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Chapter 54
The great white light of the Sun-Ships had finally faded. For a long time, there was only a terrible, heavy silence. The Slum District was gone. Where there had once been narrow streets, crowded shacks, and the smell of cooking fires, there was now only a flat, gray desert of ash. Smoke rose from the ground in thin, lazy lines, like the ghosts of the people who had lived there.Deep beneath the center of this ruin, miles under the dirt and the stone, a purple crystal sat in the dark. It was quiet. It was still. Elara Payne was safe inside her tomb of time.But on the surface, the world was still full of hate.Drogo Payne stood in the center of the gray wasteland. He was alone. His obsidian skin was cracked. One of his black wings was broken, hanging from his shoulder like a torn sail. His violet eyes were dim, the fire inside them flickering like a candle in a storm. He was at the very end of his strength. His mana was gone. His mother was gone. His sister was gone.[VITALITY: 4%.]
Chapter 53
The world was ending. Above the Slum District, the golden ships of the Sun-King were firing their cannons. The air was full of screaming metal and the smell of burning mud. But Drogo Payne did not look up. He did not care about the fire falling from the sky. He did not care about the soldiers or the Inquisitors.He only cared about the woman in his arms.Elara Payne was cold. Her skin was the color of a winter cloud. Her eyes were closed. Her heart had stopped beating. The Holy Glass shard had taken the last of her life. To any doctor, to any priest, she was dead. She was gone.But Drogo refused to accept the rules of the world."No," Drogo whispered. His voice was a deep, dark rumble that made the ground beneath him shake. "You do not get to take her. I climbed out of the Chasm. I ate the fire. I am the Breaker. I say she stays."[SYSTEM MESSAGE: SUBJECT ELARA PAYNE HAS EXPIRED.][STATUS: BRAIN ACTIVITY CEASING. SOUL DEPARTURE COMPLETE.][ADVICE: ABANDON THE VESSEL. PROCEED TO MISSI
Chapter 52
The ruins of the Warren were silent, except for the sound of fire. The air was thick with the smell of wet ash and the sharp, metallic tang of ozone. Drogo Payne sat in the dirt, the shattered wood of his home all around him. He did not feel the cold mud on his knees. He did not hear the distant shouting of the Solaris Guards.He only felt the woman in his arms.Elara Payne was as light as a handful of dry leaves. Her skin, once gray from the slag-sickness, was now a ghostly, translucent white. The shard of Holy Glass in her chest continued to pulse with a soft, cruel light. Every time it glowed, Elara’s body shook with a small, painful tremor.Drogo looked at his own hands. They were huge. They were made of obsidian stone. The violet fire in his veins made his skin look like it was cracked and burning from the inside. He tried to adjust how he held her, but his stone-like fingers were clumsy. He was afraid that even a small movement would break her brittle bones."Mama," Drogo whis
Chapter 51
Drogo moved the stone beam off her legs. It was easy. It felt like it weighed nothing. He gently lifted her head, resting it on his lap.Elara’s eyes fluttered.She struggled to open them. When she finally did, they were not clear. They were cloudy, filled with a soft, white glow. The Holy Glass was taking her.She looked up at Drogo. She saw the obsidian skin. She saw the black veins. She saw the monster that the Empire had created.But she didn't look afraid.She reached up a hand. Her fingers were thin and cold. She touched the side of Drogo’s face. Her thumb brushed against the black, stone-like skin of his cheek."Drogo..." she whispered. A small trail of red blood ran down from the corner of her mouth. "You... you came back.""I'm here, Mama," Drogo said. He was crying now. The black tears were running down his face, falling onto her chest. "I'm going to fix it. I'm going to take the glass out. Just hold on.""No," Elara said. She coughed, and the Holy Glass in her chest pulsed
Chapter 50
The mud was cold, but the air was screaming. Drogo Payne lay face-down in the black dirt of the Warren. His eyes were closed, but he could feel the world shaking. Above him, the sky was not the sky anymore. It was a ceiling of gold and silver. The Sun-Ships, the massive flying fortresses of the Empire, were moving into place. Their engines made a sound like a thousand angry lions, a deep, vibrating hum that made the very bones of the earth rattle.[STATUS: SEVERE MANA DEPLETION.][CORE STATUS: DORMANT.][VITALITY: 12%.][REMAINING STRENGTH: PHYSICAL ONLY.]Drogo’s fingers twitched. He dug his black, obsidian nails into the mud. He tried to push himself up, but his arms felt like they were made of lead. The fight with Lady Sylas had taken everything. He had eaten the "Absolute Zero" frost, and then he had given his own life-heat to save the people. He was an empty vessel again. He was back to being a Null—a boy with nothing but a broken body and a heavy heart."Get... up..." Drogo
Chapter 49
A wave of blue frost shot out. It moved so fast that the air itself turned to snow. The frost hit Drogo’s chest, and for a second, the violet fire on his wings died down. A layer of thick, blue ice began to grow over his obsidian skin. It moved up his legs, over his stomach, and toward his heart.Drogo felt the cold. It was a cold that wanted to stop time. It wanted to turn his thoughts into stone."Drogo!" He heard a voice. It was Silas, shouting from inside his metal sphere.Drogo looked at the ice on his chest. He felt the Archive whispering in his mind. “The cold is just a lack of energy,” the voices said. “The Abyss is not just darkness. It is the friction of the void. It is the heat of the end.”Drogo gritted his teeth. He didn't use the [Entropy Flame]. He didn't use a spell. He willed his Abyssal Core to rotate.Inside his chest, the violet engine of his power began to spin. Faster. Faster. Faster.The heat started to rise. It wasn't the heat of a fire. It was a "Dark Heat."
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