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Chapter 105 - The Thing Beneath the Stone
The wall to Kael’s left shattered inward.Dust and stone blasted across the corridor. Kael spun, shielding Lira with his body. The crash of impact rolled like thunder, and then came the growl. Low. Unnatural. Carried on the air like the echo of something that had not drawn breath in centuries.Lira pulled her blade. “That sound…”“I know,” Kael said.They backed away from the breach in the wall. Beyond it was no ordinary tunnel. The stone there had been carved in spirals, deep and wide, lined with bone-white crystal veins that pulsed with a dull red glow. Something moved inside them. Not a creature. Not a shadow. A presence.Then Kael heard it. Not aloud, but inside his skull.“Blood that remembers. Fire that forgets. You have come at last.”He raised his sword. “Show yourself.”From the spiraled tunnel, something dragged itself forward.At first, Kael thought it was stone shifting. But then the form took shape. A thing with too many limbs. Skin like obsidian wrapped in chains of gold
Chapter 104 - The Door Without a Name
The steps echoed too long in the silence. Kael did not look back as he descended into the hollow beneath the Wyrmgate. Each footfall dragged with it the weight of everything he had endured. Firelight danced on the carved walls, illuminating scenes of ancient ruin and twisted glory. He knew this place was not built by mortals. The architecture whispered wrongness, like the walls had learned to listen.Behind him, Lira watched. She had refused to go further. Her eyes had turned silver again, and she whispered, “Whatever lies beyond that door… you must go alone.”He had nodded, not trusting himself to speak.The final staircase opened into a wide chamber lit by a cold, pale flame that floated in midair. It pulsed like a heartbeat, but not his own. In the center stood the door.It had no hinges. No handle. No name.Just smooth black stone veined with crimson light that pulsed when he neared it.Kael raised his hand. The spiral on his palm burned through his glove. He touched the surface.
Chapter 103: The Godless Flame
The vision shattered with a soundless scream.Kael stumbled back into himself, sweat slicking his brow, the memory of the red-robed figure still burning behind his eyes. The Veiled God’s voice echoed in his skull like a fading curse, but something else lingered too—a tremble in the air, like the hum of old chains ready to snap.He stood at the edge of the broken altar, its obsidian surface still pulsing with faint light. Lira was kneeling nearby, her hands pressed to the stone as if it might still hold warmth. She looked up when he moved, her silver eyes wide with unspoken fear.“It showed you something, didn’t it?” she asked.Kael nodded slowly. “A god who fell into the flame. A god with no name.”Lira rose to her feet, brushing dust from her armor. “Not just any god. The one they feared. The one the others chained.”Nyra stepped into the clearing from the shadows, her twin daggers drawn though nothing moved in the trees. “Then why do you bear its mark, Kael? Why does the Spiral burn
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
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