All Chapters of Heir by Dawn: Chapter 41
- Chapter 50
140 chapters
Chapter 41 : The Broken Fight
The chamber detonated into chaos. The armored heir lunged, molten claws tearing through stone like paper. Heat washed over them, blistering the air. Victor shoved Ethan behind him, throwing his body into the path of the blow.Steel met fire. Not steel his forearm, glowing faintly, catching the strike. The impact thundered.Victor’s eyes went wide. The heir snarled. “Your blood remembers.” Victor staggered, forcing the claws away. “Shut up!”Miriam was already moving, darting low across the ground. She scooped a jagged shard of collapsed pillar, gripping it like a blade, and slashed at the heir’s legs. The shard sizzled against molten flesh, cracking uselessly.The heir didn’t flinch. Julian sang from the sidelines, his voice rising above the carnage: “Curtain up, curtain up! Act two: the audience eats the actors!”“Julian!” Miriam snapped, fury burning. “Do something useful!”He tilted his head, smirking. “But I am. I’m watching.” The skeletal heir drifted closer, voice like silk. “R
Chapter 42: The World Splits
The explosion shook not just the abyss but the world above. In a skyscraper of black glass, thousands of miles away, the Consortium’s war room lit up red. Screens blinked with seismic waves and energy spikes.A woman in a gray suit barked at her analysts. “Coordinates. Now.” “Ma’am, it’s… it’s not on the map. It’s coming from… nowhere.” She slammed her fist against the desk. “There is no nowhere. Find me that surge!” In the Vatican’s deepest vault, monks woke to the sound of bells tolling themselves. An elder shuffled forward, his eyes blind but glowing faint gold.“The chains tremble,” he whispered. “The keys awaken. One has been touched.” His apprentice trembled. “Father, what do we do?”The elder smiled, teeth cracked. “We pray. And we prepare to kill the heir.” In a neon-lit slum, a cult painted in blood screamed in ecstasy. Their leader, face tattooed with spirals, raised his arms to the night sky.“He rises! He rises! The seal cracks and the flood comes! Blessed be the golden
Chapter 43 : Victor’s Choice
The chamber was fire and ash, cracks bleeding light into an abyss that never ended. Ethan hung in the air like a broken star, golden fire dripping from his skin, voice fractured into three layers.His words thundered. “Kill me… or lose the world.”Victor’s hands trembled. His chest heaved, lungs scorched by the heat. He tried to move, but his feet felt cemented to the floor.Miriam, still bleeding, staggered closer, her shard raised. “He’s right. Look at him, Victor. He’s not Ethan anymore.”Victor’s head whipped toward her, fury sparking. “Don’t you dare.”“Don’t dare what?!” Miriam snapped, spitting blood. “Pretend you don’t see it? He’s merging! Every second we hesitate, those things.” She jabbed toward the heirs clawing at the cracks. “ get closer to walking free!”The armored heir laughed, molten spittle hitting the ground. “Yes. Stall longer. Debate. While your world cracks beneath your feet.”The skeletal heir’s voice slid between them, intimate and cruel. “Kill him. You’ll be
Chapter 44 : Collapse
The abyss screamed like a dying world. Stone cracked. Runes split. Fire rained from nowhere. The seal buckled, and from beneath it came the roar of things that had been waiting too long.Victor didn’t think. He just grabbed Miriam by the arm, shoving her forward. “Move! Now!.”She stumbled, coughing blood, but pushed her legs to run. “What about Ethan?!”Victor’s throat burned, words tearing out. “He said run! So we run!”Julian’s laugh echoed even as chunks of ceiling thundered down. “Ah, the grand finale! The theatre collapses on its players! How fitting!”“Shut up and move!” Victor bellowed.The hybrid scrambled past them, clawing at the walls like a panicked animal. “It’s opening, it’s all opening, he can’t hold it, he won’t hold it.”Victor shoved him forward. “You’re guiding us out. If you slow down, I’ll throw you to them myself!.”The armored heir roared behind them, molten claws smashing through stone. “You cannot flee. All paths lead back to us.”Miriam hurled her shard behi
Chapter 45 : The Hand That Follows
Cold air hit Victor’s lungs like knives. For the first time in hours, there was no heat, no choking fire just the smell of pine and frost. They were back on the surface.Miriam collapsed to her knees, clutching her burned side. “We made it… We actually made it…”Julian sprawled on the dirt, laughing breathlessly. “Curtain call survived! The actors bow!”The hybrid didn’t laugh. He crawled forward, trembling, his eyes locked on the crack in the ground. “No. No, no, no we didn’t escape. Look.”Victor turned. His stomach dropped. From the fissure, a golden hand still clutched the edge, its fingers gouging into stone like clay. The ground hissed under its touch, smoking.Miriam whispered, horror in her voice. “It followed us…”The hand flexed, talons curling, and the crack widened with a shriek of stone. The abyss wasn’t done.Victor surged forward, grabbing the nearest fallen branch and slamming it down across the hand. The branch vaporized instantly, leaving nothing but ash.Julian whis
Chapter 46: The First Heir Rises
The ground convulsed like a living thing. The fissure tore wider, trees splintering as roots were ripped from the soil. The forest howled as wind roared downward, sucked into the abyss.Victor hauled Miriam to her feet, voice raw. “Stay with me don’t black out now.”She coughed blood, clutching her burned side. “I’m not done yet.” Julian spread his arms, smiling at the chaos. “Oh, how the world loves a grand entrance!”The hybrid crawled backward, eyes wide, body trembling. “No… no, no, no. That’s not a fragment. That’s them. A true heir is climbing out.”From the fissure, a massive shape surged upward. Golden light poured from cracks in its body, a titan of bone and molten steel. Its head broke through first, crowned with jagged horns.Its eyes opened two suns burning with hunger. The heir roared. The forest split. The sky itself dimmed.Miriam staggered back, whispering. “How do we fight that?”Victor clenched his fists, burns still smoking. “We don’t have a choice.”The heir’s hand
Chapter 47: Break the Hand
The heir’s molten fingers tightened around Julian, his body audibly cracking. His laugh cut into a strangled hiss. Victor hurled himself at the golden wall again, fists blazing, but it blasted him back like a leaf in a storm. “Let him go!”The heir’s voice shook the trees. “He is mine. A herald of shadows, fit only to be unmade.” Julian coughed blood, but his grin never wavered. “Unmade? Oh, darling no stage is complete without a critic.”Miriam staggered forward, her shard glowing dangerously bright. “Victor help me channel. We’re not breaking it we’re breaking its grip.”Victor pressed his hands to the shard’s edge. Heat surged up his arms, blistering, but he pushed harder. Fire leapt skyward, a lance of molten light slamming against the heir’s wrist.The titan roared, jerking back slightly, but its hold didn’t break. Julian screamed, his ribcage caving. “A standing ovation indeed, ah! Don’t let the curtains close on me yet!”Victor’s veins bulged, his voice breaking. “It’s not enou
Chapter 48 : Marked
Ethan’s eyes snapped open. He was still in the void. Still in the infinite black lattice where fragments of the Key pulsed in endless rhythm. But something was wrong.The pulse no longer obeyed him. It burned. A hot, golden burn spreading through his veins. He staggered forward, clutching his chest. “What is this?”The lattice shuddered in response, each glowing node flickering as if struck. A voice followed deep, jagged, hungry. “Prey marked. The Key revealed. You burn last.”Ethan fell to one knee, gasping. The voice wasn’t inside his head. It was inside the Key itself. “No…” His throat constricted. “You’re not supposed to be here. This space isn’t yours!”The golden fire spread through the lattice, a crackling infection. Shapes began to crawl across the black. Vast hands, jaws, molten eyes stretching through the void like shadows made of suns. The heirs.Ethan screamed, slamming his palm against the lattice, forcing his will outward. “Stay out! This is mine!”The lattice pulsed vio
Chapter 49: The Ground Splits Wider
Victor’s jaw clenched. His own arms were blistered raw, bones aching from the last strike. He wanted to tell her to stop, to save herself. Instead, he growled, “Then we use it anyway.”Julian wheezed from the ground, his ribs shattered, his shadows twitching weakly. Yet his grin never faltered. “Oh, charming. Let’s all die beautifully together.”The hybrid crawled forward on hands and knees, trembling. “You don’t understand it’s not just this one. If it fully breaches, it calls the rest. The heirs don’t come one by one they come as a legion!.”Miriam’s head snapped toward him, eyes wide with terror. “You knew this? You knew.”He collapsed against the dirt, sobbing. “I tried, I tried to stop it.” The heir’s burning head tilted, molten teeth bared in something too close to a smile. Its voice rolled like thunder.“The mark is set. The Key burns last.” Victor’s blood turned to ice. Ethan. It kept saying Ethan’s name without saying it.“Shut your mouth!” he bellowed, charging forward. His
Chapter 50: The Legion Stirs
Victor whirled on him, fury blazing in his burned eyes. “What did you do? What aren’t you telling us?”The hybrid’s lips trembled. “I Ethan was supposed to be the only mark. If I spoke the word, it would draw one… not all!,”Miriam’s face went pale. “You lied.” “I didn’t know this would happen!” the hybrid cried, shaking. “The legion was locked. They shouldn’t have been able to hear.”The ground split again, trees collapsing into the abyss. A second hand clawed upward, this one jagged with crystalline bone. A third followed, dripping molten shadow instead of light.Julian clapped weakly, shadows twitching at his fingertips. “Oh, this is marvelous. An ensemble indeed. Tell me, Victor, how many gods can you punch at once?”Victor glared at him. “As many as I have to.”The first heir bellowed, turning its molten face toward its rising siblings. “Rise. Feast. The hunt begins.”Miriam staggered forward, voice shaking. “We can’t hold this. We can’t fight all of them Victor, we have to run.”