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Chapter 70 — The King’s Command
The demon general’s hand tightened around the broken stone.Dust fell in slow streams as the creature pulled itself higher from the ancient chamber beneath the cathedral. The chains wrapped around its arms glowed faintly, their holy inscriptions flickering as if struggling to remember their purpose.Panic spread across the sanctum. Knights raised their shields and priests intensified their chanting.Eron stood frozen beside Kael on the balcony.“What did you mean,” Eron whispered, “a general?”Kael did not answer immediately because the creature below was looking directly at him.Not at the knights.Not at the priests.Not in the city but at him and tecognition burned in those ancient eyes.Kael’s mind raced.If the general fully emerged, the Church would be forced to unleash divine containment. That would draw the attention of the gods again.If the general spoke Kael’s name aloud, everything would end.And worst of all Kael could feel the seal weakening in response to the creature’s
Chapter 69 — Echoes of the Hero
The cathedral square smelled of dust, broken stone, and fear.Eron lay motionless on the cracked marble floor beneath the Trial Spire. His breathing was steady but shallow, and faint strands of golden light still clung to his skin like fading sunlight.Kael knelt beside him despite the trembling in his own body.The seal inside his chest burned like a wound that refused to close. Each heartbeat sent pain through his ribs, reminding him that the divine pressure from moments earlier had nearly torn the seal apart.Church knights surrounded them in a wide circle, their weapons raised but uncertain. No one moved, no one spoke.They were all waiting.After the trial, Priest Valther stepped forward slowly, gripping his staff tightly enough that the wood creaked.“What happened inside the Trial?” Valther asked.Kael did not look at him. He kept his eyes on Eron.“The divine illusion collapsed,” Kael said calmly. “Eron resisted.”Valther’s gaze hardened.“The illusion does not collapse,” Valt
Chapter 68 — The Light That Remembers
The divine light fell like a silent avalanche. It did not burn, it did not strike.It claimed.The square, the spire, the crowd, and everything disappeared inside it.For a moment, the world became white.Eron felt the ground vanish beneath his feet. Then he was standing alone.No Kael.No Church knights.No priests.No sky only endless light.His breathing echoed loudly in the emptiness.“Kael?” he called, nobody answered but a voice responded instead.“You stand at the threshold of destiny.” It was calm, ancient, and unquestionably powerful.Eron swallowed. “Where am I?”“The place where heroes are chosen.”The First Illusion, the light shifted and a battlefield appeared.Not an illusion like before, this one had weight, smell, and sound. Like smoke, blood, and steel.Eron stood in armor he had never worn before, holding a sword that felt perfectly familiar in his hand.His body moved without instruction. He parried a demon’s claw, and he stepped forward and struck cleanly.The crea
Chapter 67 — The Trial of Light
The Trial Spire stood above the capital like a blade pointed at heaven.White stone spiraled upward into the clouds, carved with prayers that had outlived kingdoms. Bells rang slowly across the city, their heavy sound pressing into bone and memory.The Trial had begun.Trial 1: THE GATHERING Crowds filled the cathedral square below.Nobles stood beneath silk banners.Knights in polished armor formed silent lines.Priests whispered scripture like breath.At the center platform, Eron stood alone.He looked smaller than Kael remembered, not weak just human.Kael watched from the edge of the gathering, positioned deliberately behind the second ring of observers. His posture was relaxed, his expression neutral, his presence muted.Inside, he was calculating everything.The gods were watching.He could feel it like pressure behind the sky.Trial 2: THE STRUCTURE OF THE TRIALValther’s voice echoed across the square.“The Trial of Faith is not a test of strength,” he declared. “It is a test
Chapter 66—Measures Against Heaven
Kael did not sleep.The promise Eron made still echoed inside him not as comfort, but as pressure. Trust was fragile, and dangerous. It created vulnerabilities no seal could suppress.And the gods would exploit it.He sat cross-legged on the cold stone floor of the chamber they had confined him in after the interrogation. The chains were gone for now but the walls were thick with suppression runes, layered and rewritten so many times that the air itself felt bruised.Kael closed his eyes.Think like a king, he told himself, not the tyrant they remembered, or the strategist they feared.Countermeasure One: The SealHe turned inward first.The demonic core was no longer dormant. It pulsed beneath layers of divine restriction, like a heart wrapped in barbed wire, alive, aware, and increasingly impatient.Kael breathed slowly, carefully, guiding his consciousness along the fractures.The seal was not purely divine.That was the lie they told the world.It was a hybrid—god-forged constrain
Chapter 65 — The Promise That Shook Heaven
Eron did not sleep after the Trial faltered.They called it a temporary interruption, a harmless fluctuation in divine alignment. The priests spoke softly, carefully, as if volume itself might fracture something already cracked. They ushered him into sanctified rest chambers layered with sigils meant to calm the mind, to smooth over doubt like a hand brushing wrinkles from silk.It didn’t work.Eron lay awake, staring at the ceiling etched with holy constellations, his chest tight with a feeling he couldn’t name. Not fear. Not anger.Distrust.The memory wouldn’t leave him.Not the grand visions they had intended, those were already blurring, strangely unstable but the small, uninvited fragments that had slipped through at the end.A man kneeling. Blood on his hands, not in triumph, but despair.Eyes that looked at Eron not as an enemy…but as family.Eron pressed his palm to his sternum. His heart hurt in a way prayer couldn’t soothe.“Kael,” he whispered into the dark.The name felt
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