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Chapter 102 — The Gate Below
The stone door pulsed like a beating heart.Kael stood before it, blood dripping from his fingers. The spiral on his palm glowed brighter than ever, veins of silver crawling up his forearm as if trying to escape his skin. Lira knelt behind him, her breath ragged, her side torn open by a glaive she had barely dodged. The chamber trembled with a distant rhythm, not from footsteps or collapsing walls, but from something deeper.Beneath them.“You cannot open it alone,” came a voice from behind.Kael turned, blade already halfway drawn, but stopped when he saw her. The Archivist. Not the twisted phantom they had fought at the black stair, but the one who had first warned him in the shattered memory of the library. She looked real now. Solid. The streak of void in her hair danced like smoke.“It only responds to choice,” she said. “Not to force.”“I have made my choice,” Kael growled.“Then you are already closer to death than you know.”Lira tried to speak but coughed up blood instead. Ka
Chapter 101: The Devouring Gate
Kael staggered as the temple floor split beneath him, coughing on dust and ancient rot. The chamber was collapsing. Flames licked up the walls from the corrupted braziers, twisting into clawed shapes that scraped at the ceiling like they wanted to rip the sky open.Behind him, Lira’s voice cracked with fury. “You should have left me.”“No,” Kael growled, pulling her closer under his arm. “We end this together.”The blade in his grip pulsed like a living thing. The moment he had plunged it into the altar, everything had changed. The weight of the Veiled God’s presence had lifted, but in its place, something worse had awakened. A deeper hunger. Something that had waited beyond the world’s breath, something that now stirred.He helped Lira limp across the shaking stones as obsidian cracks widened in every direction. The priestesses lay dead around the altar, faces burned or twisted into silent screams. He did not know which of them had been real and which had been shadows, only that they
Chapter 100 - The Sea That Wakes
The sky had split in half.Kael felt it before he saw it. A crack through the clouds like a wound in the heavens, bleeding light too bright and unnatural. He clutched Lira tighter in his arms as Nyra caught up behind him, her robes dragging through the soot-covered ground. The whisper from the sky still echoed in his ears.Return what was taken.He did not know what that meant.But he knew the spiral on his arm burned like it would sear through bone.“We need to leave,” Nyra said, her voice strained. “Now.”They moved fast. Down the narrow trail carved between cliffs, their shadows long against the jagged stone. The once-clear waters of the river had turned a murky gray, and far off in the distance, Kael saw it again. That stretch of impossible blue, the glass sea.Only now, it rippled.Not from wind.From something beneath.They reached the camp in silence. Most of the survivors were gathered around the fire pits, watching the sky as though waiting for it to fall. None spoke. None qu
Chapter 99 - The Price of Breaking
The air in the shattered courtyard had grown too still.Kael stood with his blade drawn, Lira’s blood drying against his chest. Her breathing was faint in his arms, too faint for comfort. The storm above had quieted as if even the skies waited to see what would come next.Nyra knelt by the edge of the cracked dais, pressing her hand against the ground, whispering in a voice only the earth understood. Magic coiled from her fingertips like silver smoke, vanishing into the fractures.The silence was broken by slow footsteps.A man emerged from the broken gate—robed in crimson, hands bare, eyes silver as frost. His presence sucked the warmth from the air. Kael’s grip tightened around his sword as the man walked across the rubble, not once looking at the corpses he stepped over.“You are late,” Kael said coldly.“I was waiting,” the man replied. “For you to bleed. For her to fall. And for that wretched blade to awaken.”Kael’s jaw locked. “You’re the one they called the Hollow Flame.”“I w
Chapter 98 - The Wyrm’s Breath
The wind that tore through the shattered canyon screamed like a living thing. Dust spun in wild spirals as Kael gripped the rock ledge, his knuckles bloodless, eyes narrowed against the sting. Below him, the ground had split open. From the depths surged tendrils of smoke thick as vines, and beneath that haze moved something massive, something alive.He could barely breathe. Not just from the ash clogging his lungs, but from the pressure that twisted the very air around him. It was like standing in the presence of a god who had not spoken in centuries but was now beginning to breathe again.Lira dropped beside him, her blade drawn and glowing with fractured runes. “It’s waking,” she said. “The seal’s broken.”Kael looked down. “No. It’s not just waking.”The smoke parted for a moment. Just long enough for him to see it.Eyes. Plural.Dozens of them. Glimmering in the dark like lanterns beneath water. One blinked. Then another. Each the size of a man’s torso. They did not look up. Not y
Chapter 97 - The Voice Beneath the Stone
The moment Kael stepped through the veil of ash and flame, the world changed.Gone was the endless stretch of blackened land behind him. Gone were the screams. The echo of Lira’s voice faded like mist in the wind. What replaced it was silence—terrible and deep. A silence that gnawed at the bones.He stood at the threshold of an ancient cavern, its walls breathing with veins of molten light. The air pulsed like a dying heart. The ground beneath him felt wrong, too soft, too warm. Every step sank slightly, as if the stone was alive.Kael moved slowly. His blade, slick with the blood of the last guardian, pulsed faintly in his hand. It had not spoken since the breach. Not a whisper, not a hum. Even the spiral mark on his chest remained cold. That worried him more than anything.A faint whisper drifted ahead.Not words.Breathing.Low, guttural, inhuman.He approached the sound, boots sinking into stone that felt more like skin. The cavern narrowed, bending into impossible angles, twistin
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