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Chapter 143 – The Hollow Crown(2)
The silence was unbearable. Kael stood at the center of the scorched crater, chest heaving, ash clinging to his skin. Mira pressed against his side, trembling, her hand gripping his torn shirt as if letting go meant losing him to the abyss all over again.Around them, the vessels knelt dozens, maybe hundreds faces hidden in shadow, their bodies marked with crimson fissures that pulsed like living wounds. Their eyes glowed faintly beneath their hoods, all fixed on Kael.They didn’t move. Didn’t breathe. Didn’t exist as individuals. They were one. And their one voice still hung in the air. All hail the Hollow Crown.Kael’s hand tightened on Ryven’s sword until his palm split, blood dripping into the scorched dirt. “I’m not” His voice cracked, raw. He tried again, louder, desperate. “I’m not your king!”The vessels’ heads lifted in perfect unison. Their glowing eyes locked onto him, empty yet suffocating. And as one, they answered.You are the fracture. The crown is bound to you. You are
Chapter 142 – Shattered Skies
The abyss fell apart like glass. Kael dragged Mira through the chaos, his lungs burning, each breath like swallowing fire.Stone split open beneath them, molten rivers pouring upward instead of down, as though the world itself had lost its balance. The prison’s ceiling if it could be called that fractured into shards of blackened light, raining like razors.Every step was survival. Every heartbeat was stolen. “Kael!” Mira’s voice cracked, her feet slipping on the trembling stone.He caught her with one arm, hauling her forward even as Ryven’s sword scorched his hand. Its flame sputtered, as if it too fought to survive the unraveling.The Hollow King’s words still echoed in Kael’s head. You are the fracture. He bit down hard, forcing the thought back. There was no time. Not for doubt. Not for fear.The stone path before them splintered, opening into a yawning chasm. Lava surged like a living thing, roaring upward. Kael leapt, Mira clutched against him.For a heartbeat they hung in air,
Chapter 141 – The Hollow Crown
The abyss did not breathe. The chains were still. The fires that once raged in the pit guttered out, leaving only the low crackle of molten stone. A silence hung so heavy that even Mira’s ragged breaths seemed too loud, as though sound itself feared to move.Kael’s grip on Ryven’s sword trembled. The blade still burned, but dimly, the flame faltering as if it too were stunned by what now stood before them.The Hollow King’s towering form was gone. In its place, rising from the cracked stone, was a figure no taller than Kael himself. Human shaped. But not human.Its body was forged of shadow and light both, fissures glowing crimson across pale, almost flesh like skin. Fragments of the jagged crown floated above its head, orbiting slowly like broken moons.The face was half covered in darkness, half bared enough for Kael to see lips curved in a smile that chilled him to the bone.The figure tilted its head, as if testing the limits of its neck. When it spoke, the voice was smooth, almos
Chapter 140 – Chains of the Abyss
The storm fell. Chains screamed down like a rain of black steel, thousands of them arcing from every corner of the abyss, each one tipped with jagged hooks burning with abyssal flame.They filled the air so completely that for a heartbeat, there was no sky, no stone, no light, only blades.Kael roared, Ryven’s sword igniting in a flood of white flame. He spun, cleaving through the first wave, each strike spraying sparks and molten fragments of shadow.Mira thrust her hands upward, light exploding from her palms, forming a barrier that spread in a wide dome around them. The first impact hit like a mountain.Chains crashed into the barrier, each strike cracking the dome, shattering light into a million shards. Mira screamed as blood poured from her nose, her body convulsing with the strain of holding.Kael threw himself against the torrent, hacking wildly, the flame of his sword blinding in the darkness. But for every chain cut, ten more took its place.The Hollow King’s voice rumbled f
Chapter 139 – The Break in the Chains
The pit convulsed like a living thing. When Kael’s blade tore through the fracture, flame erupted in a blazing arc that carved across the Hollow King’s domain. The cavern howled, stone splitting as torrents of shadow writhed away from the searing light.The Hollow King recoiled with a roar that split the air, its towering frame staggering backward, jagged crown sparking as fissures of crimson light tore across its form.Mira gasped, the chains crushing her chest slackening for the first time. She collapsed to both knees, clutching at the ground, her vision blurring from the sudden rush of air back into her lungs.Through the storm of shadow and fire, Kael stepped into the pit.He was barely standing. His armor was shattered, his body battered and broken, blood streaking across his face.Yet his human eye blazed like a furnace, and the flame of Ryven’s sword burned steady in his hand. Each step he took shook the pit, his presence carving a path of light through the suffocating darkness
Chapter 138 – Chains of the Hollow
The pit howled like a wounded beast. The clash of Mira’s searing light against the Hollow King’s abyssal darkness shook the cavern apart, veins of crimson energy splitting open across the walls.The chained prisoners writhed, their voices a dreadful harmony of agony and awe as they were pulled tighter into the vortex of power.Mira’s body was screaming with pain. Every nerve felt aflame, her skin cracked with fissures of light as if she were burning from the inside.Her knees buckled, her breath came in ragged gasps, but her eyes blazed unyielding as she stood against the monstrous silhouette of the Hollow King.The thing’s form rippled, its jagged glass crown shattering and reforming in endless rhythm. Its voice dripped across the cavern, thick as tar.“You carry a flame that was not meant to burn here. A mistake. An intrusion. I will unmake it.”Its arm swept forward, a wall of shadows surging toward Mira. She thrust both hands out, a desperate cry tearing from her throat as her uns
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