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Chapter Seventy: The Hand of Eternity
Author: Pheel-Grip
last update2025-08-27 21:18:59

The world shook as the Sovereign’s hand broke through the rift. It wasn’t flesh, it was a galaxy made tangible. Veins of molten starlight coursed through its fingers, skin formed of storm clouds and obsidian stone.

Each motion bent gravity, pulling mountains upward only to grind them into dust. The hand reached lower.

Jason’s body was screaming. His furnace flared, but he could barely stay upright. The ground under his boots split apart, chunks of earth lifting toward the sky as if being drawn into the Sovereign’s palm.

The child’s cries became a song of fire. Each note was light, each breath a ripple through the battlefield. Jason’s furnace responded with violent spasms, his body burning alive from the inside.

“Jason!” His mother’s voice cut through the roar, raw and breaking. “Do something!”

Jason’s eyes burned with tears. He wanted to tell her he couldn’t, that his body was at its limit, that one more push would kill him.

But the hand was descending. The fingers spread wide, blotti
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