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Chapter 131
Author: Perfect Pen
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The name echoed.

Not through the room.

Not through walls.

But through everything.

Through memory. Through time. Through galaxies asleep in the folds of black space. Through ruins buried in silence. Through forgotten bloodlines and hollow stars and locked tombs not meant to be found.

It was not a word—it was a key.

Kael didn’t scream it.

He whispered it. And the universe listened.

And it remembered.

The air shimmered with pressure too ancient for gravity to understand. The floor cracked beneath his boots, not from weight—but from identity. From the collision of who he had been and who he had become.

He had said his name.

The real one.

The one they stole. Buried. Deleted. Replaced.

And it shattered the lie of the world.

Awakenings

Marcus screamed first.

Not from pain. From force.

It was like his lungs forgot how to breathe. Like time itself slammed into his chest. He stumbled, grabbing a wall, eyes wide as silver tendrils raced across his skin, lighting up every vein like he was being r
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