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A week had passed since the voice in the Plateau whispered from beneath the world.And every night since, Valric had dreamed of fire and frost—of children who bore stars in their skin and screamed names he could not remember.He sat by the campfire now, eyes darkened by sleepless nights. Clara returned from her watch, dusted with ash.“They’ve started appearing in the north too,” she said. “Villagers report flickers in the sky, shadows walking through walls, and children speaking in languages no one’s taught them.”Valric didn’t look up. “They’re being pulled awake—same way I was.”Clara knelt beside him. “By what?”A pause. Then Valric’s voice, low. “By a name.”Clara frowned. “Whose?”Valric finally met her gaze. “Mine.”Lightning cracked in the distance, silent and white.“The Hollow Star was shattered,” he continued. “And every fragment—every one of us—was scattered across dying realms. But the seed left inside me… it was the core. It remembers. And now they’re responding to it. T
The Wise?
One Week Later – The Concord CitadelThe skies above the Citadel were no longer bruised and red. For the first time in years, sunlight bathed the high towers and scorched plains below. Refugees from the outer provinces had begun to return, and the Concord’s banners—once blackened in mourning—fluttered gold again.But the peace was uneasy. What they had destroyed was not merely a weapon. It was a god-shaped wound in the world. And what emerged from its heart… was still a question without an answer.In the council chamber, murmurs fell silent as Brown entered, followed closely by Valric and Clara.“Is this wise?” Clara whispered.Brown gave a dry smile. “Nothing about this has ever been wise.”Valric stood taller now. The scars on his skin still pulsed faintly with silver light—echoes of the Hollow Star’s core now embedded in his soul. He could feel time stretching differently around him, like he existed half a breath out of sync with the world.Councilor Derren rose, frowning. “General
Its Over
The sigils Clara cast began to crackle—light rending through the veil between realms.One by one, portals tore open across the fractured sky.From the north came Lady Vernis of the Silver Drakes, riding a serpent woven of wind and scales. Her cry shattered a Rift-born wraith before it could reach the barricade.From the desert realm of Tuhrr, General Akim, arm ablaze in phoenix flame, stepped through with his seven-bladed staff and an army of Sunwalkers behind him.And from the floating citadel of Seran’dale, the elusive Chrono Sisters arrived—three twins with time flowing backward in their eyes. They raised their palms, slowing the Hollow Star’s descent with layers of suspended seconds.Clara dropped to one knee, her body steaming from the magic she channeled.“They came…” she gasped, eyes glistening.Kael helped her up, grinning despite the blood on his brow. “Of course they did. You called, and they remembered the war we already won together.”On the frontlines, Brown and Valric ca
Blinked Out
“Dad…” Valric whispered.Behind them, Kael cried out—thrown backward by a jagged chain.The crowned one was closing in.Brown’s grip tightened on his sword, but before he could move, Valric sat up slowly—blood dripping from his nose, but his aura beginning to burn once more.“No one takes me,” he growled. “Not anymore.”Then—he stood.And the Riftlight returned. But this time… it obeyed him.His voice rang out, stronger now. “I am Valric, son of Brown. Not a weapon. Not a curse. And you will not take me.”The crowned one halted mid-step, sensing the shift.Valric raised a hand—and for the first time, the Bastion obeyed without rage. Pure, controlled energy spiraled around him, golden mixed with violet, forming sigils in the air.Clara whispered, astonished, “He’s choosing his own power…”Brown smiled, eyes wet with pride. “That’s my boy.”Valric stepped forward, flames rising behind him. “This ends now.”Valric took another step forward, eyes locked on the crowned one. The once chaoti
Dad?
Valric raised both hands, and from the depths of his chest, the Rift roared.A vortex opened above him — not as wild as before, but focused. Controlled. He reached inside it, drew power, and hurled a spear of pure shadowlight at the Echo’s center.The creature screamed — its thousand eyes turning inward in agony — as the spear tore through its shifting form, pinning it to the charred earth.Brown was on it in a heartbeat. With a cry that sounded like both fury and release, he drove his sword deep into the core of the creature, flames erupting in all directions.The Echo convulsed. It tried to retreat — splitting itself into a thousand smaller shapes — but Clara was already weaving her final spell.A seal of radiant light circled the battlefield. Ancient, divine — it pulsed with the will of the world itself.“By flame and oath,” Clara whispered, “you are banished.”The seal collapsed inward.The Echo gave one final shriek — a sound of endless hunger denied — and vanished in a blink of
The Echo
Valric’s breath came in ragged bursts. The storm of power he’d unleashed still swirled around him, laced with dark lightning and remnants of the Rift. The earth itself groaned under his feet, veins of molten magic pulsing beneath the stone.Brown stood just beyond the circle of destruction—burned, bruised, but unshaken.“I don’t want your pity,” Valric said, his voice low now, almost childlike under the fury. “Or your forgiveness. I want to stop hurting.”Brown’s eyes glistened. “Then let me stand beside you.”“You don’t understand—!” Valric’s voice cracked as another surge of unstable energy flared from his body. “Every breath I take feels like it doesn't belong to me! My skin, my blood—this power—it screams!”He clutched his chest, falling to one knee as the shadows around him spasmed and flared.“I didn’t ask to become this monster,” he hissed. “But they made me one. You left me, and they turned me into this!”Brown dropped his sword.The clatter echoed like a death knell.Then, wi
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