The first Frost Wretch reached the tunnel entrance seconds after they fled the underground shelter. Its distorted scream echoed violently through the drainage corridor while frozen claws scraped against the concrete walls behind them. The sound carried through the darkness like sharpened metal tearing across glass, triggering an instinctive surge of panic inside Charlotte.She nearly slipped on the frozen tunnel floor while supporting Ben’s weakening body.“Keep moving!” Victor barked sharply.The emergency flashlight in his hand shook violently as its beam cut through the darkness ahead. The drainage tunnel stretched endlessly forward beneath Lagos, lined with rusted pipes and shallow streams of half-frozen water that reflected pale light across the walls. Behind them, chaos erupted.The Frost Devourer collided with the incoming swarm of Frost Wretches like a monstrous avalanche. Pascal heard bones snapping. Heard creatures shrieking. Heard the wet tearing sounds of frozen flesh rippi

The Gate beneath Lagos roared like a living thing awakening from an ancient sleep. The sound did not travel through the tunnels normally. It vibrated through bone and blood, passing beneath the city like a monstrous heartbeat powerful enough to shake the frozen maintenance chamber apart. Rusted pipes burst overhead while icy water rained across the floor in violent streams.Several survivors screamed as the ground beneath them cracked wider. Then the emergency lights died completely. Darkness swallowed everything. For one suffocating moment, the only visible things inside the chamber were Ben’s glowing white eyes…And the pale Frost Script spreading across the walls. Pascal’s pulse thundered violently inside his chest.The Frost Apostle still knelt before him somewhere within the darkness. He could sense the creature’s presence clearly now, almost instinctively, as though something inside him recognised the Apostle the same way a king recognised his soldiers. That realisation made him

The maintenance chamber froze solid in seconds. Ice erupted across the walls like spreading fractures through glass while pale Frost Script illuminated every surface with ghostly blue light. The remaining survivors stumbled backwards in terror as the temperature plunged far below human survival levels. At the centre of it all stood Pascal. No. Kaeldris.The ancient name continued echoing through his mind like a forgotten truth clawing its way back to life. Victor’s confession shattered something deep inside him. He had not been adopted out of kindness, and not rescued and not loved. He had been contained.Watched.Managed like a sleeping disaster the Beckham family prayed would never awaken.And somehow…That betrayal hurt even more than being thrown into the snow during his first life.Charlotte stared at Victor with open disbelief while icy mist drifted between them.“You knew what he was all these years?” she whispered. Victor’s expression looked exhausted beyond words.“We didn’t fully

The crack beneath the maintenance chamber widened with a thunderous roar. Concrete collapsed into darkness while freezing wind exploded upward from the abyss below, carrying ancient whispers through the chamber like voices buried beneath centuries of ice. The force alone knocked several survivors off their feet.Charlotte nearly lost her grip on Ben. Victor caught her arm before both of them slid toward the collapsing floor.“Move back!” he shouted. Everyone scrambled away from the widening rupture except Pascal. He remained standing at the edge of the abyss, staring downward into the impossible world hidden beneath Lagos.Gigantic frozen gates stretched far below the city like the entrance to another realm entirely. Towering black pillars covered in glowing Frost Script surrounded an enormous underground expanse buried beneath layers of ancient ice. Massive chains thicker than buildings wrapped around the gates themselves while pale blue light pulsed steadily through the cracks betwee

The sound of breaking chains echoed through the abyss like the roar of a dying god. Every living thing inside the maintenance chamber froze instinctively. Soldiers stopped firing. The infected halted mid-attack. Even the Frost Knights lowered their weapons while pale blue fire flickered violently inside their cracked helmets. Then the entire underground chamber shook.Concrete split apart above them while rusted pipes burst overhead, sending freezing water crashing across the floor. The widening crack beneath the chamber pulsed with ancient blue light as something enormous climbed upward from the darkness below.Pascal felt the presence before he saw it.Cold.Not an ordinary cold.A primordial emptiness so vast it felt older than the earth itself. His pulse hammered violently inside his chest. Then came the whispers. Not from outside.From inside his own mind.Welcome home, Sovereign. Pascal staggered backwards immediately.“No…”Seraphine’s expression darkened beside him.“It woke too earl