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Chapter 30 - The Corruption's Temptation
Author: I.J RAVELLE
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Chapter 30

Smoke curled around the ruins of the observatory like fingers from a dying flame.

Adrian stood motionless, his body thrumming with forbidden energy. The Soul Harvester’s body lay shattered against the far wall, his robes torn and smoldering, the stolen soul threads unraveling into the air.

But Adrian wasn’t looking at the corpse.

He was staring at his own hands.

They weren’t his anymore.

His fingertips glowed faintly gold etched with runes he didn’t recognize but instinctively understood. He could still feel the echo of the power he’d unleashed. How it had bent the world around him. How it had obeyed.

It felt good. Too good.

A quiet voice whispered from somewhere in the back of his mind.

“See how easily they fall when you stop pretending to be weak?”

He flinched.

Behind him, Seraphina rose from the rubble, holding her side, blood staining her tunic. Her expression wasn’t relief.

It was fear.

“Adrian… what was that?”

He turned slowly, eyes dimming from black-gold back to th
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