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CHAPTER 68: THE IRON LEGION
The darkness shifted.Ronan blinked. Those weren’t shadows they moved. Fast.“Down!” he yelled.They dropped. A blade tore the air right above Kael’s head, slammed the wall so hard it sent sparks everywhere.What stepped out wasn’t human.It was armor massive, almost seven feet tall, every inch covered in black iron plates. Bolts, plates, not a single scrap of skin. In the visor, two red lights flickered exactly where eyes should be. Its sword was a slab of metal, more like a door than a weapon.“The Iron Sentinels,” Vaelin whispered. “Torvan’s guardians. I always thought they were just stories.”“They’re not,” said Ronan, already drawing his sword.The Sentinel swung that blade. Ronan twisted aside, rolled, and stabbed for its knee joint. Steel screeched. The thing staggered…but it didn’t go down.“They don’t have flesh!” Silas shouted. “No bones, no joints to break! They run on Torvan’s magic!”Kael threw a knife at the visor. Pointless the blade clinked off. Darius lowered his shou
CHAPTER 67: THE FORGOTTEN ROAD
They slipped out of the Academy at dawn.For the first time in ages, nobody was after them.Ronan noticed it right away, but the calm didn’t sit right. He kept glancing back, half-expecting to hear boots on stone, a flash of magic, or Vane’s icy voice behind him. All he got was silence, the soft scuff of shoes on dirt, and the cool, empty breeze.“Would you quit that?” Kael grumbled from behind.“Quit what?”“You’re looking behind us every five seconds. You’re making my skin crawl.”Ronan tried to loosen up. “Sorry.”They went east, mountains ahead. Vaelin took point, a dog-eared map in her grip. The trail barely deserved the name more like something deer had worn down over decades—but that was the point. The main roads were crawling with Church patrols.The Hollow walked beside Mira…it was Elara’s turn today. You could always tell when it was her; she moved lighter, full of restless energy, and refused any help.“I can walk,” she’d told them that morning, adamant. “I’ve been stuck in
CHAPTER 66: TWO SOULS
The Hollow woke up with a scream. But not just one scream.Two voices. Tangled together.Ronan rushed in, sword at the ready. Mira was already by the bed, holding the Hollow down. Lyra and Silas came right behind him.The Hollow was thrashing on the cot, body twisting, eyes snapping open and shut. Their cries twisted, echoed: one voice a boy, the other a girl fighting each other for a shot at the surface.“Get out of my head!”“You’re hurting her!”Those two voices, climbing over each other. One throat, two desperate minds.“Hold them down!” Mira yelled.Ronan dropped his blade and gripped the Hollow’s legs. Kael took their arms. Black veins crawled down the Hollow’s neck, almost pulsing.“Let go!”“Please, stop!”And then total stillness.No one moved. Not even a breath.The Hollow’s eyes opened. Brown, sharp, clear. Not vacant or lost, but awake. Alert.She glanced at Ronan, then at Mira. She tried her voice…raspy, shaky, but steady.“Where is he?” she asked.Ronan blinked. “Who?”“
CHAPTER 65: THE ASHES OF THE TOWER
The white light sputtered out.Just like that, the tower was only a tower again.Ronan stood over the wrecked altar, chest still heaving. Dust and something darker clung to the edge of his rusted sword. Blown-out candles smoked nearby. The priests lay scattered on the floor, slowly shifting back to themselves as the Sixth's twisted magic faded.“Is it over?” Kael asked, wiping blood from a cut above his brow. “Did we get him?”Ronan shook his head. “He ran.”Kael spat. “Of course. Coward.”On the altar, the Hollow’s body was still. The sickly white glow had vanished. Their breathing sounded steady, and Mira was already checking their pulse.“They’re okay,” she said, relief thick in her voice. “The ritual didn’t work.”Lyra watched from the doorway and whispered, “Thank the gods.”Ronan met her eyes, a little bitter. “What’s left of them, anyway.”No time to linger.The Academy was stirring awake, and chaos was spreading like wildfire. Wards flickered, barely holding, like a lantern gu
CHAPTER 64:THE UNSEEN ENEMY
Nobody had time for celebrations. All that mattered now was running.They stepped out of the Grand Sanctum, and everything changed. Torches in the halls sputtered out, the usual floating lights disappeared, and darkness swallowed the corridors. Somewhere deep within the stone walls, a grinding sound echoed it felt like the whole Academy was shuddering in pain.Ronan froze, sword halfway out. Kael glanced around. “What’s happening?” Silas, blindfolded as always, tilted his head and listened. “The Sixth,” he whispered. “Cardinal Vane wasn’t just escaping he’s triggered something.” Vaelin’s voice was barely audible. “The wards. Old magic tied to the stones themselves. If the Sixth corrupts them…” Ronan finished for her, “The Academy turns into a trap.”They quickened their pace, heading for the Forbidden Division. The air got colder. Shadows stretched after them. Ronan kept spotting something at the edge of his vision a dark flicker, white robes but when he turned, nothing.“They’re
CHAPTER 63: THE HIGH COUNCIL
The High Council of the Order of the Scales gathered in the Grand Sanctum. It wasn’t a place that welcomed outsiders or heretics, for that matter.Ronan waited in the antechamber, listening as muffled voices drifted through the heavy oak doors. Judges, arbiters the most powerful in the kingdom all crammed in one room, and all of them were there to decide if he’d live or die.Vaelin stood beside him, robes perfect, silver scale shining, not a single crease out of place. She’d prepared all night. Wrote her petition. Collected evidence. Practiced her arguments over and over until she could’ve recited them in her sleep.“You’re nervous,” Vaelin said quietly.“I’m fine.”“You’re counting your steps again.”Ronan glanced down, caught himself drumming his fingers against his thigh. He stopped. “I’m fine,” he insisted.The doors swung open.Inside, the Grand Sanctum echoed with silence a massive circular space, rows and rows of arbiters in grey robes rising high above the stone floor. The acc
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