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128. And the sky breathed

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The words “Not today” were still leaving Adam’s lips when the sky shuddered—actually shuddered—as though something enormous pressed its weight against the world’s ceiling, straining the thin membrane of reality. A low, resonant hum vibrated through the streets, rattling windows and bones alike.

Lilith stumbled back, clutching her ears. Kaleb braced himself against a toppled lamppost. And Adam… Adam stood in the center of the trembling street, his hair whipped upward by an unseen current, his eyes reflecting the warping sky.

Malrick hovered beside him—half-shadow, half-form, far more solid now than ever. His shape flickered between a skeletal silhouette and a war-scarred humanoid presence draped in darkness, the air around him bending slightly like heat distortion.

“The barrier ruptures,” Malrick murmured, voice rough, ancient. “You have seconds, boy. Only seconds before it widens.”

Above them, the sky split.

It didn’t crack. It didn’t tear. It opened—slowly, like the eyelid of a colos

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133. The hunger above the sky
Adam did not remember collapsing. He only remembered the rip—like something had torn through his mind and body at the same time—and then everything went silent.When he opened his eyes, the world was wrong.He was lying on something soft and warm, but it wasn’t soil or floor or stone. It gave under his weight with a slow, pulsing rhythm, like the surface of a sleeping creature. Thin veins glowed faintly beneath the flesh-like surface, moving in patterns he didn’t understand.Adam pushed himself upright with a sharp breath.Above him, there was no sky.Not darkness—darkness was normal.This was a void of shifting, thick shadow, oil-slick and alive, swirling like smoke made of memory and hunger.He stood too fast and stumbled. Every movement made the “ground” ripple outward like disturbed water.“This isn’t the fracture,” he whispered.It wasn’t the church.It wasn’t the psychic plane.It wasn’t any dimension he had ever felt before.This place was older than language.A soft step echoe
132. The void that remembers him
Darkness wasn’t the right word.Darkness was absence.This… this was presence.Adam’s eyes snapped open—or he thought they did. There was no sense of a body, no arms, no legs, no breath. Only floating consciousness suspended in a place that pulsed like a sleeping giant’s heartbeat.WHUM.A tremor rippled through the black expanse.WHUM.The void vibrated again… answering him.Then came the whisper.Not sound.Not voice.More like a memory pushed under his skin.“At last.”Adam tried to speak, but the realm swallowed the attempt. Words dissolved. Thoughts thinned. He felt the Vessel inside him—quiet for weeks—begin to stretch like a beast uncurling after centuries.A shape emerged.Not walking.Not floating.Forming.A towering silhouette, tall enough that Adam felt like an ant before a mountain. Twisted limbs like smoke and bone. Dozens of eyes blinking open along its body, each one staring directly into him.The Entity.The real one.Not the fragment inside him.Not the psychic echo
131. Bleeding city
The ash from the corrupted woman hadn’t even settled before the world shifted again.A wind blew through the empty street—cold, metallic, sour. It carried with it the faintest echo of laughter… wrong laughter, layered and distorted, as if someone had stretched human amusement into something predatory.Lilith’s arms wrapped around herself. “The air feels thin.”Kaleb shook his head. “Not thin. Contaminated.”Adam didn’t answer. He stood rooted to the spot where the woman had crumbled, jaw clenched, eyes darkened with something between dread and fury. Malrick floated beside him—half-formed, the faint shape of ribs and shoulders glimmering under his smoky outline.The Entity had touched the world.There was no pulling back now.---Across the city, things escalated quickly.Phones glitched. Screens flickered with static and symbols that didn’t belong to any alphabet.In apartments, people jolted awake from nightmares with bleeding noses. Some stood motionless in their bedrooms, staring i
130. The rot that walks
The first sign that something was wrong came at dawn.The city was too quiet.Lilith noticed it before anyone else. She stood at the cracked edge of the liminal layer, watching the veil thin with unnatural sharpness. She could see faint, flickering silhouettes of the real world—buildings, streets, the soft morning glow—but something was off. The sunlight didn’t look like sunlight. It was pale, diluted, as if filtered through something sickly.And then she heard it.A low hum, like insects buzzing inside walls.Kaleb stepped beside her, rubbing sleep from his eyes. “Is it shifting again?”“Not just shifting,” Lilith whispered. “Something is leaking.”She turned.Adam stood behind them, still pale from the aftermath of being dragged from the Entity’s domain. Malrick hovered close, more solid than ever, as if the ordeal had empowered him too. Shadows trailed behind him like dark, sentient smoke.Adam frowned at the strange dimness. His voice was rough but steady. “No… it’s not leaking.”
129. The Vessel awakens
Adam opened his eyes, but it was not the world he remembered. The sky above was a swirl of black and red, fractured like broken glass, and the ground beneath him rippled as if it were alive, breathing. Shadows moved independently of the faint light, twisting around shapes that were half-recognizable: distorted buildings, warped trees, and echoes of the church he had once walked past. He wasn’t just awake—he was trapped inside the Entity’s domain, a place older than time, older than memory, where reality was flexible and pain was a tangible force.Malrick’s voice erupted in his mind, sharper than ever. “Welcome to its heart, boy. Every thought, every hesitation is a lever for it to pull. Do not yield.”Adam’s chest heaved. Fear, rage, and an unnatural clarity coiled together inside him. He felt the Vessel inside stir, responding to the presence around him, growing stronger. The Entity’s essence pulsed through the air, probing, whispering, daring him to break. Every movement was heavy;
128. And the sky breathed
The words “Not today” were still leaving Adam’s lips when the sky shuddered—actually shuddered—as though something enormous pressed its weight against the world’s ceiling, straining the thin membrane of reality. A low, resonant hum vibrated through the streets, rattling windows and bones alike.Lilith stumbled back, clutching her ears. Kaleb braced himself against a toppled lamppost. And Adam… Adam stood in the center of the trembling street, his hair whipped upward by an unseen current, his eyes reflecting the warping sky.Malrick hovered beside him—half-shadow, half-form, far more solid now than ever. His shape flickered between a skeletal silhouette and a war-scarred humanoid presence draped in darkness, the air around him bending slightly like heat distortion.“The barrier ruptures,” Malrick murmured, voice rough, ancient. “You have seconds, boy. Only seconds before it widens.”Above them, the sky split.It didn’t crack. It didn’t tear. It opened—slowly, like the eyelid of a colos

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