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CHAPTER FORTY FIVE: THE UNCHAINED SHADE
Author: Rukky
last update2025-08-26 00:16:30

The ruins lay in ruinous silence, but only for a heartbeat. Then it came. From the crack in the gate poured a shadow thicker than night, writhing like smoke yet heavy as molten steel. The pressure of it bent the air, smothering even Kael’s flames for a moment.

Out of the shifting darkness crawled a form not fully flesh, not fully spirit, a thing half-born from the seal itself.

Its body was human shaped, but stretched too tall, its limbs too long. Where its heart should have been was a gaping void glowing faintly with embers. Chains still clung to its shoulders, dragging sparks as they scraped across the broken stones.

Its face was a mask of shifting fire, no features save for two molten eyes that locked instantly onto Kael. The statues that had once worshipped froze, then fell to their knees again this time trembling, chanting a single phrase in broken unison: “SHADE OF THE FLAME.”

Ryven’s blade hummed with power, his stance rigid. “Damn it… the seal spat out an echo.” Lyra staggered
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