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The chamber shifted with a grinding rumble that vibrated up through Andrew’s ankles, shaking loose dust from an unseen ceiling and casting the entire team into a wavering haze of deep violet light. The air thickened immediately—denser, heavier, saturating their lungs with a coldness that carried the sharp metallic taste of something ancient and cruel waking from a long slumber. Rayan stepped back reflexively, then hissed as the ground beneath him pulsed like a heartbeat.Jiro raised his blades. “Everyone stay alert. The trial is coming.”But Andrew already felt it.A whisper that wasn’t sound but instinct scraping across the inside of his skull, dragging the remnants of the Sapphire within him closer to the surface. The Gate was not asking for strength. It was demanding it—like a mouth widening hungrily, searching for the weakest soul to devour.Then the floor split.A perfect circle carved itself around Rayan with a burst of violet fire, isolating him in a ring of sigils that glowed
4-28
Andrew drifted in a darkness so absolute it felt thick and liquid, clinging to his thoughts like ink seeping into the cracks of an already fractured mind. There was no sound, no ground, no sensation except the distant echo of a fading heartbeat—his own, dissolving slowly into the void surrounding him. He tried to inhale, but the darkness pressed against his lungs like invisible weights, suffocating and relentless in its silent insistence.He could not tell if minutes, hours, or an eternity passed before a thin spark of cold blue light flickered within the abyss, pulsing once with a weakened rhythm that barely registered as life. The light grew slightly, then dimmed again, as if struggling to decide whether to continue existing or finally collapse into nothingness.Another heartbeat.Barely.Andrew tried to speak, but his voice failed, collapsing into silence that swallowed even the attempt. He reached toward the flickering light, but his arm refused to move, the darkness clinging arou
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The Gate reassembled itself with a violent shudder, twisting the labyrinth into a colossal arena made of spiraling obsidian platforms suspended above a void so deep it swallowed even the faintest echo of sound, while arcs of pale golden lightning crackled across the distant walls like veins pulsing within some cosmic organism. The heirs materialized at separate points around the structure, each pulled by invisible force into positions arranged with surgical precision by the Gate’s unseen will.Andrew appeared on the lowest platform, clutching his chest as the Sapphire convulsed inside him like a dying star struggling desperately to stay lit against a collapsing horizon. His breath came in short, ragged bursts, yet his eyes immediately scanned the arena for the others because he feared more for them than he ever did for himself.Noir emerged across from him on a separate platform, the Phoenix fire swirling violently around his shoulders as the shadow of Solus trembled faintly behind hi
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The Gate shifted again, ripping away the shattered echoes of Andrew’s past and reforming itself into a labyrinth of twisting hallways made of shimmering bone-light that pulsed like a thousand dying stars trapped under glass. Each corridor reflected pale gold and eerie emerald hues, weaving together like veins of crystallized memory and fractal visions that bent unpredictably with Sahara’s every breath.Sahara stumbled forward, her hands trembling violently, gripping Yuki’s arm tightly enough to leave faint bruises as the Emerald Shadow inside her thrashed like a beast caught in a too-small cage. Her blind eyes glowed in waves—now emerald, now white, now streaked with shades no human tongue had words to describe. Every step she took left trails of shimmering energy that flickered and dissolved, as though time itself rejected her presence.Yuki steadied her desperately, drawing protective sigils around them while her own body shook under the Gate’s oppressive psychological pressure. “Sa
4-25
Andrew hit the ground inside the next chamber with a force that nearly knocked the breath from his lungs, though the surface beneath him felt disturbingly soft, almost like falling onto layers of cold moss mixed with skin. The darkness around him thinned just enough to reveal a vast expanse shaped like a cathedral made of bone and fractured glass, each shimmering shard reflecting different moments of his life like scattered pieces of stolen time.He pushed himself upright slowly, every muscle trembling from the combined weight of Sapphire pain and the Gate’s crushing psychological pressure. His heartbeat thudded irregularly, echoing inside his ribcage like a dying drum desperately trying to keep tempo with a melody that no longer existed.The chamber felt colder than the previous two—colder in a way that reached into the marrow of his bones. This was not a test of strength or body. This was a test of truth. A test of identity. A test of the memory he had spent most of his life trying
4-24
Andrew stepped into the next chamber, his breaths ragged and shallow as the corridor behind him sealed like a closing wound, leaving him surrounded by darkness so complete it swallowed the faint glow of the Sapphire inside his chest. The air felt cold and damp, as though the Gate’s walls were exhaling frost directly against his neck, and the silence pressed against his ears like thick, suffocating cotton.The ground beneath him was no longer fleshy or pulsating like the Gate of Flesh. Instead, it felt like smooth obsidian, polished to mirror quality but somehow absorbing light rather than reflecting it. The sensation of walking on shadow made his skin crawl with instinctive unease.Jiro’s voice reached him first, echoing faintly. “Andrew? Can you hear me? The Gate separated us again.”Andrew turned toward the sound, relief striking through him. “I’m here! Are the others safe?”Jiro appeared from the gloom, but his form flickered like an unstable projection. “We’re alive, but scattered
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