All Chapters of SHADOWS OF THE VEIL: Chapter 191
- Chapter 200
235 chapters
Chapter 194_THE ECHOES OF AN ANCIENT KING
The vortex of astral winds howled through the shattered valley as Ethan landed heavily, dust spiraling around him like a living storm. His chest rose and fell with controlled breaths—he had finally stabilized the rampaging power of the Heaven-Piercing Domain.But something wasn’t right.The ground beneath his feet trembled rhythmically… as if answering to a heartbeat buried deep within the earth.Kael and Princess Aria stood behind him, their faces tense, their weapons drawn. Even Lyra Veyin, usually calm and unreadable, tightened her grip on her astral staff.“Ethan…” Kael whispered. “This place feels wrong.”“It’s not the place,” Ethan replied slowly. “It’s the presence.”A thick pulse of ancient pressure hit them—dense, domineering, suffocating.It wasn’t demonic.It wasn’t celestial.It wasn’t human.It was something older.Something that slept.Something that was waking.---THE SEAL BREAKSA golden fissure split across the valley floor, shining like a crack in the world itself.
Chapter 195_THE KING’S HAND OF JUDGMENT
The golden sky split apart as the Ancient King thrust his palm forward, releasing a devastating wave of Primordial Sovereign Force. It wasn’t just energy—it was authority, the kind of power that ruled entire eras.BOOOOOM!!!A shockwave ripped across the valley.Ethan reacted instantly. The Heaven-Piercing Domain expanded around him, meeting the attack head-on. Space warped violently. Rocks vaporized. Mountains tilted.But the difference in age—in mastery—in sheer existence—was overwhelming.Ethan was sent skidding backward, gouging a deep trench through the earth.Kael rushed forward. “Ethan!”“Stay back!” Ethan shouted, wiping blood from his lip. “This isn’t pressure from this era. You can’t take it.”The king descended slowly, steps echoing like thunder.“You possess my flame… yet you are not of my lineage.”“You carry my authority… yet you are born of the modern heavens.”“You are a paradox. A threat.”Ethan clenched his fists.“I don’t even know who you are!”The king’s golden
Chapter 196_THE FRAGMENT THAT SHOULDN’T EXIST
The sky shattered.Ethan and the Corrupted Eternal Sun King slammed into each other, gold and black flames twisting into a storm that bent the very laws of existence.BOOOOMMMMM!!!Shockwaves rolled across the valley, flattening mountains, ripping trees from their roots, and sending Kael, Aria, and Lyra flying backward.Kael hit the ground hard.“Ethan!!”Aria shielded her eyes.“This power… it’s beyond anything from this era!”Lyra’s voice trembled.“No—this isn’t just power. This is cause-and-effect authority. The king is fighting with his era’s law!”---ETHAN’S INNER VOICE AWAKENSMidair, Ethan felt something inside him… stir.A voice—calm, ancient, and echoing with forgotten royalty—whispered from within his soul.“Bearer… you must not fall.”Ethan gritted his teeth.“You again… Who are you?”The voice answered:“I am the fragment the king lost.The part of him that refused annihilation.The part that carried hope.”Ethan’s heart froze.“So you’re… his soul?”“No.”The voice grew
Chapter 197_WHEN A KING TREMBLES
The world held its breath.The Eternal Sun King—Oros Valen, Destroyer of Eras—took one step back.Only one.But that single step sent shockwaves across the battlefield and made the air tighten like the world itself had gasped.Kael whispered, voice trembling,“He… retreated. The king actually retreated…”Aria shook her head slowly.“No… kings like him don’t retreat. They recalculate.This means Ethan has become a true threat.”Lyra’s eyes didn’t blink.“Be careful, Ethan… a cornered sovereign is the most dangerous monster alive.”---THE KING BREAKS HIS SILENCEOros Valen raised his gaze.He looked at Ethan—not as a host, not as prey, not as an insect…But as a rival.“So.”His voice echoed like thunder crawling through stone.“You fused with the Remnant Prince.”Ethan hovered in the air, golden-black flames spreading behind him like wings made from a collapsing star.“Not fused,” Ethan corrected.“We stand together.”The king’s jaw tightened—barely, but enough for the world to notice
Chapter 198_THE FIRST DROP OF SOLAR BLOOD
Time stopped.Ethan’s fist pressed against the colossal cheek of the Eternal Sun King—a being who hadn’t been touched, startled, or forced backward in ten thousand years.And then—BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!Ethan’s punch detonated like a collapsing star.The impact rippled outward in golden-black waves, cracking the king’s cosmic face like fractured glass.A single droplet of luminous gold slid down—Slow.Heavy.Thick like molten starlight.It hit the ground.SSSSSHHHHHH—The earth sizzled, melted, and instantly turned into a crater of smoking glass.Kael’s jaw dropped.“No way… NO WAY—”Aria whispered like she’d seen a miracle.“He made the king bleed…”Lyra trembled, voice breaking.“That’s impossible. Sovereigns don’t bleed… they unmake.”But the proof glowed on the broken ground.A drop of solar blood.---THE KING REACTS – A CELESTIAL ROAROros Valen didn’t move for a heartbeat.Then—His entire titan body convulsed.A scream ripped out of him—deep, cosmic, ancient—like a dying sta
Chapter 199 — The Echoes of a Silent War
The night sky above the Oblivion Rift churned like boiling ink, streaked with veins of crimson lightning. Ethan stood at the cliff’s edge, his cloak fluttering in the violent wind as the ground trembled beneath him. The air smelled of ozone, ancient dust, and something else—something alive.Behind him, Hana, Rick, Zuri, and Frost gathered, each wearing the same tense expression.A storm was forming… but not a natural one.Rick stepped forward, his expression unusually serious.“Ethan… that thing is waking up. I can feel it crawling through the ley-lines. Whatever this Rift is hiding—it’s not meant for the living.”Ethan didn’t reply immediately. His senses were buzzing, the Oblivion Core thrumming inside him like a heartbeat.He could feel it too.Hana gripped her staff tighter.“Should we seal it now? Before it fully awakens?”Zuri shook her head sharply.“No. If we seal it without knowing what’s behind the Rift, we could trap something stronger… or trigger a full eruption.”“Great,”
Chapter 200 — The Bridge That Remains
The chamber shook like the world was cracking open from the inside.Rick stood in the center of the collapsing ritual circle, the last marks of the Bridge’s power still burning faintly across his arms. The air around him rippled with unstable magic—blue, gold, and shadow-black all twisting like three storms fighting for control.Lira limped toward him, clutching her shoulder.“Rick—don’t fade. Stay with me.”He breathed hard, forcing himself to remain upright.“I’m not going anywhere… not yet.”Kai dragged himself up from a pile of shattered stone, coughing dust.“That thing… is it dead?”Rick stared forward, his vision clearing.The creature—an ancient Veilborn Horror sealed under the city—lay sprawled across the ruined floor. Its tendrils were charred to ash. Its core had split in two. The enormous single eye that once stared into Rick’s soul was now lifeless and hollow.“Yeah,” Rick whispered.“It’s finished.”For a moment, the chamber grew quiet.No breathing horrors.No screaming
Book 1 has been Completed; From this Chapter Onward is the Book 2 Chapter 201
BOOK 2 — CHAPTER 201“One Year Later”The moon hung low over Blackridge City, its silver glow cutting through the drifting fog like a blade. The city had changed in one year…But not as much as Rick Dalton.He walked alone on the rooftop of an abandoned high-rise, long coat fluttering in the cold wind. His aura, once unstable and unpredictable, now pulsed with calm control—like a quiet storm waiting to be unleashed.One year ago, he was a confused newcomer trying to survive the supernatural underworld.Now…Rick was a name whispered with caution.A name feared.A name respected.He didn’t ask for it—power simply had a way of dragging a man into the center of chaos whether he wanted it or not.---THE CITY IS NO LONGER QUIETFrom up here, Rick could see the changes.New factions had appeared.Old enemies had resurfaced.Creatures that once hid in the shadows now roamed boldly.The peace he fought for was only temporary.Even now, he could feel it—A faint vibration in the air.A distur
BOOK 2 — CHAPTER 202_“THE CITY THAT BREATHES SECRETS”
Blackridge City never slept—But tonight, it trembled.Rick walked through the fog-layered streets with the same caution he had learned in the last few dangerous months. His boots splashed quietly against puddles reflecting broken neon signs. Every sound felt sharper. Every shadow felt alive. Ever since the incident with the Herald of Oblivion, the city behaved like something had been awakened underneath it.And Rick could feel it too—not with his eyes,not with his ears,but with that strange power humming inside his blood.A pulse.A call.A warning.---THE SHADOWBINDER ARRIVESA slim figure leaned on a lamppost ahead, smoking lazily. Rick recognized him instantly.Grayson Ward.Shadowbinder.Professional trouble magnet.Reluctant ally.“You’re late,” Grayson said without looking at him.“I didn’t know we fixed a time,” Rick replied.“You didn’t. The city did.”Rick frowned. “What’s that supposed to mean?”Grayson flicked his cigarette into the gutter.“Blackridge is shifting. I c
BOOK 2 — CHAPTER 203_“THE THING THAT WAKES WHEN RICK BLEEDS”
The Veil corridor flickered again, harsher this time—like lightning trapped in a mirror. Rick felt the pulse inside him throb in response, syncing with the cracks around them.Liora stepped back.Grayson summoned shadows around his fists.But Rick… Rick just stood there, breathing hard, jaw tight.Because the pulse wasn’t just a feeling anymore.It was a heartbeat.And it wasn’t his.---THE MESSAGE FROM THE DEEPER VEILThe shimmering corridor suddenly warped, compressing inward. A cluster of fae sigils flared as Liora raised a glowing barrier to stabilize it.“We don’t have long,” she whispered. “The Veil is destabilizing faster than we thought.”Rick stepped closer.“Tell me exactly what’s inside me.”Liora hesitated.So did Grayson.That was enough to make Rick’s pulse spike with anger.“Don’t hide things from me anymore,” Rick snapped. “Not after everything.”Grayson sighed.“Fine. But you’re not going to like it.”---THE TRUTH, PIECED TOGETHERLiora slowly turned toward Rick.He