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Chapter 16: Prison Break
The moment the suppression field dropped, the Void Keep transformed from prison to battlefield.Prisoners who hadn't moved in years suddenly exploded into action.Darius Korr in cell 47-B blasted through his transparent walls with a technique that turned his fists into living lightning. Each punch left scorch marks in reality itself.Professor Yuna Seo didn't attack. She creates, summoning barriers of crystallized knowledge around groups of weaker prisoners. Protecting them from the chaos while they oriented themselves.Marcus Chen, the former Enforcer, moved with military precision. Disarming guards and redistributing their weapons to other escapees. Turning rabble into an organized force in seconds.The Enforcers tried to respond. But they were overwhelmed. These weren't random criminals. These were some of the most powerful cultivators the Council ever captured. Held at the edge of death for decades. And now suddenly free.It was a massacre.And it was beautiful.~~~Kaelen absorbe
Chapter 15: Faceless Sage Bargain
Kaelen stared upward through the transparent walls of his cell. Trying to locate the Faceless Sage's cell in the tiers above.The voice in his mind was different from the other prisoners. Not transmitted through cultivated telepathy. But something more fundamental. It was like the Sage was speaking directly into the core of his being."You wonder how I reach you." The Sage's thoughts carried amusement. "The Council believes their cells block all technique. They are correct. But I do not use technique. I use something older. The language that existed before cultivation. Before even the Ley Veins themselves.""What are you?" Kaelen projected mentally."A question I have asked myself for three centuries. Once, I was human. A scholar seeking enlightenment. Then I became something else. The Council calls me monster. I prefer 'evolved.'"The other prisoners' thoughts flooded in."Don't trust him." Darius warned. "The Sage is insane. He's been down here so long his mind fractured...""He kil
Chapter 14: The Inquisition
They didn't take Kaelen to a torture chamber. Nothing so crude.Instead, they led him to a room that was somehow worse. Sterile. White. Filled with devices that hummed with barely restrained power. It reminded Kaelen of the university's medical wing. But everything here was designed not to heal. But to analyze.The three Elders arranged themselves in a triangle around him. Kaelen was strapped to a chair in the center. Not with chains. But with bands of solidified air that conformed to his body. Impossible to break.Elder Cassius circled him like a predator assessing prey. Up close, their beauty was unsettling. Too perfect. Like a sculpture rather than a person. "Do you know what we are, Kaelen?""The people who murdered my mother."The jovial grandmother, Elder Yumei, laughed. It was a warm, grandmotherly sound that made Kaelen's skin crawl. "Oh, he has spirit! I like this one, Cassius. Can we keep him?""The Voidborn is not a pet, Yumei." The tall, masked Elder, Arcturus, spoke with
Chapter 13: The Black Tower
Kaelen lost track of time in the darkness.The black bag over his head was heavy. Made of some material that didn't just block light. It absorbed sound. Dampening everything to a muffled whisper. He could feel movement. The sensation of being transported. But he couldn't tell if it was by vehicle. By flight. Or by some cultivation technique he didn't understand.His wrists ached where the steel cuffs bit into skin.Without the suppression runes, they couldn't seal his powers. But they also couldn't stop his body from trying to heal the constant friction wounds. Which meant the cuffs kept cutting through fresh tissue. Creating an endless cycle of minor damage.Blood trickled down his palms. Warm and sticky.He tried to focus on that sensation. Using the pain to keep himself grounded. It was a trick Shen taught him during meditation. "Pain is data. It tells you that you're alive. That you're present. Never fear pain. Fear numbness."Someone yanked the bag off his head.The brightness wa
Chapter 12: The Edge Of Nothing
Kaelen was drowning in voices.Not metaphorically. Actually drowning. His consciousness submerged in a sea of corrupted memories. Each one belonging to a person or cultivator absorbed by Hollows. They crashed over him in waves.A mother trying to shield her child. Both consumed.A cultivator watching his entire sect fall.A teenager in the wrong place at the wrong time.A Council Elder who thought herself untouchable. Proven fatally wrong.Each memory came with emotions. Terror. Despair. Rage. Resignation. And underneath them all, threading through like a toxin, was the seductive whisper of Hollow Sickness.Let go. Stop fighting. It hurts less if you just... stop.Kaelen's sense of self was fragmenting. He couldn't remember his name. Couldn't remember why he was fighting. Couldn't remember what he was supposed to protect.But then.A hand. Small. Warm. Pressing against his cheek. And a voice cutting through the chaos."KAELEN!"~~~In the physical world, Lira had reached him.She was
Chapter 11: Giants Falls
When something that weighs several tons moves at highway speeds, the results are catastrophic.The Guardian covered the hundred-foot distance in less than three seconds. Kaelen barely had time to register its movement before it was there. Massive fist, formed from concrete and rebar wrapped in gray flesh, descending toward them like a falling building.They scattered.Shen flowed left. Moving with liquid grace. Lira exploded right in a geyser of water propulsion. Kaelen threw himself forward, under the strike. Rolling across asphalt that cracked like thunder as the Guardian's fist impacted where he'd been standing a heartbeat ago.The shockwave alone lifted Kaelen off his feet and sent him tumbling.He crashed into an overturned car. Breath knocked from his lungs. Ribs screaming in protest. Through watering eyes, he watched the Guardian extract its fist from the crater it created. A hole six feet deep in reinforced city street."New plan." Kaelen gasped. "Don't get hit."Lira was alre
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