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Chapter 89 — The Memory That Was Not His
Eron woke before dawn, but he did not recognize the ceiling above him. He lay still for several long seconds, staring at the pale stone arches overhead. The chamber felt familiar, yet distant, as though he were remembering it rather than inhabiting it. Thin curtains moved gently in the early morning air, and the faint scent of incense lingered near the doorway.He knew this room, but it belonged to the cathedral. Yet something inside him insisted that he had woken somewhere else. Eron pushed himself upright slowly, his body felt different, not weaker, not stronger, it felt different.He pressed his palm against his chest where the divine sigil rested beneath his skin. The mark pulsed once in response, warm and steady.“Where am I?” he murmured. The question was unnecessary, but it felt necessary. Footsteps approached the door and Valther entered quietly.“You are awake,” he said.Eron looked at him.“Yes,” he replied.Valther studied his expression.“You seem disoriented,” Valther observ
Chapter 88 — The Cost of Staying
The decree reached Kael before the ink had fully dried. He stood on a narrow ridge overlooking a barren stretch of plains when he felt the shift in the world’s attention. The air carried a faint tremor of divine authority, the kind that accompanied official judgment. It moved like an invisible wave across the continent, imprinting law into the fabric of society.Kael closed his eyes. He did not need to hear the words spoken aloud to know what they contained. House Varyn dissolved, titles revoked, and lands seized.Kael Varyn was declared an enemy of the divine order, and Execution authorized on sight. He exhaled slowly, but his chest tightened rather than eased.“My mother,” he murmured. He had felt the rupture in their connection hours earlier. He had felt something severed and reshaped. Now he understood. She had sacrificed her influence, she had severed the political shield that once protected him, and she had likely done it to prevent the Church from using the estate as leverage.
Chapter 87 — The Weight of a Name
The demonic eye beneath House Varyn did not blink. It opened slowly in the fractured darkness below the estate, massive and ancient, its pupil vertical and black as a void without stars. Cracks spread across the underground chamber walls as dust and fragments of stone fell into the abyss surrounding it.Above, in the grand hall, the marble floor continued to split. Servants screamed, and Knights raised their weapons.The High Inquisitor lifted her staff and released a burst of golden light into the widening fracture, but the light did not close it. The divine energy merely illuminated what was already there.Eron stood frozen, his chest burning.“It is old,” he said quietly.Valther pulled him back.“Yes,” Valther replied, his voice tight. “It is older than this house.”Lady Seris Varyn did not step away.She stood directly above the fracture, her gaze steady despite the trembling ground.“I told him it would not hold forever,” she whispered.The High Inquisitor turned sharply.“You k
Chapter 86 — The House Under Shadow
Morning came slowly to House Varyn. The estate stood on the western edge of the capital, surrounded by stone walls and old cedar trees that had grown there for generations. Servants moved quietly through the halls, unaware that the air itself carried tension like a distant storm.Inside his private chamber, Kael’s mother sat at a writing desk near the window.Lady Seris Varyn had not slept. She held a sealed letter in her hand, turning it slowly between her fingers as sunlight crept across the wooden floor. The wax bore the unmistakable crest of the Church.She already knew what it contained. She had known the moment the messenger arrived at dawn. A soft knock came at the door. “Enter,” she said.A steward stepped inside and bowed. “My lady, Church officials have arrived at the outer gate,” he said.Seris closed her eyes briefly.“So it begins,” she replied.At the estate gates, six Church knights stood beside two inquisitors dressed in pale ceremonial robes. Their presence alone cause
Chapter 85 — The Distance Between Faith and Truth
The forest clearing remained quiet long after Kael vanished. Wind moved gently through the trees, but no one spoke. The Church knights stood uncertainly, their formation broken by what they had witnessed. The inquisitors whispered among themselves, recording every detail of the confrontation.Eron lay on the grass, staring at the space where Kael had stood.His chest still hurts.The divine sigil burned steadily beneath his skin, glowing through the thin fabric of his shirt. Each pulse felt like a hand tugging at his soul.Valther approached slowly.“Eron,” he said.Eron did not respond immediately.Valther knelt beside him.“Can you stand?” Valther asked.Eron finally looked at him.“Yes,” Eron replied, though his voice was weak.Valther helped him sit upright.“You should not have moved during divine awakening,” Valther said gently.Eron shook his head.“I could not let them take him,” Eron replied.Valther sighed.“He is already gone,” Valther said.Eron’s eyes hardened slightly.“
Chapter 84 — Branded Heretic
The forest clearing became silent after Kael stopped running. Church knights approached slowly through the trees, forming a tightening circle around him and Eron. Their armor reflected the faint gold light filtering down from the heavens, and their weapons trembled in their hands despite their training.Kael stood still. Eron remained in his arms, weak but awake and the divine glow in the sky flickered like a watchful eye. No one moved first. Valther stepped forward cautiously. “Kael,” he said. “Do not make this worse.”Kael’s voice was steady.“You already know I cannot surrender,” Kael replied.Valther’s expression hardened with pain rather than anger.“The Church must protect the hero,” Valther said.Kael answered immediately.“That is exactly what I am doing.”Eron shifted weakly.“Father Valther… please,” Eron said. Valther’s gaze softened for a moment, but it did not last.“I believe you trust him,” Valther said to Eron. “But trust alone cannot silence what we witnessed.”Eron tried
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