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Ch-213
The storm had passed, but the air remained heavy, thick with the smell of charred stone and something else—something tainted. Nathan stood at the edge of the ruined chamber, his boots crunching over shattered tiles. He hadn’t needed to call for his power this time. It had come unbidden, rushing into his veins as if the corruption itself had provoked it into existence. And now, after the fight, he could still feel it under his skin, restless, like embers refusing to cool.Bodies lay scattered across the floor—those of the corrupted cultists who had once served the Syndicate, their features twisted grotesquely by the unnatural power they had courted. A faint shimmer still clung to their skin, black veins pulsing as if even in death the corruption tried to claim dominion. Nathan crouched beside one, studying the corpse. He had expected rot, decay, some physical manifestation of the foul energy, but instead, he saw only… hunger. Their faces looked hollow, their eyes empty sockets where fi
Ch-212
The air in the underground chamber stank of damp stone and stale incense. Nathan moved slowly, tracing his gloved hand over the cracked murals etched into the walls. The place had been abandoned for years, yet the residue of power clung like ash. Sigils glowed faintly when his fingertips neared them, pulsing in time with his heartbeat. He hated how the corruption recognized him—like it already had a claim on his flesh.Behind him, Harper’s boots scraped the floor. She carried the lantern, its glow throwing long shadows across the chamber. Miko lingered near the doorway, quiet, his stance tense as a drawn bow. None of them spoke until Nathan crouched before the center of the room, where the broken remains of a mirror lay in jagged shards.“This is where they summoned it,” Nathan muttered. His reflection fractured across a dozen pieces of glass, each shard warping his face into something monstrous. “The corruption didn’t just seep in. It was invited.”Harper knelt beside him, her dark e
Ch-211
The city was wrapped in a storm, the kind that felt deliberate, as though the heavens themselves had conspired to keep people indoors. Nathan moved through the drenched streets with his coat drawn tightly, each step taking him deeper into the side of town where light never lasted. The alleys here were alive with whispers—voices that belonged neither to man nor beast. He had begun to recognize them, faint murmurs on the edge of hearing, like corrupted hymns trying to drag him further in. Tonight was not just about listening. Tonight was about pulling back the veil. The trail had started with a missing constable. Reports said he had been investigating a break-in at the church crypt, but he never returned. Days later, his boots were found at the threshold of an abandoned warehouse—boots still standing upright, as if the man had been plucked straight out of them. That was where Nathan was headed now. The building loomed ahead, its windows blackened, its doors chained. Nathan pressed hi
Ch-210
The room had not been silent since Nathan stepped into it. Though the candles burned low, though the others who gathered there had fallen into whispers, there was still a hum in the air—an almost imperceptible vibration that seemed to come not from within the walls, but from the very stone beneath their feet.He stood at the center of the old library, his eyes running over the blackened shelves and cracked spines. He had always thought of libraries as sanctuaries of reason, but this one mocked him with its silence. Every book looked warped, as if the pages had absorbed too much of something they should never have touched.Elara stood across from him, her hand resting on the edge of the table, her knuckles pale. “This is where it began,” she said. Her voice was low, sharp, but it trembled with something unspoken.Nathan looked up from the piles of documents strewn across the desk. “You mean the corruption?”She nodded. “Not in the city. Not in the court. Here. These were the records of
Ch-209
The night wrapped the city in a suffocating silence, broken only by the pulse of unseen things that lingered between shadows. Nathan walked through the abandoned underpass where whispers had told him a “gathering” would occur. It was not the kind of gathering anyone sane would want to witness—but he had long stopped measuring sanity the way others did. His boots echoed against the cracked concrete, a sound swallowed too quickly, as if the air itself wanted to devour it. He smelled rust before he saw it—the iron tang of dried blood. Graffiti warped into patterns too deliberate to be random spread across the walls, glyphs that writhed when he glanced at them too long. A dozen figures stood ahead, cloaked and faceless. They had dragged someone—some student from the university—into the circle, binding her hands with rope that seemed more like veins than cord. Her sobs echoed softly, breaking against the cold night. Nathan remained hidden at first, his eyes narrowing. This was no ordinar
Ch-208
The chapel’s doors groaned as Nathan and Evelyn pushed them open, each echoing note swallowed by the thick shadows inside. Candles burned along the walls, their flames erratic, as though disturbed by a presence unseen. Dust rose in lazy motes from the flagstone floor. The air carried a weight of history—rituals forgotten, prayers unanswered, secrets sealed.Nathan’s hands instinctively tightened around the book. Its leather cover pulsed faintly, almost alive, as if it could feel the energy in the room, feeding off it. Shadows flickered at the edges of his vision, curling like smoke into shapes that vanished when he looked directly at them.“This place,” Evelyn whispered, “wasn’t abandoned entirely. They used it… as a tether.”Nathan tilted his head. “A tether for what?”She didn’t answer. Her eyes were fixed on the pulsing of the altar stone ahead, where faint carvings glimmered in the candlelight. The symbols shifted subtly, writhing under their gaze. He could feel them—not with his
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