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Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-One: The Ember Prison
Jason awoke screaming. The world around him was not his own. No abyss, no broken battlefield, no Aria. Only fire.He stood in a vast chamber of molten light, its walls breathing with heat as though the stone itself were alive. Flames licked across black iron bars that bent and twisted into the shape of a cage.The floor beneath his feet was searing white ash, his boots sinking into it as though he were standing on the burned remains of a thousand lifetimes. And everywhere, everywhere, he felt chains.Not the great links that bound the ancient in the abyss, but smaller, subtler cords, each one glowing with the faint silver hue of his own ember.They coiled around his arms, his chest, his throat, tethering him to the cage. Every breath he took was ragged, choked with smoke. The air tasted like despair.Jason staggered forward, his hands clutching at the bindings, but the moment his fingers touched the glowing chains, agony ripped through him.His fire recoiled, shattering his focus. He
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty: Threads of Fire
The abyss quaked like a living thing. Aria’s knees buckled as she clutched Jason’s body to her chest, his skin glowing with cracks of silver light, as though molten fire was about to spill from within him.Every scream that tore from his throat shredded her heart raw.“Stay with me,” she whispered, pressing her forehead against his burning skin, ignoring how it seared her flesh. “Please, Jason. Don’t let him take you.”All around, the shadows shrieked. The stolen fragment of Jason’s ember pulsed from deep within the abyss, carried in the ancient’s possession, and the creatures responded like beasts smelling blood. They surged toward him in endless waves, chains rattling, hollow eyes burning.Aria’s wings flared, silver fire storming outward to burn the nearest shadows into ash. Her blade whirled, cleaving chains before they wrapped around Jason’s broken body.But she was tiring. Already her breath rasped, her fire flickered. She could not keep this up forever. “Jason,” she said again,
Chapter One Hundred and Nineteen: The Soul-Duel
Jason awoke to fire. Not the comforting warmth of his ember, nor the wild blaze of battle, but a suffocating inferno that burned without heat, endless and consuming.Chains coiled like serpents through the void, their clinking echoes sounding like war drums. And across from him stood a man.Tall, broad-shouldered, with hair like living flame cascading down his back, his eyes molten gold. His body glowed with fire so pure it bent the darkness itself, unyielding and eternal.There were no hollows in his gaze, no rot, no chains digging into his flesh. This was the ancient, not as the abyss had twisted him, but as he once was. The first firebearer.Jason staggered back, his fists flaring instinctively, though his flame flickered weakly against the other’s brilliance. “You,” Jason whispered.The man smiled, calm and cruel. “Me. And soon, you.”The battlefield erupted before Jason could blink. The first firebearer moved like lightning, a single step cracking the chains around them. His fist
Chapter One Hundred and Eighteen: The Shattered Chain
The abyss shook as the second chain cracked. A sound like the world splitting apart boomed across the black lake, every echo hammering Jason’s skull.The ancient firebearer stirred again, its massive body rippling as the bindings trembled, runes blazing like dying stars.Jason staggered, blood streaming from his nose, his ember sputtering like a candle about to die. Aria caught his arm, dragging him upright, her silver wings flaring weakly against the storm of abyss-fire rising around them.“Jason, it’s breaking!” she cried over the roar. “If we don’t stop it now”The rest of her words drowned in another detonation as the chain split further, a spiderweb of cracks racing across its length.The shadows howled in triumph, surging forward as though empowered by the chain’s undoing. Jason raised his fists, but his fire flickered. His chest felt like it was collapsing inward. Still, he refused to kneel.“Then we stop it,” he rasped, his voice breaking but his will unyielding. “Even if it k
Chapter One Hundred and Seventeen: The Ancient’s Whisper
The gate’s shriek faded into silence. And in that silence, the chained ancient firebearer stirred. Jason could hardly breathe.The figure towered above him like a mountain, every limb bound in chains thicker than towers, each glowing with runes of abyss-fire. Its hollow eyes opened, twin wells of darkness that pulled at his ember like a tide.The ancient inhaled. The abyss inhaled with it. Jason’s knees buckled, his fire sputtering violently in his chest as though about to be ripped free. His vision blurred. He clutched his ribcage, screaming silently as his ember flickered and cracked.Aria’s silver light flared beside him, steadying him. “Jason! Stay with me!” Her hand gripped his shoulder, her silver blaze forcing a wedge between him and the abyss’s pull.But even her brilliance trembled, sparks snapping from her wings. Then the voice came. Not spoken, but inside them. It was a whisper and a roar, an echo that made Jason’s bones vibrate, his thoughts splinter.“At last… another emb
Chapter One Hundred and Sixteen: The Gate of Chains
The first of the chained firebearers lunged. Jason barely had time to raise his arms before the creature’s fist, burning black with abyss-fire, smashed into his guard.The impact sent him skidding across the fractured platform, stone shattering under his heels. His bones rattled, his fire flickered and another came, chains snapping as it dove for him with hollow, lifeless eyes.“Jason!” Aria’s voice cut through the storm. Her silver blaze struck downward, cleaving the second firebearer in half. The creature burst into a cloud of black flame, only for two more to rise from the lake and crawl onto the ruins.Jason pushed himself to his feet, chest heaving, his fists trembling with fading fire. He counted the shadows , five, then ten, then twenty. More kept rising, each bound by chains that glowed faintly with the abyss’s pulse. Each one radiated fragments of power that made his skin crawl.They weren’t just monsters. They had been firebearers once. Jason’s jaw clenched, grief stabbing
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