Chapter 259
Author: Yeshua Yin
last update2025-08-29 23:40:38

The cavern smelled like smoke and blood. The stench clung to every stone, thick and heavy, like the whole place had been burned alive.

Ash swirled in the air, floating down slowly, covering the ground in a gray carpet. The Devourer was gone.

Its massive body had fallen apart into dust, melting into the floor until nothing was left. No flesh.

No bones. Only claw marks carved deep into the walls, broken stones shattered across the ground, and a silence that felt too heavy, too wrong.

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