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Chapter 291
Ash drifted in the wind. The air was heavy, still trembling from the Hollow’s destruction. Rebels stood frozen, their blades lowered, their eyes fixed on Oliver with fear and awe.He stood in the center of the plain, his sword still glowing faintly with silver and gold. His chest heaved with each breath. His body screamed with exhaustion, but the silence inside him was worth it. No whisper. No claws. The Hollow was gone.Mara clung to his arm, her face streaked with blood and dust. She was shaking, but her voice was steady. “You did it.”Oliver’s crimson eyes softened as he looked at her. “We did it.”But even as the words left his lips, something stirred in the distance. The air grew colder.At first, it was just a ripple, a tremor that ran through the cracked earth. Then the sky dimmed, clouds rolling like smoke. The rebels shifted uneasily, their whispers sharp in the silence. “What’s that? Is it not over? “Don’t tell me, another monster.”Oliver gripped his sword tighter, his e
Chapter 290
The battlefield trembled, golden fissures splitting wider, shadowfire boiling in the cracks. Above it all, Elias floated in a storm of light and dark, his small body blazing with power not meant for him.Mara shielded her eyes with a trembling arm, tears streaming down her face. “Elias! Please, come back!”Oliver staggered forward, his sword dragging sparks against the stone. His crimson eyes locked on the boy, torn between dread and desperate hope. His chest heaved, every breath thick with ash and blood.The Hollow hissed inside him, its laughter rattling his skull. “Look at him. Look at what your weakness made him. A puppet. A vessel. My herald. Soon my chains will break, and I will consume you all.”Oliver’s claws curled against his palms until blood ran. His teeth clenched, rage boiling in his chest. “No. Not anymore.”He lifted his sword, shadowfire blazing, and drove it into the ground. The impact cracked the plain, sparks scattering, and his roar split the storm. “ENOUGH!”The
Chapter 289
The plain shook as if the earth itself could no longer bear the strain. Golden cracks split the ground in jagged lines, light spilling upward like molten fire. Ash whirled in spirals, drawn toward Elias as though he were the center of a storm. Mara held him tighter, though the heat of the glow burned her skin raw. Her teeth clenched against the pain, but she didn’t loosen her grip. “You’re still here,” she whispered fiercely into his hair. “I don’t care what words you speak. I don’t care what light burns in you. You’re still Elias, and I’m not letting you go.”The boy shuddered in her arms. His golden eyes flicked toward her, for a heartbeat softer, almost familiar. Then the light flared again, harsh and wild. “The chains… will shatter,” his voice echoed, layered and vast.Mara’s tears spilled fresh. “Then I’ll chain you myself if I have to. But I won’t lose you.”Oliver staggered closer, his sword blazing dark in his grip, his crimson eyes wide with grief and desperation. His ches
Chapter 288
The battlefield was hushed, as if the world itself held its breath. Ash drifted on the wind, glowing faintly with the last embers of shadowfire. Broken stone crackled under the weight of silence. And in the middle of the ruins, Mara clutched Elias in her bloodied arms, her eyes wide with tears and disbelief.The boy’s eyes were open, but they were not the same eyes. Gold burned in them, too bright, too sharp. The light spilled out like fire caught behind glass, flickering against Mara’s face. She brushed his hair back with a trembling hand, her voice breaking. “Elias? It’s me. It’s Mara. Do you hear me?”The boy’s lips moved. His voice was quiet, but it carried through the silence. “The chains… will shatter.”The sound was his, but layered with something deeper. Something vast. Mara’s chest clenched. She forced herself to smile through her tears, rocking him gently. “You’re still here. I know you are.”Oliver stood a few steps away, frozen. His sword hung loose at his side, crimson
Chapter 287
The battlefield had turned into a storm of fear. Rebels shouted, blades clashed in sparks, voices fractured, half crying for Garrick, half crying for Oliver. But all of it fell quiet the moment Elias’s whisper broke the air again. “Chains…”The boy’s lips barely moved, but the sound carried like thunder. Golden threads flickered faintly over his chest, curling around his ribs before fading.Mara’s arms tightened around him, her eyes wide. “Elias… what chains? What are you saying?”Her voice cracked with desperate hope. Oliver stared, frozen, his crimson eyes wide. His chest heaved, his sword hanging loose in his hand.He wanted to believe the boy was back. He wanted to believe the whisper was his. But the word gnawed at him, sinking deep. “Chains.”The same word that had bound the Hollow. Inside his mind, the dark hissed and rattled. “Yes… chains. My prison. He is nothing more than the echo of my chains. He is gone, and what you see is only me bleeding through him.”Oliver clutched hi
Chapter 286
The battlefield had fallen silent again, but the silence was not peace. It was a silence born of fear, of eyes wide and breaths held. Every rebel, every survivor, stared at the small body in Mara’s arms. Elias. For minutes he had been still, gone, his threads burned out in his sacrifice. But now, his chest had moved. Once. Twice, and faintly, barely visible, a golden shimmer flickered along his small hand.Mara’s lips parted, her breath caught in her throat. Tears streaked her dirt-stained cheeks as she whispered, “Elias?”She shook him gently, her voice trembling. “Come back. Please… come back.”Oliver’s crimson eyes locked on the faint glow. His chest heaved, his heart hammering as though it would break through his ribs.It wasn’t possible. The boy had given everything. Oliver had felt him dissolve inside the void, had watched him vanish into chains of light, but now, he moved.Oliver stumbled closer, dropping to his knees in front of Mara. His clawed hand trembled as he reached o
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