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Chapter 94: The Void Within
The battle was over.At least that’s what they said.But Kai opened his eyes, he wasn’t really sure if he'd made it through, or even if making it mattered much now.The infirmary stayed quiet except you could hear the wounded groaning. Those stone walls had cracks all over from the spells hitting hard. Bloodstains covered the floor. Some looked old, some still fresh. Healing charms glowed faintly, like weak candles. Arcadia's halls used to be something grand, now they were just a wreck, their smell hung heavy. Iron and smoke mixed with all that despair.Kai sat on the cot's edge. He stared down at his hands. They were steady. Too steady. Not trembling, not clenched. Just… empty.He tried to remember what those hands had done. He could see flashes: blades colliding, fire tearing through the night sky, screams that cut deeper than any weapon. Then nothing. A blank silence where his heart should have been.There should have been relief—he had won. The Circle was shattered, their lea
Chapter 93: The Price Of Victory
Silence.It fell heavy across the battlefield after the Circle leader’s body hit the ground. The clang of steel, the shouts, the spells muted, as if Arcadia itself had paused to take a breath.Kai stood over the corpse, his blade slick with blood, his chest heaving like it might split open. Sweat and ash dripped into his eyes. He barely noticed.All he felt was the tremor in his hands.The tremor of ending a ghost that had haunted two lifetimes.But victory didn’t taste like triumph. It tasted like iron, like ash, like something stolen.A ragged cry went up from the Inversion lines. Students cheered, voices breaking with relief. For a moment, hope pierced the smoke.But Kai didn’t smile.Something inside him was breaking.Shadows clawed at him, not in hunger just felt empty, like something vital got ripped away. His mind went blurry, memories slipped right through his fingers like water. Faces, voices, names all melted into nothing.He staggered, dropped to one knee. His blade clatter
Chapter 92: The Heartbreak Duel
The tunnel opened into ruin.Kai stepped over rubble, shadows clinging to his heels like armor, Lina’s weight still hot in his memory where he had carried her to safety minutes ago. She lay behind the lines now, her breath shallow, healers working frantically.And Kai, he walked into the night alone.The sky above Arcadia was fire and ash. Towers burned. The academy’s banners once bright blue and silver hung torn and blackened. Magic clashed in the air like storms colliding, the ground shuddering with every explosion.But Kai’s eyes found only one figure in the chaos.At the heart of the battlefield, amid the storm of blades and fire, stood the man. Cloaked in black, helm thrown aside, his face bare beneath the moonlight.Sharp jaw. Cruel mouth. Eyes like poisoned steel.The man who killed him.Kai’s breath caught, the ghost of Rafe surging through his veins like ice. His hand tightened on his sword.The Circle warriors pulled back, clearing space as if sensing what this was. Not a
Chapter 91: Lina’s Last Stand
The tunnels shook with the force of a hundred boots.The Circle wasn’t waiting. The survivors had barely laid Alden’s body down when the walls began to tremble with the sound of war drums echoing through the stone. Torches flared as runners rushed in, panic flashing in their eyes.“They’re here,” someone gasped, blood dripping from their jaw. “They’re coming from every tunnel…. every passage. We’re surrounded.”The chamber erupted in fear.The wounded cried out. The unarmed backed against the walls. The fighters gripped their weapons, though their hands trembled. They had nothing left to give and yet the Circle demanded everything. Kai stood at the center, his shoulders slumped low. Aldens last words kept banging around inside his head. He felt every single gaze locked on him, every hopes rested on his shoulders. The weight of it made his chest tighten up something fierce.You are not ready.That amulet throbbed warm against his skin. He itched to yank it off, crush it under his b
Chapter 90: The Last Lesson
The smoke never cleared.Every corner of the tunnels stank of blood and burning stone, of iron and charred skin. The Inversion’s fighters dragged themselves back into the central chamber, one by one, broken and bloodied. Some leaned on each other, some stumbled in alone, eyes hollow, too stunned to speak.Kai stood in the middle of it all, sword hanging limp in his hand. The light from Lina’s flames danced across his face, but his eyes were shadowed.He had promised them a safe haven. What he gave them instead was a graveyard.The silence was heavier than the battle had been. Every cough, every groan of the injured scraped against him like a blade. He couldn’t breathe without feeling the weight of every death.And still—the amulet pulsed against his chest. Heavy. Whispering.You could have saved them. If you weren’t afraid.Lina reached for him, her hand hovering near his arm but not quite touching. She had blood smeared across her cheek, her hair clinging to her face with sweat.
Chapter 89: The Siege Of Shadows
The first scream wasn’t just loud, it was sharp, the kind that split through stone and marrow alike.Kai was on his feet instantly, blade in hand before thought caught up. The underground chamber had been too still, too quiet, a false kind of peace after days of battle. He had almost convinced himself the tunnels were safe. Now, the sound of steel, spellfire, and terror made the lie obvious.The Circle had found them.Across the chamber, Lina was already up, her hair loose, shadows of torchlight brushing her face. Her eyes met his. No questions, no hesitation. Just the unspoken truth between them.“Kai.” Her voice was steady despite the chaos building outside.“Stay close,” he said.The wall to their right buckled before he finished. The stone shuddered, cracks spiderwebbing across it, then shattered outward with a deafening roar. Dust filled the air. Torches flickered and died.Hooded figures poured through the breach, weapons gleaming, their chants echoing like the voices of exe
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