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Chapter 82. The Beast of Roots
The throne split apart with a deafening crack. Roots twisted and snapped as something enormous pulled itself free.The Gardener’s beast was not one form. There were many. Arms of stone. Wings of bone. Faces screaming across its chest. A tail made of roots and fire that whipped across the sky.The beast rose higher and higher until its head scraped the dome of green light above them. Its eyes burned like black suns, and every breath it exhaled sent waves of death across the ground.Kai and Amara stood small beneath it. Their light was bright, but it looked fragile compared to the endless size of the monster.The Gardener’s voice echoed from inside the beast, deep and broken. “This is eternity. This is what you cannot kill. This is every life, every soul, every failure. You will drown in it.”The beast roared, shaking the whole world. Kai’s chest felt like it would burst. The sheer weight of the beast’s presence pressed on him like a mountain. His sword trembled in his hand.Amara’s glo
Chapter 81. The Throne of Roots
The world shook as the Gardener rose from his throne of roots. He was tall. Taller than any man. His body looked like it was woven from branches and vines, his skin a shifting mass of bark and stone. His crown of green fire burned high, and his eyes were endless holes, black as death.The ground trembled under every step he took. Faces twisted in agony across his chest, thousands of souls trapped in his body, their screams leaking into the air like wind.Kai and Amara stood side by side, gripping each other’s hands, their light shining faint but steady. Kai whispered, “So this is him.”Amara’s voice shook. “The one behind everything.”The Gardener’s voice thundered like storm clouds: “You dare to reach me. You dare to burn through my prison. Foolish heirs. Do you not see? You are mine already. You were mine from the moment you were born.”Kai felt the words crawl into his chest, heavy and suffocating. His father’s voice echoed inside him: “You’ll never be enough.”The faces in the G
Chapter 80. The Prison of Memory
Kai and Amara fell through blackness. The air screamed past them, cold and endless, as if the abyss had no bottom. Their hands clung to each other, the only anchor in the void. Amara’s voice shook. “Kai, where are we going?”He tightened his grip. “Wherever he wants us. But we don’t let go.”Her light flickered weakly around them, small against the endless dark. Kai could feel her trembling, not from the wind but from fear.He pulled her closer. “We’re still together. That means he hasn’t won yet.” Finally, the fall ended.They hit the ground hard, landing on black stone. The impact echoed like thunder.Kai groaned, forcing himself up. His sword lay beside him. Amara sat up slowly, her glow faint but alive. They looked around. The place was not empty.It was a hall. Long, endless, with walls made of shifting mirrors, but these mirrors didn’t show their reflections.They showed their memories. Kai froze when he saw the first one. His father stood inside the glass, glaring at him, voice
Chapter 79. The Enemy Within
The creature stepped closer. It wore half of Kai’s face, stern and cold, the other half Amara’s, soft and glowing. Its body was tall, twisted with roots and fire, its hands clutching a sword of living wood wrapped in green flame.Its eyes glowed with both their colors, gold and green, yet burned with hunger. It grinned. The half of its mouth that was Amara’s whispered: “Love is weakness.”The half that was Kai’s thundered: “Trust is death.”Amara gasped, clutching Kai’s arm. “It… it’s us.”Kai tightened his grip on his sword. His jaw locked. “No. It’s not us. It’s him. Just another trick.”But deep in his chest, he felt the truth. This thing was made from pieces of them, their fears, their doubts, their sins, and it was alive.The hybrid rushed forward with inhuman speed. Its blade struck Kai’s, golden sparks flying. The ground cracked beneath them.Kai grunted, shoving back. But the hybrid’s strength was monstrous, far beyond his own.Amara raised her hands, summoning light, sending
Chapter 78. The Prison of Roots
There was no ground, no sky, no light. Kai and Amara fell endlessly, clinging to each other. Their fused glow flickered in the dark, gold tangled with green.His heart pounded. His lungs burned. But he would not let go. Amara’s hair floated around her face. Her eyes glowed faintly, trembling. “Kai… where are we?”He forced his voice steady. “Inside him. Inside the Gardener’s prison.”The void around them pulsed. Faces flickered in the dark, faces they knew, faces they feared, faces of the dead.Whispers clawed at their ears. “You are nothing. You are broken. She will betray you. He will leave you.”Amara clutched him tighter. “Don’t listen. It’s not real.” But the whispers grew louder.Suddenly, their fall ended. They hit the ground hard. Except it wasn’t ground. It was bone. Thousands of bones, fused together into a pale white plain. Skulls stared up at them. Empty eye sockets. Open mouths. Amara staggered back, her hand over her mouth. “Oh, God.”Kai steadied her. His sword flicker
Chapter 77. The Blade Between Them
The blade cut through the air, glowing bright gold. Amara shut her eyes, tears falling. The soldier screamed her name. The Gardener laughed with thunder.But at the last second, Kai twisted his wrists.The blade did not cut Amara. It drove instead into the roots beneath her feet.The ground screamed, a sound like thousands of mouths tearing open. Green fire burst upward, clashing with his golden light.The chamber shook violently. Kai held the sword with both hands, teeth clenched, pouring everything he had into the strike. “Not her,” he growled. “Never her.”The Gardener roared. “Fool! You cannot cut me without cutting her!”But for the first time, the roots split. Amara’s body jolted as if shocked. She cried out, clutching her chest. “Kai, it’s burning, he’s burning through me, ”Kai gritted his teeth, refusing to let go of the blade. “Then burn with me. Don’t let him win.”The soldier stumbled closer, eyes wide. “Crest, what are you doing?”Kai shouted through the roar of fire and r
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