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Chapter 149 – Into the Maw of the Unknown
The moment Collins Lutherchris stepped forward, the world shifted.Not violently.Not with the roar of collapsing earth or the blaze of uncontrolled flames.But with a quiet, deliberate certainty—as though the forest itself had been waiting for this single decision.A soft thrum vibrated under his boots. The air thickened, pressing against his skin like warm breath. The dim green glow that had guided him through the woods brightened, swirling into a faint spiraling path beneath the canopy.Collins inhaled.The scent of wet bark and old earth was suddenly overpowered by something stranger—burning embers, faint but unmistakable.His flame.Or… something like it.He clenched his fists.“Show yourself,” he murmured, voice low, controlled.A whisper swept through the branches.Not the wind.Not an animal.Not a monster.A presence.Then—A figure stepped out from between two towering trees, emerging with an unnatural grace.A cloaked silhouette, tall, draped in layers of dark fabric that
CHAPTER 148 – The Stranger in the Trees2
The forest remained death-silent.Not the natural silence Collins Lutherchris had grown used to—but the type that curled around his skin like cold smoke. The air felt tighter, heavier… as if reality itself was holding its breath.He didn’t move—not yet.Only his flame-blue eyes shifted, following the dark between the trees. The rustling had stopped, but the presence was still there. Watching. Waiting.“Show yourself,” Collins said quietly.The words did not echo. They simply vanished into the thick air.For a moment, nothing happened.Then a whisper drifted through the leaves.“You’re finally awake.”Collins stiffened.It wasn’t a voice carried by wind or spoken by a moving tongue. It was a voice that slid directly into his mind—cold, ancient, and layered with something that felt like flames trapped in ice.His instincts flared. Earth energy rolled under his feet. Fire pulsed in his palms. Wind curled around his shoulders like invisible wings. Water hummed like a river behind his hear
CHAPTER 147 — The Thing in the Trees
The forest went completely still.Even the wind, which moments ago brushed gently through the branches, now felt trapped—held back by a presence that did not belong to the living world.Collins Lutherchris lowered his stance, fingers tightening around the faint ember of power resting within him. His heartbeat steadied, but every instinct screamed at him:Something was here. Something ancient. Something wrong.“Show yourself,” he murmured.The shadows didn’t move.But the silence did.A cold, crawling hush slipped through the forest, coiling around his ankles like mist. The leaves above trembled again—slow, deliberate, mocking. Collins’ eyes narrowed.Not an animal.Not a beast.Not a Spirit Walker either.This was something older.A presence brushed against his mind, not speaking, but probing—testing the boundaries of his consciousness, as though searching for cracks in his mental defenses.Collins snapped his will forward, forcing a spark of fire through his veins. The mental pressur
CHAPTER 146— The Footsteps in the Dark —
The night pressed tightly around Collins Lutherchris as he held his breath. The forest had gone too quiet—far too quiet. The rustling behind him had stopped, but the feeling of being watched only grew sharper, like invisible fingers crawling slowly up his spine.He didn’t turn immediately. Instead, he let his senses expand, just as Elder Thandor had taught him.Earth… listen.Wind… feel.Fire… awaken.Water… flow.Four elements pulsed inside him, slow and steady, responding to his tension.The trees whispered again.This time the sound came from his left.Then his right.Then behind him again.It wasn’t the wind.It wasn’t an animal.It was intentional. Something—or someone—was circling him.Collins finally exhaled and spoke into the darkness.“Step out. I know you’re there.”No reply.But the darkness moved.A shadow detached itself from a tree trunk, sliding forward like living smoke. Collins’ flames flickered to life around his fists, small but ready.The shadow stopped.Then—slowl
CHAPTER 145 — The Silent Watcher
The forest fell into a stillness so deep it felt unnatural.Collins Luther Chris froze mid-step, every sense in his body tightening like a drawn bowstring. The rustling behind him stopped instantly—too instantly. No creature halted movement with such precision.He slowly turned, flames faintly shimmering beneath his skin, ready to burst free.Nothing.Only darkness and the towering silhouettes of ancient trees.But he felt it.A presence. Heavy. Focused. Intelligent.The kind that didn’t simply watch…It measured.Collins didn’t move. The silence pressed against him like a weight.“I know you’re there,” he said calmly, though a shiver crawled beneath his skin.His voice echoed faintly between the trees.For a moment, nothing changed.Then—A low, almost inaudible hum rippled through the air, like a breath exhaled from the forest itself.The shadows between two trees thickened, gathering like a pool of ink.Collins instinctively stepped back, flames flickering along his forearm.A figu
Chapter 144_The Shadow Behind the Light
The ground trembled long before Collins realized the danger wasn’t coming from the sky…but from below.A harsh vibration rippled across the clearing like an angry heartbeat. Loose stones danced in frantic patterns, the trees groaned as if something ancient pushed against their roots, and the very air shivered with cold dread.Collins tightened his grip on the glowing Fragment of the Fourfold Seal.Lyra stepped closer. “This isn’t natural earth movement. Something is forcing the ground to open.”Before Collins could answer, the soil cracked. A long jagged line tore through the clearing, splitting the center with a violent roar. A hot wind surged upward from the fracture—carrying the smell of burning metal and old magic.A hand—shadow-black and clawed—shot up from the opening.Collins immediately activated the Earth Pulse, shielding Lyra and Arix with a stone wall as the creature heaved itself out of the crevice.It wasn’t fully physical.It wasn’t fully shadow either.It was something
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