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Chapter 98 — Blade Against Blood
The clash rang through the ancient chamber like thunder shattering stone. Kael’s blade met the masked man’s curved dagger in a shower of sparks. The impact numbed Kael’s wrist. He pivoted to the side and parried a second strike aimed for his throat.The man moved like a phantom. Each motion was practiced and merciless, not a dance but an execution. Runes flared along his arms, carved directly into flesh, burning violet beneath his skin. Madness pulsed from him like a second heartbeat.Kael blocked low, then drove his knee into the man’s ribs. Bone cracked, but the figure did not stagger. Instead, he grinned with bloodied teeth and whispered, “You’re slower than I was.”Kael’s spine locked. “You… were a vessel?”“Not were,” the man hissed. “Still am.”He slammed both palms into Kael’s chest. The spiral mark flared. Kael screamed as if the shard itself had awakened inside him. His vision swam. Time warped. For a heartbeat, he saw through the man’s memories—a hundred faces dying by his h
Chapter 97 — The Price of a God’s Memory
The sky above the crumbling tower split open with a soundless scream. Kael barely had time to shield his eyes before the black lightning descended, not in streaks but in woven threads, like a web of raw agony threading itself into the world. The spiral mark on his chest ignited with fire. He stumbled back, and Lira caught him by the arm before he fell.“It’s happening again,” he gritted out.“No,” she said firmly, her hand trembling against his. “This is worse.”The ruins around them trembled. The tower they had entered, once buried beneath the sands of the Shattered Reaches, had revealed more than stone and forgotten traps. It had revealed memory. Not just Kael’s, but something ancient. Something divine. The god that had once bled here had never truly died.Kael stepped toward the broken dais. Symbols pulsed on its surface. Veins of golden light spread from it like roots, crawling across the floor toward him. At the center of the dais sat a single shard of obsidian, glinting with a d
Chapter 94 - Beneath the Spiral
Kael did not land.He fell.Through dark that moved. Through cold that was not just absence but hunger. Wind howled, but not from air. From memory. From grief. Screams of lost voices wrapped around him, whispering his name, each one laced with a different emotion—rage, sorrow, worship, fear.And still he fell.The Spiral burned at his chest like a brand. Its glow pulsed through the dark, the only light in an endless descent. There was no ground. No sky. Only him, and the pull.Then—Stillness.He stood, somehow.The world around him was a void, but not empty. Not dead.Alive.Shifting mist curled in arcs, forming spirals in the dark. The space breathed. Every breath carried a thousand thoughts not his own. Whispers crawled across the edge of his mind.He turned.And saw it.A city without foundation, floating in the abyss. Built on nothing. Structures that shimmered between solid and spirit. Towers shaped like spears, palaces made of bone and crystal. Every surface glowed faintly, as
Chapter 93 - The Black Tide
Kael’s boots hit the ground hard as he landed at the base of the ridge. Smoke clawed at the edges of the valley, thick and acrid, curling from the charred remnants of the Watchtower. The eastern sky bled red as if the sun itself had been wounded. There was no wind. No birds. Just the low hum of the Wyrm’s breath poisoning the air.Lira limped beside him, blood trickling from a shallow cut on her temple. Her eyes never stopped scanning the ruins. The scent of scorched leather and metal clung to her, and Kael knew the detonation hadn’t just been to silence the Watchtower. It had been a message. The kind you sent to make people forget what hope was.They crossed into the smoking wreckage together. Splintered stone, shattered armor, and bodies sprawled in unnatural positions marked the destruction. Kael’s gaze caught on a fallen banner. The silver star of the Archive was blackened, trampled, and half-buried in ash.“They didn’t leave survivors,” Lira whispered.Kael said nothing. His jaw
Chapter 92 — The Glass Below
The glass sea was not a sea at all.Kael stood at the edge of a cliff, boots gritted into fractured shale, wind tearing at his cloak. Before him stretched a valley that shimmered like starlight had spilled across stone. No waves. No water. Only flat, glinting crystal, endless and broken by nothing except jagged spires jutting from below like spears angled to the sky.A dead ocean made of frozen light.Behind him, Nyra stepped up beside him, hair lashing her face. “This was real once,” she said quietly. “A kingdom drowned in glass. I thought it was just myth.”Kael’s voice was hollow. “And now we walk across it.”“No. We fall into it.”He turned. “What?”But she had already stepped forward and driven the butt of her spear into the surface.The ground cracked.A deep, groaning sound rumbled beneath their feet like the world waking from sleep. Then the glass split—no ripple, no warning—just a sudden explosion downward.Kael fell.Through glittering air. Through refracted fragments of him
Chapter 91 — The Silence Below
The silence in the stone corridor was unbearable.Kael’s footsteps echoed as he moved deeper into the mountain temple, torchlight dancing along walls etched with forgotten prayers. Behind him, the others lagged—Lira wounded and barely keeping pace, Nyra holding her arm. Their breaths were ragged, their nerves frayed. The spiral mark on Kael’s back burned like fire beneath his cloak, a familiar warning that whatever they approached was older than time and twice as cruel.A heavy door loomed ahead, iron-bound and sealed with ancient wards that pulsed faintly in the dark.Kael stopped.He raised the torch. The symbol carved into the stone was one he had seen once before—deep in the Archive’s forbidden wing, in the section no mortal scribe dared enter.“Are you sure this is it?” Lira whispered. Her voice cracked. Blood stained her side from the blade that grazed her during the escape from the Sunborn’s ambush.“I saw it in the vision,” Kael said. “This is the chamber.”Nyra stepped up bes
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