All Chapters of Judge Of The Dead A Soul's Verdict: Chapter 51
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Chapter Forty-Eight :The Shattered Veil
The light cracked open the silence.It wasn’t just brightness it was force. It tore through the chamber in a sudden, breathtaking rush that made the air itself scream. Selene’s body was lifted and thrown backwards, her vision swallowed by white, her thoughts scattered like broken glass.When the light faded, there was only stillness.The floor beneath her was cold again. Dust settled slowly through the air, glowing faintly in the aftermath. The monolith that had stood in the centre was gone. Only a hollow scar remained where it had been, a perfect circle burned deep into the stone.Selene opened her eyes. Her pulse pounded against her ribs, uneven and wild.Across the chamber, Kaelen pushed himself to his feet, his cloak torn, his expression dark with disbelief. “What did you do?”She didn’t answer at first. Her breathing was shallow, her body trembling as if she’d been pulled apart and put back together wrong. The walls pulsed faintly with light, like veins beneath skin.“I didn’t st
Chapter Forty-Nine : The Path of Echoes
The silence followed them up the corridor.Each step echoed softly against the hollow stone, the rhythm slow and uncertain. The walls no longer glowed, but faint veins of light still flickered beneath the surface like veins beneath pale skin. The chamber behind them had sealed itself, swallowing the last trace of the crystal’s glow.Selene didn’t look back.Her body still felt strange. The pulse beneath her skin hadn’t faded, and every breath seemed to hum with something that wasn’t entirely her own. It was as though the light had entered her, settling deep enough to be felt but not yet understood.Kaelen walked a few steps behind her, his hand never far from his weapon. He didn’t speak, but she could feel the tension in him the way his presence pressed against the quiet, grounding her even when she wanted to drift away.The corridor began to slope upward.Bits of broken glass crunched beneath their boots. The air grew thinner and colder. Selene reached out once to steady herself agai
Chapter Fifty : The Weight of Light
The light didn’t fade.It pressed against her skin like a tide, blinding and endless, until the air itself stopped feeling like air. Her body felt weightless, suspended somewhere between falling and standing still.Then came the sound a low hum, steady and deep, like the world had a pulse again.Selene’s eyes opened slowly.At first, she couldn’t tell if she was awake or still inside the fracture. Everything around her shimmered with fragments of stone, dust, and even her own reflection bending in the air like water.She was lying on her back, the ground cold beneath her palms. The ceiling above her was gone. Only light remained, pale and soft, hanging like mist.Her breath came unevenly. “Kaelen…”No answer.She pushed herself up, her vision still unsteady. The temple was gone, or maybe it had never been real to begin with. The altar had turned to ash. What remained was a flat expanse of cracked stone stretching in every direction, surrounded by faint glows that moved like memories.
Chapter Fifty-One : After the Silence
The light fell away.It didn’t fade like a dying flame. It broke apart slowly, shattering into dust that drifted through the air and dissolved into the cracks beneath her feet.Selene stood in the middle of it all, her breathing soft but uneven, her hands trembling slightly as the glow left her skin. The air felt colder without it. The silence stretched so far that she could hear her own pulse in her ears.The world that had surrounded them — the broken pillars, the endless stone, the trembling horizon had stilled. What was once shifting light and memory now felt heavy and still, like the end of a storm that had stolen everything in its path.Kaelen lay a few feet away, motionless.Selene turned toward him. Her steps were slow, steady, almost reverent, as though even the ground beneath her was uncertain whether it was real again.When she reached him, she knelt beside his body and pressed her fingers to his throat.There was a pulse. Weak, but there.She exhaled a sound that wasn’t qu
Chapter Fifty-Two :The Step Forward
The light wasn’t cold this time.It wrapped around them in soft waves, warm like sunlight through water, gentle and endless. Selene’s fingers brushed against Kaelen’s arm as they stepped deeper in. The ground beneath them wasn’t stone anymore — it was shifting, like a memory trying to take shape.Each step made a faint sound, not an echo, but something softer.Breathing.The light around them began to pull apart, revealing fragments of colour. Blue first, then faint traces of gold, then the outline of a horizon.Kaelen blinked as the world slowly came back into focus.They were standing on what looked like a bridge of glass stretching over an ocean of clouds. The air shimmered, thin and weightless, carrying no scent, no warmth. Only silence.Selene took a few slow steps ahead, her eyes scanning the sky.“It’s not the Veil,” she said softly.Kaelen followed beside her. “Then what is it?”She looked down at the transparent bridge beneath her feet. “A reflection. Maybe the world is tryin
Chapter Fifty-Three : The City of Memory
The light around them pulsed like a slow breath.Selene stood beneath the towering column, her hand still hovering near the names carved into the floor. The surface was warm, and the energy it gave off felt alive not like magic, but like presence. Every whisper of air, every faint flicker in the glass towers above, seemed to respond to her touch.Kaelen watched her in silence. He didn’t say a word, but his eyes followed the way the light moved across her skin, how it lingered around her fingers like recognition.Then, softly, she spoke.“They’re waking up.”Kaelen turned. The city was no longer still.The faint, shapeless figures they’d seen before were starting to form clearer outlines people made of light and memory, walking slowly through the streets. Some looked lost. Others moved with quiet purpose, like they’d been here before.A young child ran across the glowing stone, his laughter echoing faintly before fading into a trail of gold dust. An older man stood beneath a nearby tow
Chapter Fifty-Four : When the Light Falters
The air in the courtyard had grown too still.Selene stood before the mirror, the light dimming around its edges. What once glowed softly like a pulse had slowed, uncertain, like something alive beginning to lose its rhythm.Kaelen’s reflection remained on the surface, but it was no longer clear. It flickered, breaking into fragments of shadow and light.Selene’s hand hovered just above it. “It’s changing again.”Kaelen stepped forward, his eyes narrowing. “Because of me?”“Because of both of us,” she said softly. “The city reacts to truth. And truth is rarely still.”He didn’t look away. “Then what does it see now?”Selene’s voice was quiet, but steady. “Doubt.”The word lingered. It wasn’t an accusation. It was something heavier.Kaelen turned from the mirror, his gaze moving across the courtyard. The faint outlines of the souls that had wandered the streets were starting to fade again. Their bodies of light flickered, uncertain, their memories unravelling into mist.“What’s happeni
Chapter Fifty-Five : The Fracture Beneath
The city had gone quiet again, but not in peace.It was the kind of silence that follows a wound still, heavy, waiting for the next heartbeat to decide whether to heal or bleed.Selene stood before the mirror, its light nearly gone. The once vibrant pulse that had filled the City of Memory now trembled faintly beneath the glass. The reflection that had shown her Kaelen’s truth was gone, but the echo of it still lingered in the air like smoke.Kaelen stayed a few paces behind her, his blade still sheathed, his eyes fixed on the cracks forming along the courtyard’s edge. The light running through the streets below flickered, then disappeared entirely, leaving only faint trails of heat that faded into darkness.“Selene,” he said quietly.She didn’t turn.“You feel it too, don’t you?”Selene nodded slowly. “The foundation’s shifting.”The ground beneath them gave a soft, rolling tremor. Not enough to throw them off balance, but enough to remind them that the city wasn’t stable anymore.Ka
Chapter Fifty-Six : The First Memory
The ground still hummed beneath their feet.Kaelen could feel the vibration through his boots, subtle but constant, like a pulse from something buried deep beneath them.Selene stood at the edge of the cracked mirror, her hand hovering just above the broken surface. Light seeped through the fissures pale, trembling light, the colour of something too old to belong to this world.Neither of them spoke for a while. The city was breathing again, but it was a shallow, uneasy breath. The towers swayed faintly in the distance, their reflections rippling across what was left of the mirror.Kaelen’s voice broke the silence first. “You called it the first memory.”Selene didn’t move. “Because that’s what it is. The beginning of all recollection. Before judgment. Before life was given form.”He stepped closer. “And it’s down there?”She nodded slowly. “It was never supposed to wake.”The light beneath the mirror brightened just enough for Kaelen to see movement. Not fast, not violent, but shifti
Chapter Fifty-Seven: The City Beneath Light
The light swallowed them whole.There was no sound, no wind, no sense of falling. Only the feeling of being pulled through something that was neither air nor space, a silence so complete it pressed against their chests.Kaelen tried to breathe, but there was nothing to draw in. His eyes were open, but the light was everywhere not bright, not blinding, just endless.Then, slowly, shapes began to form around them.The light thinned, becoming mist. The mist turned into air. And in the distance, outlines of towers appeared, faint at first, then solid.They were standing in a city.But not the one above.This one was quiet. Still. Its streets were made of smooth stone, reflecting pale gold light that came from nowhere. Buildings stretched upward, their walls carved with shifting patterns that moved like water.Selene turned slowly, her eyes wide. “This place…”Kaelen finished for her. “It’s beautiful.”She nodded, though her face was pale. “It shouldn’t exist anymore.”He looked around. “T