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Chapter 121 — “Labyrinth of Light”
Author: Freezy-Grip
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The instant Damon’s body crossed the threshold of the pulse, the world ceased to exist.

Not physically, not really. There was still ground beneath him, air around him but every measure of reality had been replaced by something alive.

Light twisted like liquid, forming corridors that bent at impossible angles. Floors flowed like waves, ceilings rippled like molten glass, and shadows moved of their own volition.

Damon stumbled forward, chest tight, heart thundering. Every pulse of the Eye reverberated inside him, syncing with his own heartbeat. It wasn’t just feeling it was communication, subtle yet overwhelming.“Welcome.”

The voice was everywhere and nowhere, a layering of Adrian and Vivienne, yet distinctly not them. Damon froze.

“Adrian? Vivienne?” His voice sounded foreign in his own ears, stretched and multiplied by the pulse.

“Not entirely. We are fragments. We are echoes. We are part of it now.”

The corridors shifted again. The walls seemed to breathe, contracting and expanding t
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