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Chapter 11: Thorns of the Forgotten
Author: O.O.C Gabriel
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They moved under the veil of morning mist, where trees grew tall and thin like grasping hands, and the roads turned to stone riddled with roots.

Kael said little as they walked. His body ached from travel, but it was the ache of truths, not just muscles—the kind that crept into your bones and refused to let go.

Thorne walked ahead, muttering lines from a weathered scroll. Seris took up the rear, blade wrapped in its weather cloth but never far from reach. The pendant at Kael’s chest had been quiet since Drenn’s Hollow, but its silence didn’t bring peace. If anything, it felt like the breath before a scream.

[System Update: Codex Entry Unlocked — “Echo-Born: The Wyrm Keys”]

The message had arrived that morning, glowing faintly in his vision as they crossed into the last pass before the Vanguard ruins.

Kael read it again now.

Codex Entry: Echo-Born

In rare cases, a child born from two powerful, opposing bloodlines may inherit both strengths—and both curses. Such children are called Echo
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  • Chapter 11: Thorns of the Forgotten

    They moved under the veil of morning mist, where trees grew tall and thin like grasping hands, and the roads turned to stone riddled with roots.Kael said little as they walked. His body ached from travel, but it was the ache of truths, not just muscles—the kind that crept into your bones and refused to let go.Thorne walked ahead, muttering lines from a weathered scroll. Seris took up the rear, blade wrapped in its weather cloth but never far from reach. The pendant at Kael’s chest had been quiet since Drenn’s Hollow, but its silence didn’t bring peace. If anything, it felt like the breath before a scream.[System Update: Codex Entry Unlocked — “Echo-Born: The Wyrm Keys”]The message had arrived that morning, glowing faintly in his vision as they crossed into the last pass before the Vanguard ruins.Kael read it again now.Codex Entry: Echo-BornIn rare cases, a child born from two powerful, opposing bloodlines may inherit both strengths—and both curses. Such children are called Echo

  • Chapter 10: Blood-names and Bonds

    The wind tasted of ash.Kael stood at the edge of the pass between the Rift’s spiral and the first outer settlement: a small fortress-town called Drenn’s Hollow, built atop old battlegrounds from the first Wyrmbound incursion. Cracked obelisks rose like broken teeth, each carved with sigils so faded even the System took several seconds to translate them.Thorne walked ahead, murmuring. “This place was once a boundary ward. When the Rift first opened, the Spiral Guard held the line here until they were overrun.”Seris surveyed the narrow paths between stone ruins and brush. “Then we tread on ghosts.”Kael’s pendant buzzed faintly. It always did when he neared old sealzones. But this time, something in the pull felt... personal.[System Alert: Bloodline Reaction Detected — External Source Nearby]He froze.“Thorne.”The old mage turned. “What is it?”Kael pointed at his chest. “Someone here has my blood. Or something twisted from it.”Before Thorne could respond, a voice called from beh

  • Chapter 9: Whispering Rib

    The chamber pulsed like a wounded heart.Kael knelt before the ribcage—blackened, cracked, yet unmistakably alive. The crystal coffin barely contained the thing within: a single massive bone, spiraled like a serpent’s fang, etched with runes so ancient the air around them shimmered.[System Alert: Unknown Entity—Wyrmbound Class Detected]Initiating mental defense layer...Warning: Psyche Intrusion Level 2 / Consciousness Drift Risk: 42%Kael's breath caught. “It’s... it’s inside my head.”“Don’t let it anchor,” Thorne warned sharply. “It’ll speak in you. Through you. It doesn’t knock—it leaks.”The voice came not as words, but as feeling: cold rain on a sunless day. Memories not his own surged in flashes.Golden eyes watching a burning sky.Hands—his hands?—gripping a bloody throne of bone.A woman’s voice screaming his name, not as Kael, but something older: “Ardyn... Ardyn, come back!”Kael clutched his chest. “It knows me.”Seris moved closer, sword trembling. “No—it knows him. The

  • Chapter 8: The Wyrmbound Dreams

    The Rift pulsed beneath their feet.As Kael stepped into its threshold, the air changed. It thickened with memories not his own, buzzing with old magic and aching silence. The ground sloped downward in spirals—each layer of stone and ash revealing carvings, sigils, and half-sunken relics from an age the world had buried.Seris walked at his right, blade drawn, though the wind here seemed to devour all sound. Thorne hovered slightly behind, one hand on his staff, his other tracing runes mid-air to ward off distortions.“We’re crossing into a dream of the past,” Thorne warned. “The Rift doesn’t just show memories. It replays them. Don’t trust what you see. And don’t wander off the spiral.”Kael nodded, but he already felt the tug—a soft current pulling his thoughts backward.[System Alert: Entered Rift Zone - Inner Boundary]Temporal Drift: Severe Reality Layering Detected: Multi-threaded time signature Warning: Memory Integration Risk 74%The path coiled deeper, torchlight from Thorne’

  • Chapter 7: The Rift Breathes

    They called it the Veilroad—a forgotten stretch of cracked earth and moss-covered stones that wound through the northern forests, leading toward the jagged cliffs where the Rift slept.The deeper they traveled, the quieter the world became. Birds grew scarce. Even the wind moved differently—curling in half-circles, as if trying to reverse its own direction. The trees leaned unnaturally inward, their trunks bending as if bowing toward something buried.Kael rode in silence on the back of the Windfold, eyes scanning the horizon. Thorne walked beside him, murmuring runes under his breath, while Seris moved ahead like a shadow with eyes.The pendant around Kael’s neck had not stopped humming since sunrise.[System Alert: Mana Density Exceeding Safe Threshold]Abnormal spiritual interference detected.Caution: Temporal anomalies likely within next 12 miles.Kael showed Thorne the message.The old mage’s eyes narrowed. “We’re too close to turn back.”“Define ‘temporal anomalies,’” Kael mutt

  • Chapter 6: Echoes of the Rift

    The wound whispered.Kael sat beneath the dying orange sky, his fingers lightly brushing the healing gash on his left bicep. It wasn’t deep—Seris had already dressed it—but something strange clung to it. Not pain. Not fatigue.Memory.He had seen it last night—flashes not his own. A gaunt face screaming in a collapsing temple. A hand reaching toward flame. A broken pendant falling into dark waters.And then it was gone.[New Trait Active: Wound Reading]Description: Allows the host to intuit biological trauma—and in rare cases, absorb psychic remnants left in muscle or nerve tissue.Note: Echoes may present as fragmented visions. Trait is unstable in early stages.Kael shook his head. “That doesn’t help much.”“What doesn’t?” Seris asked from across the glade. She was oiling her blade with the same care others gave to prayer.Kael hesitated. “When I got hit last night… after I used Pulse Cut… something showed me a memory. But not mine.”Seris lowered her cloth. “Whose was it?”“I don’

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