars. Her eyes closed. When they opened, the metal groaned, bending outward like clay. She squeezed through the gap, ripping her shirt on the jagg
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The prison entrance stood like a wound in the mountainside—black stone carved with symbols that made Miko's eyes water if he looked too long. Two guards flanked the door, constructs wearing human faces that didn't quite fit.Akiya crouched beside him behind the rocks, surveying the approach. "Just two?""That we can see." Miko tested his weight on his newly healed legs. They held, but barely. Anna's magic had done what it could, but full strength was still days away. "Could be more inside.""Definitely more inside." Akiya's hands sparked with small flames. "Question is how many.""Does it matter?"She looked at him. "Not really, no."They'd been tracking the prison for hours, following the residual energy signature from the battery chamber. It led here—to this forgotten outpost carved into the mountain's roots. Where the Master kept the things he didn't want found.Where he kept their friends."On three?" Akiya asked.Miko drew his blade. It felt strange in his hand after everything—l
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The hour passed too quickly. They started north as the sky continued its slow disintegration. Colors bled through the blue—purples and greens that didn't belong, twisting into patterns that hurt to watch. Stars flickered in and out of existence despite it being afternoon. "It's getting worse," Anna said quietly. She had Liam's arm over her shoulder, practically carrying him. "The convergence is accelerating." "He knows we escaped," Garcia said. She was on point, eyes constantly scanning. "He's pushing faster because he knows we're coming." Miko didn't argue. It made sense. The Master had been playing a long game, but they'd disrupted enough of his plans that he was rushing now. Desperate. That made him more dangerous, not less. The forest started changing about a mile in. The trees grew twisted, bark splitting to reveal something underneath that looked like muscle. Leaves turned colors that didn't exist in nature. The ground beneath their feet felt soft in places, like walking o
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The chamber was bigger than it looked from outside. Miko stepped through the entrance and felt the space open up around him—high ceilings that disappeared into darkness, walls that curved impossibly, floor that seemed both solid and transparent at once. Through it, he could see stars. Or what used to be stars. Now they were just points of light being consumed by spreading darkness. The seven keys floated in perfect formation, each one humming with a frequency that made his teeth ache. They were beautiful in a terrible way—crystalline structures that caught light that shouldn't exist and refracted it into colors that hurt to name. And in the center of them all, his father stood with arms raised. The Master didn't move. Didn't attack. Just watched as the five of them spread out, taking positions around the chamber's edge. "You brought friends," he said. His voice was calm. Almost pleasant. "How touching." Miko kept his blade ready but didn't advance. Not yet. "It's over. We're sto
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Energy lanced across the chamber. Miko threw himself sideways. The blast hit where he'd been standing, vaporizing stone. He rolled, came up running, blade ready. The Master didn't follow up. Just stood there, hand still raised, watching them scatter like pieces on a board. "Garcia, now!" Akiya's voice cut through the chaos. The floor erupted. Stone spikes shot up around the Master, creating a cage meant to limit his movement. But he just waved his hand and they crumbled to dust. "Going to take more than that," he said. Blaze and Akiya struck together. Twin streams of fire converged on the Master's position, aimed directly at his chest where Samson's scars burned. The heat was intense enough that Miko felt it from across the chamber. The Master raised a barrier. The flames split around it, scorching the walls behind him but leaving him untouched. "Predictable," he said. "You saw the weakness and went straight for it. No subtlety. No—" Garcia hit him from the side. She'd used