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Chapter 182
The world could not hold the sound anymore. The sky above cracked open. The Spire, once tall and proud, had broken apart. Pieces of black stone floated in the air like ash. Strange melodies drifted through the air, soft and haunting. There was no wind. No gravity. Only rhythm. Time and space felt wrong.Two figures stood on a floating piece of broken stone. It spun slowly in the strange sky. One of them was Oliver Beckett. He looked tired but strong. His eyes burned like fire. The Forbidden Verse still lived inside him. Flames danced around his heart, and shadows crawled under his skin.Across from him stood Arcanon Veres. He didn’t look human. His body was made of glowing lines and silver shapes. He looked like he was built by music itself. He held a staff that hummed with power. He was a servant of order, a protector of the old system.They said nothing at first. Then, the air pulsed. A message echoed from the system:Duel Initiated: Divine TierStatus: Reality Instability Rising
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The Spire didn’t appear on any map. No one spoke of it. No one dared. It rose from the broken earth like a scream turned into stone, tall, black, and twisted. Its tower spiraled like a corkscrew, pointing straight at the sky’s deepest crack. Around it, the world shimmered. Colors bent. The air buzzed. Even the wind felt wrong, like it blew in reverse.Oliver Vale stood at the base of the Spire. His boots crunched on dry, cracked soil. Mina stood beside him, her hands glowing faintly with harmonic energy. Brael stood on her other side, gripping his halberd tightly. They had walked miles to get here, through ruined cities, dead zones, and system-warped wastelands.Now, they stood in front of the final place. And it was waiting.System NoticeLocation: The Dissonant SpireStatus: Temporal Instability. Linear Progression SuspendedWarning: Sound, Memory, and Form May Not Match IntentBrael frowned. He looked up at the twisting tower. “I don’t like this,” he said. His voice was low, tens
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The sun was red and low in the sky, almost gone. It looked sick, like it was bleeding into the clouds. The light it cast stretched long across the broken ground behind them.Oliver collapsed near the Vault’s ruined entrance, his legs finally giving out. He fell hard onto his hands and knees. Ash drifted from his shoulders like dust shaken from old bones.His breath came in ragged, static-filled gasps. It was like trying to breathe through wires. His head throbbed, eyes flickering with strange red symbols only he could see.System Alert: Echo Devourer, ACTIVE Hunger: [73%] Self-Regulation: WEAKENED Potential Targets Detected: 3Oliver blinked and looked up. Three shapes stood in front of him. One was Mina, face pale and worried. The second was Brael, blood running down his arm. The third was… something else.A crawling figure, broken and twisted, was dragging itself out from the Vault’s shattered door. It wasn’t human. It was an echo, a failed remnant of some player long gone.And
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The Vault wasn’t hidden. It dared to be seen. Massive black pillars jutted from the red soil like broken teeth. Dark energy spiraled up into the cracked sky, forming a cyclone of screaming whispers.At the center, an obsidian gate pulsed, chained shut with sigils that looked like they bled sound. “Devourants,” Brael said, raising his halberd. “Guardians bred to feed on chords.”Four of them emerged, hulking, armor-bound monsters with glowing mouths where eyes should be. They moved on all fours, their movements disturbingly smooth.Oliver stepped forward.System Alert: Divine Combat Zone InitiatedEnemies: Devourant Guardians (Tier 3.5)Zone Modifier: Chord Suppression -25% / Devour +15%Strategy: Overwhelm with Burst Phase DamageHe didn’t wait. With a yell, he activated both his Flamebound Key and Breaker’s Verse.Blue fire and jagged red light collided, spiraling around his blade. He surged forward, leaping straight into the chest of the first Devourant. His blade sunk deep, but t
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The camp cheered as soon as they saw Mina walking toward them. Her boots were muddy and stained with dried blood. Her coat was torn at the shoulder. Her hair stuck to her sweaty face. But she was smiling. It was a small, tired smile, but it was real. The first real smile the camp had seen in days.Behind her came Oliver. He walked slower, more careful, as if he could still feel danger clinging to his skin. Beneath his cloak, a strange warmth pulsed quietly in his chest.He didn’t carry a weapon or a treasure. But something was glowing inside him.System Update: You have returned to a Safe ZoneBuff Gained: Minor Harmony RegenerationStatus Active: Divine Chord (1/4)Brael was the first to run up to them. “You really did it,” Brael said, panting. “You found the first Key?”Oliver nodded. He didn’t say much. He didn’t need to. “One down,” he said softly. “Three more to go.”That night, the camp lit a few fires. Some people sang old songs, though not too loudly. Others just sat and star
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The riddle echoed in Oliver’s mind long after the Embercantatrix’s voice faded.“Four keys unlock the Staff Divine. One burns. One binds. One breaks. One blinds. When all are played in perfect time, The world shall rise… or fall in rhyme.”Oliver sat in the heart of the base camp’s archive tent. A flickering lantern cast shadows across warped maps and tattered scrolls. Mina leaned against the center pole, arms crossed, brow furrowed.They weren’t alone. Lorekeeper Brael, a bearded man with eyes the color of oxidized copper, ran a crooked finger across a stained parchment.“Burning. Binding. Breaking. Blinding.” He tapped the map. “The old monasteries. Each one guarded a Divine echo, artifacts shaped by the Primordial Choir.”Oliver leaned forward. “You think this is real?”Brael nodded. “Ashspire Monastery was said to house the Flamebound Key. The monks called it the Ember Chord. A divine thread strung through the throat of fire itself.”Mina frowned. “It’s in the Echo Crater, right?”
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