Home / Fantasy / Heir of Lightening / Chapter 215. He who understands the laws.

Chapter 215. He who understands the laws.

2025-09-26 23:35:22

The sky was a wound ripped open by power that defied every rule Vael had spent his life mastering. The rift bled silver light, spilling across the battlefield like liquid moonfire. Soldiers on both sides froze mid stride, blades hovering in the air, arrows suspended like startled birds. Even the thunder in the clouds seemed to falter, each rumble stretched and warped, as though the world itself struggled to keep pace.

And then he stepped through.

The figure emerged with no sound, no flare of Qi, no pressure of aura. Yet the very sight of him made the marrow in Vael’s bones shiver. He was not tall, not armored, not crowned with any sign of royalty, only a man in plain robes the color of ancient parchment, hair streaked with silver as if the heavens had brushed him with moonlight. But with a single flick of his wrist, time itself bent.

The charge of demon beasts slowed to a crawl. Their roars dragged into distorted echoes. A thousand blades that had been swinging toward Vael now tremble

Continue to read this book for free

Scan the code to download the app

Previous Chapter Next Chapter

Chapter 236. The Hidden Bargain.
Vael POVThe night in Erebo never brightened. It only shifted shades of shadow, from deep indigo to a dim violet twilight that passed for dawn. Vael had already stopped looking for a sun. The Black Garden breathed its own rhythm, windless, yet always stirring, like the whisper of lungs too vast to belong to any man.Kirin hadn’t spoken to him since Seth’s appearance.The Wardens had dismissed the confrontation without a word of explanation. They simply dispersed the refugees, ordered their captains to maintain camp order, and vanished into the upper terraces. Only Seth had lingered long enough to smirk before dissolving into mist, as though he had never been there at all.Vael couldn’t let it go.That was why he now walked alone toward the Warden Spire, the obsidian needle that jutted into the twilight sky. The refugees called it a tower, but Vael had seen enough of Erebo to know better, it wasn’t built. It had grown, crystallized from living dusk rock that drank light.The Wardens ha
Chapter 235. Seth’s Return.
The southern cliffs of Erebo were still bleeding black mist from the night’s skirmish when the air shifted again, an unsettling ripple that felt too deliberate to be a natural rift. Kirin sensed it first. His Chaos Lightning hissed across his skin like a nest of angry serpents, warning him that something dangerous and personal had crossed into their perimeter.He turned toward the obsidian ridge behind the camp. A lone figure stood on the jagged slope, half hidden in the smoke.For a heartbeat Kirin thought his mind was breaking.The silhouette was wrong in a hundred tiny ways, longer in the shoulders, leaner in the waist, posture more like a predator than a boy. But the face, when the wind pulled back the hood, was burned into Kirin’s memory like an old scar.Seth?Except... not the Seth he remembered.The friend who once laughed beside him in the academy was gone. This Seth looked older, almost weather worn, as if he’d lived a hundred years in the short time since their last encount
Chapter 234. Echoes Through the Rift.
The sky above Erebo was a restless bruise of black and violet, stitched with faint silver lightning that never quite struck. Kirin stood at the edge of the Black Perch, the hovering terrace where the refugees had built their first semblance of a camp, and felt the storm hum in his bones. Ever since the Trial, the realm’s energy clung to him like static—every shift in Erebo’s fabric echoed through his Chaos Lightning, a private alarm bell he couldn’t shut off.Tonight, that alarm rang sharp.“Something’s wrong,” he muttered.Vael appeared beside him, silent as always, his long coat rippling in the chill. The veteran’s face looked more carved than ever, hard lines etched by sleepless nights. “You feel it too,” Vael said. It wasn’t a question.Before Kirin could answer, a shadow dropped from the upper air. One of the Sky Wardens—armor shimmering like fractured glass—landed with a soft whumph. Its masked face tilted toward them, the single vertical slit of its helm glowing faintly.“Rift
Chapter 233. The Trial of Veins Part II.
Kirin’s heartbeat slowed as the silver lit path stretched before him. Each step resonated with a deep thoom, as though the realm itself acknowledged his defiance. The oppressive weight that had nearly broken him in the first stage now receded, leaving behind a strange quiet, a pause before the next storm.He flexed his fingers, testing the feel of his own power. His Chaos Lightning no longer roared like a hungry beast. Instead, it pulsed with the steady rhythm of the Dusk Qi he had just faced and survived. The fusion of the two energies buzzed in his veins like a storm contained inside a crystal cage.“Alright,” he muttered, voice echoing through the pulsating cavern of roots. “What’s next? Another round of trauma I ptesume?”The roots answered with a low hum. Ahead, the path widened into a glowing basin. At its center stood a single obelisk of black crystal, jagged and wet with flowing Dusk Qi. Vines curled around it like veins around a heart, their pulses synced to his own.When he
Chapter 232. The Trial of Veins Part I.
The Wardens called it a trial, but the chamber felt more like a heart.Kirin stood barefoot on a floor of black crystal veined with violet light, the glow pulsing in time with some deep, subterranean rhythm. The air tasted metallic, like blood and lightning fused into a single breath. Around the perimeter, the Sky Wardens stood motionless, sentinels of living stone whose faces bore no eyes, only a lattice of faintly glowing fissures. Vael and General Myra waited just beyond the threshold, barred from entry by a wall of shimmering dusk.“You are the unstable one,” the lead Warden intoned, voice echoing through the chamber like grinding stone. “To remain here, you must thread the roots of Erebo. The blood of this realm must taste your memory.”“Sounds Uuhm ... friendly,” Kirin muttered, trying to mask the crackle in his voice. His Chaos Lightning hummed beneath his skin, restless as a trapped animal.The Warden raised a clawed hand and pressed it to the ground. The crystal floor softene
Chapter 231. A Signal from Subspace.
The silence inside Yose’s chamber was so complete it felt like the air itself had forgotten how to vibrate.Vael sat cross legged on the glassy floor, staring into a darkness that wasn’t quite black.It pulsed faintly, like deep ocean water with no surface.Here, time was elastic.His heartbeat had slowed to a crawl days ago, if days even existed in this pocket world.He had stopped trying to count.Then the tremor came.It wasn’t the world ending roar he expected.It was a hum, a vibration that threaded through the floor and into the marrow of his bones.The chamber brightened by a fraction, enough to reveal the faint outline of Yose standing several paces away.The Ponderer hadn’t moved since sealing the Demon Lords, but now his form glowed with an unsettling stillness, like a statue preparing to breathe.“Vael,” Yose said, his voice carrying the weight of entire constellations.“You’ve watched long enough.”Vael forced himself to stand. His knees protested.He’d thought he was prep

You may also like

Into The Unknown World

unparalleled sword sovereign

Isekai Grimoire System

I Shall Eat The Heavens

A Cat's Tale (The Secret Desires of Hotaru Nyanko)

Untouchable Arnold Hayes

THE VEILED MASTER

The Gate of Eternity Curse of Heaven

Latest Chapter

Chapter 236. The Hidden Bargain.

Chapter 235. Seth’s Return.

Chapter 234. Echoes Through the Rift.

Chapter 233. The Trial of Veins Part II.

Chapter 232. The Trial of Veins Part I.

Chapter 231. A Signal from Subspace.