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Chapter 206 — Into The Flame
Silence. It wasn’t death. Death was simple cold, dark, final. This… wasn’t.Kael floated in nothingness, his body weightless, his mind barely holding shape. He tried to breathe, but there was no air, only heat raw, endless, swallowing every thought that wasn’t fire.He opened his eyes. Flame. Not his. Not anymore. It was older infinitely older stretching across a horizon that had no end, a sea of molten gold and blood-red light.Each flicker carried memories that weren’t his empires rising and burning, gods screaming as they were born and devoured by their own light.And in the center of it all… stood the figure.The First Ember. The true flame that had existed before time, wearing the vague shape of a man because that was all Kael’s mortal mind could comprehend.Its eyes opened, golden and cold. “You should not exist.”Kael forced himself to stand, though every motion sent pain tearing through him. His skin cracked like burnt glass, fire spilling from the fissures. “Too late,” he ras
Chapter 205 — The Third Voice
The world had no sound only a violent ringing that drowned everything else. Lyra blinked through the white glare, her vision scorched by the explosion.Kael was a blur beside her, half crouched, one arm thrown protectively in front of her. The air still vibrated with the echo of the Sovereign’s scream a sound that wasn’t pain but disbelief.The light flickered again. Something inside the god was moving.A crimson fissure crawled through the Sovereign’s chest, bleeding light that wasn’t divine raw, primal, and almost human. It pulsed like a heartbeat, tearing wider with every throb.Kael gritted his teeth, forcing himself upright. His whole body shook, blood and flame leaking from his skin, but his eye burned with that familiar defiance.“Lyra,” he rasped, “get back.”She didn’t move. “Not without you.”“Damn it”The rest of his words were swallowed by the sound. The fissure screamed.It wasn’t sound, it was memory. Images flooded the air around them in flashes: a battlefield, a sky fu
Chapter 204 — The Heart's Judgement
The world detonated. Light blinding, molten, divine erupted around her. Lyra’s body felt like it was being ripped apart by the seams of existence itself. Every nerve screamed. Every heartbeat burned.Then, all at once silence again.When the light dimmed, she was on her knees. The golden ground beneath her trembled like something alive, throbbing with slow, godlike rhythm. It wasn’t stone. It was flesh. The floor pulsed like a living heart.And in front of her...Kael.He hung in the air, chained by radiant fire, his head bowed, his body trembling under the pressure of power that no mortal should ever face. His skin was carved with glowing sigils that bled light instead of blood.“Kael,” she whispered.His head jerked slightly, the faintest flicker of life returning to his eyes. “…Lyra?”She stumbled to her feet, ignoring the pain in her limbs, the trembling of her soul. Every step toward him felt like moving against a hurricane.The air was thick with divinity too thick for mortals to
Chapter 203 — Ashes Of A Promise
Silence. That was the first thing Lyra noticed when she woke silence so deep it hurt. No screams. No thunder.No heartbeat from the world itself. Only the faint hum of air against her skin and the smell of burned stone. Her eyes opened slowly. The world was gray.Ruins stretched around her frozen fragments of what had once been the sky, drifting like glass shards through the mist. Her body ached in every possible way, her ribs screaming when she tried to move.But she wasn’t dead. Her tether still hummed faintly, flickering around her like dying light. She sat up slowly, one trembling hand pressing to her chest. “Kael…”The name escaped before she could stop it, a prayer wrapped in pain. No answer came. Her throat tightened.Memories slammed into her Kael shouting as the Heart collapsed, the light swallowing everything, Mira’s scream vanishing into fire. Then nothing.Lyra looked around. The sky if it could still be called that was filled with veins of red light, pulsing faintly in th
Chapter 202— The Heart of Fire
There was no falling only being torn apart. Kael’s mind shattered into fragments of flame and memory as the void folded inward.Mira’s scream echoed beside him, distant and fading, like the sound of light being swallowed whole. The Sovereign’s laughter became thunder, shaking every thread of what remained of existence.Then Silence. A heartbeat. Kael gasped as his body reformed bones from fire, skin from ash. He was standing. Barely. The world around him pulsed in shades of crimson and gold.He was inside the Heart. The walls around him weren’t walls, they were veins of molten light, pulsing with impossible life. Every beat sent waves of heat through his body, making the ember in his chest throb in rhythm.“Mira!” he shouted, turning wildly.Her voice answered faintly from beyond the glow. “Kael here!”He found her kneeling beside a pool of living fire, her hands pressed against something inside it a shape, faint and shifting, as though buried beneath molten glass.Kael rushed to her,
Chapter 201 — The Ash Left Behind
The sky had forgotten how to breathe. Lyra knelt amid the ruins, one hand pressed to the ground as if she could still feel the pulse of the world beneath the ash.But there was nothing now no sound, no air, no trace of the storm that had once raged through this place. Only silence and the faint crackle of dying flame.Her blade, cracked and blackened, rested beside her knee. She stared at it without seeing, her chest heaving in uneven gasps.Her armor was gone in places, scorched through to bare skin. Smoke clung to her hair, to her lips, to the tears that refused to fall.They were gone. Kael. Mira.Dragged into the heart of the Sovereign’s light swallowed by that impossible fire before she could even scream their names.She’d seen Kael’s hand reaching for Mira, seen their forms vanish in a surge of radiance that tore the sky apart.And then there was nothing. Lyra’s breath hitched. She pressed her palms into the ash, bowing forward until her forehead touched the scorched ground. The
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