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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: GHOST OF THE FIRST SOULBORN
The desert was still burning. Velra shielded her eyes from the flare that had just erupted from the temple. Lira stood stunned blades lowered, mouth parted. The Hollow Flame stared, expression unreadable. From the crater, Kael emerged. But this wasn't the Kael they knew.His eyes were glowing, one white, one flickering silver. Veins of fire crawled under his skin. He hovered above the sand, cloak fluttering, body wrapped in white flame with undertones of something... older. Then he dropped to his knees, gasping. The light winked out. Silence fell.“Did I… pass?” he whispered.But instead of an answer. A second figure walked out of the smoke. A man with no shadow. He looked no older than thirty. But the moment Kael saw him, his chest clenched. The man radiated pressure gravity, almost.Skin like obsidian glass. Hair long and pale, flowing unnaturally behind him. Robes embroidered with runes that moved on their own.“Who…?” Kael asked. Velra’s voice cracked from behind. “That’s impossib
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE BREATHING TEMPLE
Days later, Kael and the others stood before a gaping canyon of swirling sand. It moaned. A sound like a dying breath ancient and endless. “The temple is alive,” Velra whispered. “It breathes when Soulborn approach.”Below them, a staircase descended into nothingness. Only Kael could enter. He turned to Lira. “If I don’t come back” “You’re coming back,” she cut him off. “Or I’ll drag your ghost out by the hair.” He gave a thin smile. Then stepped into the mouth of the temple.The stone grew warmer the deeper he walked. Symbols glowed along the walls languages he didn’t know, yet somehow understood. Burn only what you fear. Fear only what you hide.The first chamber lit itself as he entered. Tombs lined the walls standing upright, faces carved into them, mouths open. Whispers filled the air. They were speaking to him.“Blood of the First Flame… Forgotten Heir… Broken Son…”Kael’s heartbeat slowed. He wasn’t alone in the dark. A roar echoed through the corridor ahead. Then a mirror appe
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: THE BLACK WOLF
The trees fell silent. Even the wind stopped breathing. Kael stood between Velra and Lira, staring at the figure in black. His coat billowed without wind. Silver eyes glinted beneath a hood of shadows.The Hollow Flame spoke first. “Lukan.” A name that felt like broken steel. The man known as the Black Wolf stepped forward barefoot on snow, yet untouched by cold. “You’ve kept him hidden long enough,” he said softly. “Now the leash is off.”Kael instinctively lit his hands fire crackling at his palms. The Hollow Flame grabbed his arm. “No. You can’t win this fight yet.”Lira whispered to Velra as they backed away: “Who is he?”Velra’s voice trembled. “Not a man. Not anymore. He was forged from the Void, stitched together from warlocks, assassins, and monsters the Council couldn’t control.”“He’s Soulborn?” “No. Worse. He’s what happens when you try to mimic one.”Kael stepped forward. “I won’t run.” The Black Wolf tilted his head. “Good. Running is boring.” He vanished. In a heartbeat,
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: ECHOES OF THE SOULBORN
The golden eye blinked once. Then it spoke. Not with words but with memory. Kael’s vision blurred. He was no longer in the forest. Instead, he stood in an endless hall of glass stars shimmering in the floor, constellations crawling across the walls like living veins of light.A Watcher floated before him ancient, faceless, robed in starlight and silence. “You are the vessel,” it whispered. “The last Soulborn.” Kael clenched his fists. “What is that?”“The one who holds the fragments of the Primordial Flame. A weapon… or a warning.” Flashes filled the space: A thousand warriors bowing before a child with burning eyes. Empires collapsing beneath storms of fire. A Council standing above a soul infused coffin, chanting Kael’s name.“They erased your path to prevent your rise,” the Watcher said.“But now… the seals fracture.”Kael snapped back, gasping steam rolling off his body. The eye vanished. The sky closed. Velra sat beside him, frost gone from her touch. Lira stood a few feet away,
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE NAME IN THE FLAMES
The trees froze mid bloom. Velra’s power spread in a perfect ring, snowflakes hanging still in the air like time had fractured. Kael stood in the center, shirtless, breathing steam.Lira flanked him, blades drawn, flames pulsing from her palms. But Kael raised a hand. “No. She’s mine.” Velra tilted her head, her gaze sorrowful. “Then you’ve already lost.”She struck first sending ice shards faster than sound. Kael dodged one, two then caught the third mid-air and melted it in his fist. Their powers collided, frost against thunderfire. “Why are you doing this?” Kael shouted between blows.“Because I loved you,” Velra replied, “and they turned you into him.”While Kael fought for his life, the Hollow Flame stood at the cliff’s edge, watching the storm of magic light up the trees. He knew this moment would come. He knew Kael would ask the question. And he knew what lay buried beneath the temple under lock, seal, and blood oath.He whispered to the wind, as if to an old friend. “You alway
CHAPTER TWELVE: ASHES OF THE HEART
Kael awoke screaming. Not from pain but from remembrance. A woman’s face. Soft eyes. Crimson scarf.And the word she whispered before vanishing into flame: “Survive.”They were camped near the Vein of Storms. The battle with Thorne had left Kael bruised and cracked inside but something else had opened too. A fragment of his past. “I think I just saw my mother,” he murmured. The Hollow Flame stiffened.Lira sat beside him. “You remember her?”“Only the fire,” Kael whispered. “And her voice. She told me to survive. Like she knew what would come.” The Hollow Flame walked away. But Lira saw it, he was afraid.In a tower of ice, buried in a forgotten tundra, she stirred. They called her Velra the Pale, once a healer, now a hunter forged from frost and vengeance. The Council’s emissary bowed. “Kael Vale has awakened two fragments. Your turn has come.”She didn't speak. She simply opened a frozen cage… revealing a corpse. One that looked exactly like Kael. She placed her hand over its heart.
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