All Chapters of The Healer’s Ascension: Chapter 131
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Chapter 126: Illusions of Ash
Jason opened his eyes to sunlight. Not fire. Not chains. Not smoke. Just sunlight, golden and warm, spilling gently across a wooden floor.He blinked against it, his chest tightening, a slow breath leaving him without the taste of ash. For the first time in what felt like centuries, he wasn’t choking. He wasn’t burning. He was… alive.And then he realized where he was. His room. The one he had grown up in. The narrow window with the broken latch. The stack of worn books on the desk.The crooked frame on the wall holding the picture of his mother, smiling with her arms around him. Jason sat up, heart hammering in disbelief. His body was whole. No scars. No burns. No fire. Just skin.The air smelled of bread baking in the oven. Somewhere downstairs, he heard laughter. Familiar laughter. His throat closed. It couldn’t be. “Jason?”The voice froze him. He turned slowly, and there she was. His mother. Standing in the doorway, her eyes bright, her smile gentle, her hands open as though noth
Chapter 127: Mirror of Fire
Jason lunged forward, fists clenched, silver sparks bursting across his knuckles. The figure before him caught the blow effortlessly. His own hand. His own fire.Jason staggered back as the echo grinned, wearing his face, his eyes molten gold.“You can’t fight me,” the ancient whispered through his mouth. “I am what you’ve always been. Rage. Fire. Destruction. You’ll burn everyone you touch.”Jason roared, hurling himself forward, fists striking like thunder. But every blow met its mirror, every strike rebounded with equal fury. He hit himself, and he bled.His knuckles split. His ribs cracked. His ember flared and guttered. And through it all, the echo smiled. Aria’s world cracked apart like glass.She staggered into a hall of mirrors, silver light flickering weakly around her. Every reflection was Jason. But not the Jason she knew.These reflections sneered. Their eyes were hollow, their smiles cruel. One stepped forward, dragging a chain behind him, its links dripping molten gold.
Chapter 128: The Fractured Tether
Jason froze. Across the broken battlefield, through shards of collapsing fire and twisted illusions, Aria stood with her blade raised.Silver flame bled from her body, her chest heaving, her eyes wide and burning. Her hand trembled on the hilt, but the point of her sword never wavered.And it was aimed straight at him. Jason’s chest tightened. The wound from before still burned, every breath dragging razors through his ribs. His ember guttered weakly in his chest, a fading star.But this this was worse. Because he couldn’t tell if it was really her.The tether pulsed erratically, surging one moment, dead the next, like a heartbeat skipping out of rhythm. It wasn’t clear, wasn’t certain, wasn’t the anchor it had always been.“Aria…” His voice cracked as he stepped forward. “Is it you?”Her lips parted. Her voice carried across the fractured ground, sharp, broken, and afraid.“Jason… tell me it’s you.”The silence between them roared louder than the collapsing world. The ancient’s laugh
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Nine: The Fall
Jason’s blade trembled against her chest. Aria’s blade trembled against his. Between them, the tether screamed, a white-hot thread of silver and sapphire, vibrating like it was about to snap.Every beat of their hearts surged through it, clashing and tearing, threatening to rip them both apart. Jason’s lungs burned with every breath.His vision blurred with blood and fire. He could barely stand, his knees buckling under the weight of his ember. But none of it mattered. Only her. Aria.Her face streaked with tears, her hands shaking as she held the blade at his heart. Her eyes wide, terrified, locked on him as though she didn’t know if he was real.Jason’s throat closed. His grip faltered. “Aria…” His voice broke, raw as ash. “It’s me.”Her lip trembled. “Prove it.”The ancient’s laughter rolled through the fractured void, loud and merciless.“Pathetic. You don’t even trust each other anymore. What is love without certainty? What is a bond without truth? Nothing. Nothing but pain.”The
Chapter 130: The Throne of Chains
The fissure swallowed them whole. Jason’s grip on Aria’s hand was the only thing that kept him tethered as the world turned inside out.They were yanked through fire. Through shadow. Through a void so vast it felt like falling forever. Chains rattled around them, molten links stretching endlessly, clashing like thunder as they twisted into shapes too enormous to comprehend.Jason gasped against the heat. Every breath scorched his lungs, every heartbeat burned. The tether pulsed violently in his chest, straining, screaming.But Aria’s hand was still in his. That was all that mattered. They fell. And then they landed. The impact cracked through his bones. Jason groaned, pushing himself upright, his palms burning against the ground.Stone. Black stone, slick with heat. He lifted his head. And froze. They stood in a chamber so vast it defied reason, stretching upward into an endless void of fire.Chains thicker than towers descended from the darkness, plunging into the stone around them,
Chapter 131: The Throne War
The fissure swallowed them whole. Jason’s grip on Aria’s hand was the only thing that kept him tethered as the world turned inside out.They were yanked through fire. Through shadow. Through a void so vast it felt like falling forever. Chains rattled around them, molten links stretching endlessly, clashing like thunder as they twisted into shapes too enormous to comprehend.Jason gasped against the heat. Every breath scorched his lungs, every heartbeat burned. The tether pulsed violently in his chest, straining, screaming.But Aria’s hand was still in his. That was all that mattered. They fell. And then they landed. The impact cracked through his bones.Jason groaned, pushing himself upright, his palms burning against the ground. Stone. Black stone, slick with heat. He lifted his head. And froze.They stood in a chamber so vast it defied reason, stretching upward into an endless void of fire. Chains thicker than towers descended from the darkness, plunging into the stone around them,
Chapter 132: The Shatter
The tether exploded. Silver. Sapphire. Light so violent it swallowed the chamber whole, erasing chains, stone, fire, even sound.Jason’s scream tore through the blaze as his body convulsed, his ember cracking apart, shards of fire ripping through him. He felt Aria.Every heartbeat. Every pulse of agony. Every shred of her fire as it tore through her chest, colliding with his, fusing, breaking.They weren’t two anymore. They weren’t one, either. They were raw fire. Raw ember. And it was too much.Jason’s vision fractured into a thousand shards of silver. Aria’s voice split into echoes, her scream reverberating through his bones, through his soul.The chains binding them melted in the blaze. The ancient roared in fury, its molten form reeling back as the explosion consumed the chamber. But the fire didn’t stop.It surged. It consumed. Jason couldn’t feel his hands anymore. Couldn’t feel his body. He was fire. Every thought burned. Every breath seared.But through the inferno, he clung t
Chapter 133: The White
The fire ended. Or it didn’t. Jason didn’t know. There was no chamber. No throne. No chains. Only white. Endless, suffocating white.He couldn’t feel his body. Couldn’t tell if he was standing, floating, or falling. Couldn’t tell if he had hands, if he still had a chest, if his ember was still inside him or scattered into dust.But he could feel her. Aria. Faint. Flickering. But there. He reached for her, though his arms no longer existed. His thought stretched through the white, desperate, trembling. Aria…?A pulse answered. Small. Fragile. Jason. Relief ripped through him like lightning. His fire surged instinctively, though he no longer knew what fire meant in this place.You’re here. I’m here. The words trembled, as though the white itself tried to smother them. Jason pushed harder, his ember flaring, his soul straining. “Don’t fade. Don’t you dare fade.”Her answer came sharp, cracked. I won’t, if you don’t.Something moved. The white rippled. For a moment Jason thought it was hi
Chapter 134: The Breaker
The chains cracked. Not because Jason’s fire grew hotter. Not because Aria’s ember burned brighter. But because, for the first time, Jason didn’t doubt.Silver detonated from his chest, colliding with Aria’s sapphire blaze, surging outward in a torrent the chains couldn’t choke. The fire didn’t just resist. It devoured.The void shuddered as the ancient roared. “No. NO. You cannot”The chains shattered. One by one, then in waves, snapping like glass under their fused blaze. The infinite lattice of black iron dissolved into molten sparks, scattering into nothing.Jason and Aria hovered in the storm, their firestorm spiraling, their embers fused so tight he could no longer tell which heartbeat was his.Her voice pulsed through him, fierce, trembling, alive. You see it now. “Yes.” His voice came raw, doubled, his chest surging with fire. “We were never weak. Not once. Not when we chose each other.”Her ember surged against his. Then let’s finish this. The ancient staggered in the dark, i
Chapter 135: The Unbound
The universe burned. Jason’s eyes, no, their eyes, snapped open to fire bleeding across reality itself. The void was gone. The throne was gone. The illusions were gone.Now there was only sky. But not any sky Jason had ever seen. Galaxies swirled overhead, spirals of light smeared across a canvas of eternal black.Stars flared and died in the span of heartbeats. Suns ignited, collapsed, and were reborn in waves of fire. And at the center of it all, rising vast enough to eclipse galaxies, was the ancient. Unbound.Its form was no longer iron or chain or molten flesh. It was pure fire. A colossal silhouette of endless flame, its furnace eyes burning brighter than supernovae.Its voice thundered across the stars. “You thought you destroyed me. You thought you could bind me in chains. But chains were never my prison. YOU WERE.”Every word shook existence, tearing rifts across the cosmos. Jason’s chest burned, his ember cracked and raw. But Aria’s pulse flared through him, weaving tighter,