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Chapter 107: The Voice Beyond the Mirror
Kael stood motionless at the edge of the broken dais, one hand still bleeding where the silver shard had bit into his palm. Blood streaked the stone at his feet, dark and slow, as if the very floor drank it. Lira’s voice echoed behind him, sharp and desperate, but he could not turn to her. Not yet.Before him, the mirror shimmered.Not glass. Not water.A thin veil of reality stretched tight and trembling, as though it strained to hold back something monstrous. Something old. His blood had awakened it. The shard had not been a key. It had been bait.The mirror’s surface rippled again, and this time a voice seeped through.“You are not ready,” it whispered, not with sound but with memory. It was Kael’s own voice, younger and filled with hope, speaking words he had once shouted across the moors to a mother who never answered. “You were never meant to carry this.”Kael’s jaw clenched. He took one step forward.“I carry it still,” he said.The mirror pulsed.Lira’s hand grabbed his arm, n
Chapter 106: The Wound That Cannot Heal
The wind howled through the broken towers of the shattered keep, dragging ash and salt across the stone like a blade scraping bone. Kael stood at the edge of the cliff, breath heavy, fingers clenched around the hilt of the blood-wet sword. The sea below thrashed like a wounded beast, its foam blackened by the filth that bled from the corpse of the wyrm.Behind him, the remnants of the battalion were silent. No cheers. No relief. Just the terrible stillness that follows something too costly to be called victory.Kael turned slowly, his eyes hollow. His cloak clung to his shoulders, soaked through with sea spray and gore. He passed through the broken gates of the keep without a word. No one dared stop him. Not after what they had seen. Not after what he had become.Inside, the hall was in ruins. Half the roof had caved in during the wyrm’s death throes. The floor was cracked, marble sundered by the tremor of its final scream. Kael’s steps echoed faintly as he moved through the wreckage
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
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