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Chapter 87: The Shattered god
Author: Lucy
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The storm had passed, but the world hadn’t calmed.

Aethern trembled, its spires leaning under the weight of the silence that followed. The rain had washed away the blood, but not the fear — it lingered in every street, every echo, every broken prayer that rose from the ruins.

Kael stood on the highest terrace of the Spire, the city sprawling beneath him in broken beauty. The night air was sharp, filled with the scent of rain and smoke. Lira lay behind him, resting against a half-collapsed pillar, still too weak to move. Her pulse was faint but steady.

He didn’t turn to look at her. He couldn’t.

The Mirror Realm had been destroyed. He could feel it — the fracture in his soul where the False Kael once lived. But in its place, there was a hollow ache, like a wound that refused to close.

You can’t destroy what you are.

The echo of that final whisper followed him, haunting and mocking. Every reflection he caught now — in puddles, in glass, even in his own eyes — flickered, as though uncert
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