The Bound Archivist raised one chained hand toward Halrune. And the city answered. Ancient convergence symbols ignited beneath the streets with violent force, spreading through the ruins like veins of silver fire beneath flesh. Entire districts shook as buried structures hidden for centuries forced their way upward through collapsing foundations.Towers older than recorded history emerged from beneath the earth. Massive black monoliths split the streets apart. Forgotten ruins awakened beneath the fractured sky. Panic erupted throughout Halrune once more.Citizens fled through crumbling avenues while convergence storms spiralled violently above the city. Summoned beasts howled in terror as ancient energy flooded the air with unbearable pressure. And in the middle of it all, the Bound Archivist stared directly at Kael.“Return the throne to its prison.”Its voice echoed through every fracture simultaneously, reverberating inside Kael’s skull like chains tightening around his thoughts. The

The final chain broke beneath Halrune. The sound did not resemble metal snapping. It sounded like the world itself was cracking open. A deep, thunderous fracture tore through the city from below as ancient convergence surged upward through the streets in violent black waves. Towers collapsed instantly. Entire districts split apart while glowing fissures spread beneath fleeing civilians like veins of darkness erupting from the earth.And then Something beneath the city breathed. Kael felt it through the fractures before he saw it. The Grave Sovereign was waking completely. The pressure alone nearly forced him to his knees atop the shattered tower. Around him, the air distorted violently while the black-gold fractures spreading through Halrune pulsed in unstable rhythm with the Hollow Throne inside his chest.The Endless Hunger stirred eagerly. Another king rises. Kael clenched his jaw hard enough to hurt.“No,” he whispered under his breath. But even he no longer sounded certain. Far be

The world shattered again before Kael could answer. A deafening roar exploded across Halrune as the Ruin Serpent crashed through three of the Bound Archivist’s chains at once. Dead worlds spinning around the skeletal Primordial broke apart in fiery fragments that rained across the fractured heavens like falling stars.The impact tore new wounds into reality itself. Entire sections of the sky folded unnaturally while black-gold fractures spread outward in violent spirals above the city. Convergence storms howled through the ruins with enough force to collapse towers already weakened by battle.And beneath the chaos, the glowing-eyed citizens kept marching toward Kael.Thousands of them. Their movements no longer resembled those of ordinary people. They walked in perfect synchronisation through the broken streets while unstable convergence leaked from their beast contracts like pale smoke. Some were crying. Some whispered prayers. Others smiled with horrifying serenity.The Endless Hunge

The prison screamed. Massive chains stretched across the endless darkness, rattling with enough force to send violent ripples through the black water beneath Kael’s feet. Ancient convergence symbols burned brighter across the void while cracks spread through the abyss like fractures tearing across glass.And somewhere beyond the darkness, something enormous was breathing. Kael felt the sound before he fully heard it. Each slow inhale sent tremors through the prison itself, as though the entity moving beyond the void possessed enough presence to warp the structure imprisoning Elyr.The young man seated upon the Hollow Throne rose immediately. For the first time since Kael entered the prison, Elyr looked genuinely terrified.“You shouldn’t have come now,” he said quietly. Kael stared toward the distant darkness where colossal movement distorted the void itself.“What is that thing?”Elyr did not answer immediately. Instead, he stepped down from the throne slowly, chains tightening around h

“You were always meant to replace him.”The words crashed through the collapsing prison with enough force to make the black water beneath Kael’s feet erupt into violent waves. Above him, the Devourer loomed like the death of creation itself.Its body no longer resembled a living creature. Endless flesh twisted through the void in constantly shifting forms while countless crimson eyes opened and closed across its surface like living stars drowning in blood. Entire worlds remained trapped inside its monstrous body, broken mountains, ruined cities, oceans suspended within translucent flesh like memories devoured but never fully digested.And at the centre of that abomination, a hollow space remained open.Waiting.Prepared.For him. Kael’s breathing slowed involuntarily as the Devourer leaned closer. The pressure radiating from the creature distorted the prison itself. Cracks spread endlessly through the void while ancient chains snapped one after another in explosive bursts of convergence l