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Chapter 243: Anna's Decision
Anna spoke before Jacob could. "I will do it. I will stay inside to seal the void.""No." Jacob's response was immediate and absolute. "Not happening. We find another way.""There is no other way." Anna was already gathering the artifacts, preparing to channel them. "Someone has to stay inside to maintain the seal. That someone is me.""We do not even know if this will work!" Jacob grabbed her arm, stopping her from channeling. "Marcus is guessing based on theory and what happened to my mother. This could kill you for nothing.""And if we do nothing, that thing kills everyone." Anna pulled free and gestured at the First Betrayer, which was watching their argument with obvious amusement. "Not just us. Everyone in Seron. Everyone the Darkness can reach. Millions of people."The creature was advancing again, having apparently decided their planning time was over. Behind them, the surviving fighters were regrouping but they looked broken. Maybe fifty people left out of hundreds who had en
Chapter 242: The Void Plan
The First Betrayer stopped advancing. Its attention shifted to Marcus with something that looked like interest rather than dismissal."The void," it said slowly. "You want to send me back to the prison I just escaped from. Bold. Suicidal, but bold."Jacob helped Anna stand. "Can it work? Opening a gateway?""In theory," Marcus said, wincing as he tried to move his broken arm. "Your mother did it fifteen years ago. Entered the void to attack the Darkness from inside while your father maintained the seals from outside.""But she got trapped," Anna said."Yes. Because opening the gateway is the easy part. Closing it again requires someone on both sides—one person pushing from this reality while another seals it from within the void."The First Betrayer laughed. "And whoever seals it from inside cannot return. They become part of the prison itself, using their own life force to maintain the barrier. Your mother understood this when she entered. She sacrificed herself knowing she would nev
Chapter 241: Desperate Strategies
Jacob forced himself to stand despite ribs that screamed protest with every breath. The First Betrayer was still advancing slowly, giving them time to recover because it knew recovery would not matter."Different approach," Jacob gasped to Anna. "The artifacts together are not working. We separate them. Hit it from five directions simultaneously."Anna nodded despite obvious pain. They split the artifacts between them—Jacob taking three, Anna taking two. Moved to opposite sides of the creature and attacked in coordination.Five different beams of energy struck the First Betrayer from multiple angles. Not a single concentrated force but five separate assaults that should have been impossible to defend against all at once.The creature grew larger.Actually expanded, its form swelling to encompass the space where the attacks landed. The energy was not hurting it but feeding it, making it more present in physical reality rather than less."Interesting try," it said, its voice deeper now
Chapter 240: First Assault
Jacob stopped listening. The First Betrayer was still talking, still explaining the depths of its manipulation, but Jacob could not hear it anymore over the rage building in his chest.Everything. His father's death. His mother's sacrifice. Fifteen years of training and preparing and hunting for vengeance. All of it had been following a script written by something that viewed human lives as tools to be used and discarded.The artifacts blazed in his hands. Not the creative light Anna had helped him discover but the old combat energy—raw destructive power channeled through weapons that had been designed to fight entities exactly like this."Jacob, wait—" Anna started to say, but he was already moving.He attacked with everything he had learned. Every technique his ancestors had passed down through the artifacts' memory. Every strategy that had defeated supernatural threats across millennia. The five artifacts blazed together, their combined power creating effects that would have levele
Chapter 239: Bishop's Unwitting Service
The First Betrayer seemed to be enjoying itself now, relishing the opportunity to explain just how thoroughly it had manipulated everyone. Its form settled into something almost fully human—tall, angular features that might have been handsome before corruption twisted them into something that hurt to look at for too long."Let me tell you about Bishop Nico," it said, walking slowly around Jacob and Anna like a teacher giving a lecture. "A greedy, ambitious man who believed himself clever enough to seize power through careful planning and ruthless execution."The creature laughed, and the sound carried genuine amusement rather than malice. "He thought the idea to eliminate the Krigg family was his own. Spent years planning it, recruiting allies, arranging circumstances. Never once suspected that every inspiration, every strategic insight, every moment of clarity came from me."Jacob's hands tightened on the artifacts. "You are saying Bishop did not choose to kill my family?""Oh, he ch
Chapter 238: Failed Sealing
The First Betrayer gestured again and new visions formed. These were older, hazier, like memories that had degraded over millennia of imprisonment but still carried enough detail to tell their story."You want to know why your ancestors sealed me instead of killing me?" the creature asked. "Let me show you what they tried first."The vision showed a battlefield that looked like the end of the world. The sky was torn open in places, revealing void beyond. The ground was scorched and shattered, entire mountains reduced to rubble. And in the center of it all, two forces clashed.On one side stood the First Betrayer—not yet transformed into the massive entity Jacob faced now but still clearly more than human. His body blazed with power that made the air around him burn, wielding mystical energy on a scale that should not have been possible.On the other side stood dozens of guardians. Jacob recognized some faces from ancient family portraits—his own ancestors among them, along with Anna's
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