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Chapter 131: The Crystal Appears
They approached cautiously, boots crunching on frost-strewn rubble. At the heart of the crater lay a crystal, roughly humanoid in shape but clearly a fragment of something far greater. Its surface shimmered, reflecting not only the light of the dying sun but the currents of Aether that Kael carried within him. Kael instinctively knelt. The crystal’s pulse quickened, as though it recognized him. The Blade of Dawn hummed, resonating in a low, thrumming tone that mirrored the crystal’s own heartbeat. Eryn stepped forward, her eyes wide. “Kael… it’s reacting to you.” Her voice carried awe and fear. “I can feel it… like it’s alive.” Lyra raised her staff defensively. “It could be a trap. Or a beacon. The Starbound may have sent it — or worse, the rift itself could have forged it.” Kael’s hand hovered above the crystal, hesitating. His instincts screamed caution, yet something within him — the Blade of Dawn, the residual essence of Solien — urged him closer. When his fingers brushed the
Chapter 130: The Assault
The Council’s forces surged. Kael, Blade of Dawn ablaze, charged the creature, slashing through frost and crystal with each swing. The leviathan’s claws came down like falling towers, and the ground cracked beneath every impact. Lyra’s wards protected nearby mages from the destructive shockwaves, but even her magic trembled under the rift’s raw power. Eryn stepped onto a fractured rooftop, hands raised, her body glowing with a constellation of Aetherfire. She began murmuring words she didn’t fully understand — fragments of Starbound language, incomprehensible but effective. Streams of energy shot from her palms into the rift, wrapping around the leviathan like invisible chains. Its roars became more frantic, but the creature could not fully break free. Kael leapt high, striking the leviathan in a precise arc. The Blade of Dawn connected with a crystalline spike that seemed to extend from the rift itself. There was a flash, a scream of Aether, and the ground trembled violently. The
Chapter 129: The Shattered North
The winds of the North whipped across the snow-blanketed peaks, slicing through the layered cloaks of the Rift Council’s expedition. Eldoria’s northernmost provinces had long been desolate, cold lands where human settlements clung to life against the endless frost. But now, reports had reached Kael that the city of Frosthold — once a thriving hub of trade and arcane scholarship — had vanished beneath a cascade of rift energy. Entire blocks of stone and ice were missing, leaving jagged craters glowing faintly with violet light. Kael rode at the forefront, the Blade of Dawn strapped across his back. Its hilt shimmered faintly with residual Aether, a reminder that he alone among the Council bore the marks of both corruption and divine inheritance. Beside him, Lyra guided the council’s mages, her staff emanating a protective aura that kept the frost and rift energy from burning their flesh. “Kael,” Lyra’s voice cut across the gale, tight with worry, “the energy readings are off the char
Chapter 128: The Council
The council chamber had been rebuilt from the remnants of the Arcane Spire’s lower halls — a circular amphitheater of obsidian and crystal, its floor etched with wards that glimmered faintly with protective Aether. One by one, representatives from every kingdom filed in, each bringing with them not only manpower, but the accumulated magical knowledge of their realms. There were the Pyromancers of Fialar, their robes scorched with ceremonial fire-resistant sigils. There were the Seafarers of Lhorne, whose elemental waters still shimmered in miniature streams along their staffs. Even the Nomads of Kareth, whose people had shunned magic for centuries, brought relics imbued with dormant Aether, relics capable of amplifying Eryn’s abilities if wielded correctly. Kael took his place at the center, the Blade of Dawn lying dormant at his feet, a reminder that he was no longer merely a mage, but the inheritor of a legacy steeped in divine conflict. “This,” he said, gesturing to the represent
Chapter 127: The First Step
They moved to the High Spire — a place constructed atop the oldest ley line in Eldoria. The rifts above seemed to bend toward it, drawn by its latent energy. Kael placed his hands on the stone platform, letting his Aether bleed outward. The ground trembled. The sky above twisted. Colors no human eyes had names for danced across the firmament. Eryn followed, her trembling fingers reaching toward the threads of the rift. Lira guided her, voice steady. “Focus. The world needs your song. Nothing more. Nothing less.” And then it happened. A shockwave of pure rift energy exploded outward. Kael felt his body warp, every sinew stretched by power beyond comprehension. Yet somewhere beneath the chaos, a fragile tether formed — a connection between the Starbound, the Marked One, and the rift itself. Eryn screamed, her voice now perfectly in sync with the first harmonic of the Starbound song. The rift flickered, pulsed, and stabilized — if only temporarily. Kael fell to his knees, sweat and
Chapter 126: The Confrontation in the Council Chamber
He entered the Council Chamber to face the Mage Council — though the term felt meaningless now. The doors quivered on their hinges, dust and stone raining down, as if the building itself feared what Kael had unleashed. Lira was already there, her staff raised, a protective circle around Eryn, who watched the rifts with a mixture of awe and terror. “Kael,” Matriarch Isolde’s voice trembled, though her composure remained ironclad, “what have you done? The Seal… it was there for a reason!” Kael did not flinch. “I didn’t break it. I… transcended it. My ascension, the absorption of the Aetherheart, it resonated through the boundaries of the realms. I didn’t choose this, but now that it’s done, the Seal is gone.” Whispers spread like wildfire. Scholars, mages, and guards alike craned their necks, fear etched into their faces. Some muttered of doom; others, heresy. The knowledge that one man’s power could unravel the cosmos shook the Council’s authority. “Transcended?” one young mage ask
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