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Chapter 45 Extended: When Gods Wake (Contd)
The first tremor struck just after midnight.It began as a whisper—a tremble beneath the Hale Consortium’s fortified tower that vibrated the reinforced obsidian floors. Then came the second. Stronger. A seismic groan of reality protesting the weight of something… ancient.Ethan Hale, standing at the apex of Phoenix Spire, didn’t flinch as the entire skyline of New York shimmered like heat waves. He felt it in his bones, like something clawing out from under his skin.“Elira,” he said, his voice dark with knowing. “He’s waking.”Across the chamber, Elira, still cloaked in the ceremonial garb of the ancient order, stepped forward from the shadows. Her eyes glowed a steady sapphire blue—she too felt it.“Not just him,” she whispered. “The Eater is stirring as well.”In the deepest levels of the tower, far beneath the city’s concrete veins, an ancient containment chamber cracked open. Within it, suspended in golden stasis, lay Veyrion—the god once bound by Ethan’s mother, Althea Hale, in
Chapter 45 Extended: When God’s Wake
Thirty-One Years Ago – The Sacred Valley of ElessirThe valley was alive with song.Spring winds rustled the silver-leafed trees. Crystalline rivers gleamed under the twin moons. It was a land untouched by war, steeped in ancient magic and watched over by a solitary guardian—Selene Hale, the Lady of Elessir.She stood barefoot at the edge of a cliff, her obsidian hair tumbling down her back like a raven's wing. Her eyes—silver like starlight—watched the horizon with a gaze too wise for her age.Behind her, the wind shifted.“Watching the sky again?” came a voice—smooth, deep, and dangerous.Selene turned.Veyrion.He wore a cloak of ember-thread and black steel. Not yet the monster history would remember. Back then, he was still… beautiful.Selene raised a brow. “You always appear when the stars whisper too loudly.”Veyrion smiled. “Perhaps I’ve grown fond of whispers.”They met in secret, beneath moonlit waterfalls and beneath the boughs of trees older than the empires.She, the High
Chapter 45 Extended: Bloodlines and Betrayals
The chamber crackled with energy. Dust lifted in slow motion. Magic twisted in the air like snakes preparing to strike. Ethan Hale stood between the past and the future—one arm protectively around Elira, the other clenched at his side.The Warlord’s presence sucked the air from the room.Clad in obsidian armor laced with pulsating gold runes, the man radiated raw, ancient power. His face was carved with deep scars—some from war, others from self-inflicted rituals. His voice rumbled like distant thunder.“So… you inherited her eyes.”Ethan’s blood turned to ice.“You remember my mother?” he growled.The Warlord stepped forward, boots cracking stone.“I buried her under fire and ruin. She defied me. Just like you will.”Jasmine shifted beside Ethan, dual daggers drawn. “You know this guy?”“Not just ‘this guy,’” Ethan muttered, stepping protectively in front of Elira. “This is Veyrion, the Scourge of Vaelmoor. The warlord who led the massacre of the Western Marches. The man responsible f
Chapter 45 Extended: The Past Redeemed
Phoenix Manor was in chaos.Guards scrambled. Wards screamed. The mirror Aria had been taken through lay shattered on the floor, its silver shards humming with residual magic. The room stank of ozone and blood. And in the center of it all, Ethan Hale stood stone-still—his fists trembling, eyes glowing like dying suns.“She’s gone,” Jasmine said, breathless, her sword drawn. “That portal—I've never seen anything like it. Not even Voidwalkers can manipulate reflections like that.”“She screamed for me,” Ethan whispered, his voice hollow. “She screamed… and I wasn’t fast enough.”Behind him, Riven knelt beside the mirror shards, brushing his fingers over them.“She’s alive,” the Seer said quietly. “But she’s in its realm now. The Umbral Veil.”“The Shadow Between Realms,” Damien muttered. “A place twisted by vengeance and grief. No map leads there. No light enters. And if you stay too long…”“You become part of it,” Jasmine finished. “Forever.”Ethan straightened.“Then I’ll burn my way
Chapter 45: The Past Redeemed
The cold winds of dawn swept over the Hale ancestral estate—a sprawling fortress of stone, memory, and pain. After years of silence, exile, and betrayal, Ethan Hale stood before its iron gates once more—not as the silent son-in-law, nor the God of War, but as a son, a brother… and a man ready to reclaim what was once lost.The iron gates groaned open, revealing the familiar cobblestone path leading to the grand entrance. Ethan's boots echoed with each step, a rhythmic reminder of his return. The manor loomed ahead, its stone façade weathered but imposing.Inside, servants paused mid-task, their eyes widening in recognition."Master Ethan?" an elderly caretaker whispered, his voice trembling.Ethan nodded, offering a faint smile. The caretaker dropped to his knees, tears welling up."Rise," Ethan said gently. "There's work to be done."The corridors whispered memories—childhood laughter, heated arguments, the cold silence of abandonment. Each step deeper into the manor was a confrontat
Chapter 44 Extended: Consolidation of Power
The heavens weren’t just split—they were bleeding.Dark matter poured like smoke from the fissure in the sky, howling with the screams of unborn stars and dead timelines. Time stuttered. Gravity faltered. Color faded.The child—neither born nor unborn—stood at the edge of it all, her body glowing with an unstable brilliance, one foot in reality, one foot in something far older.Jasmine clutched at Ethan’s arm, her voice cracking, “That tear—it’s not just a portal. It’s a wound. Ethan, it’s a wound in reality.”Ethan’s knuckles tightened, skin burning gold, the mark of the God of War blazing down his forearm.“Then it’s time we cauterize it.”But the child turned to him, her gaze piercing through his defiance.“No. It’s too late.”In the place where universes intersected—the Crossroads—a gathering of the Old Ones had formed. Beings who once ruled when reality was soft and pliable, before mortals wrote laws into the stars.They watched the tear in the sky from afar.One, a beast made of
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