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THE SILENCE AFTER
Chapter 189 :The collapse didn’t roar.It sighed.A deep, tired sound rolled across the air behind them, like the universe finally letting go of a breath it had been holding too long. Billy twisted around just in time to see the last remnants of the gateway fold inward on themselves.Light bent.Space pinched.And then—nothing.No explosion. No flare of energy.Just absence.The place where the rift had been was now empty sky and scorched ground, as if it had never existed at all. No tear. No echo. No lingering vibration. Reality had sealed the wound cleanly, with brutal efficiency.Billy stared at it.His mind refused to accept the finality.He waited for the pull.The whisper.Anything.But the bond stayed quiet.Dead space filled his chest, heavy and suffocating.Owen broke the silence first. “That’s it,” he said quietly. “It’s gone.”Billy didn’t respond.Tyla shifted beside him, pushing herself upright with visible effort. Her movements were slow, careful, like she didn’t fully
WHAT BREAKS, WHAT REMAINS
Chapter 188 :The world didn’t snap back into place.It shed itself.Reality peeled away in slow, grinding layers, like skin tearing from bone. The rift space around them began to dissolve, not with violence but with exhaustion—as if the universe itself had finally run out of strength to hold this place together.Billy felt it first in his chest.The relic-bond spasmed.Not the sharp, commanding pull it used to exert—but something erratic, wounded. It throbbed unevenly, sending jagged pulses through his ribs, like a heart that no longer remembered its rhythm.He sucked in a breath and nearly screamed.Pain flared, hot and invasive, radiating outward from the bond mark beneath his collarbone. His muscles locked, fingers curling into the dirt as something inside him began to tear loose.Owen dropped beside him immediately. “Billy—hey—look at me. Stay with us.”Billy couldn’t answer.The bond convulsed again, and this time it dragged memories with it.Not visions.Fragments.Unfinished e
THE CHOICE THAT BREAKS HIM
Chapter 187 :The gateway screamed.There was no other word for it.As Billy staggered through the collapsing rift with Tyla in his arms, the dimensional breach behind them howled like something alive being torn apart. Light fractured into jagged veins across the air, stretching outward from the core of the gateway, trying—desperately—to anchor itself.It wanted Billy.The relic-bond pulsed violently in his chest, dragging at him with magnetic force. Every step away from the gateway felt like ripping his bones from their sockets. His vision blurred, streaks of alien constellations burning behind his eyes.Come back, the bond urged.Finish it. Complete it.Billy gritted his teeth, sweat pouring down his face. Tyla stirred weakly in his arms, a soft sound escaping her lips—a breath that was too shallow, too fragile.That sound cut through everything.He adjusted his grip, cradling her closer as Owen ran ahead, shouting directions through the chaos.“The rift is collapsing asymmetrically
THE COST OF STAYING
Chapter 186 :The corridor didn’t give them time to breathe.The moment the shadow pulled back, the rift itself began to collapse inward—walls folding like broken ribs, space grinding against space. Gravity twisted sideways, then inverted, then vanished altogether.Billy stumbled as the ground vanished beneath his feet.The bond flared.Too hard.Pain ripped through him, sharp and immediate, like something inside his chest tearing loose. Power surged without permission, flooding his limbs, his spine, his skull. He screamed as the energy misfired, arcing wildly into the corridor.The blast missed the shadow entirely.Instead, it shattered the stabilizing runes embedded in the rift walls.Owen swore violently. “Billy—stop! You’re tearing it apart!”“I’m trying!” Billy shouted back, but the truth terrified him—He wasn’t in control anymore.The relic-bond had shifted from conduit to predator. It didn’t respond to will; it reacted to fear, to instinct, to desperation. And right now, Billy
FRACTURE LINES
Chapter 185 :Billy barely felt his feet hit solid ground before the world lurched.Not physically—internally.The moment they crossed out of the collapsing prison dimension, something inside him cracked open. The relic-bond surged, then recoiled, then surged again, like a damaged engine misfiring under pressure. Power flooded him in uneven bursts, violent and unpredictable.He dropped to one knee, gasping.Tyla spun around immediately. “Billy—”“I’m fine,” he said too quickly, teeth clenched. The lie tasted bitter. His hands were shaking uncontrollably, veins glowing faintly beneath his skin before dimming again. Heat rushed through him, followed by an icy hollow that made his vision blur.Owen staggered to a stop nearby, leaning heavily on a fractured pillar. “That didn’t look fine.”Billy tried to stand fully. His legs buckled.Tyla caught him before he hit the ground. The contact sent a jolt through both of them—sharp, electric, intimate. She sucked in a breath, eyes widening.“Yo
WHEN THE SHADOW STRIKES
Chapter 184 :The shadow didn’t rush them.That was the first thing Billy noticed—and the thing that scared him the most.It moved slowly, deliberately, as if it already knew the outcome and was simply allowing time to stretch so they could feel it coming. The prison dimension groaned under its presence, the fractured ground folding inward like weakened bone. Light bled out of the air, dimming until everything felt submerged, heavy, wrong.Tyla tightened her grip on Billy’s shoulders. “Can you stand?”Billy nodded, even though his legs felt like they didn’t belong to him anymore. Every nerve in his body screamed, not with pain exactly, but with warning. The relic-bond pulsed weakly now, subdued after his last outburst—but not gone. Never gone.“I can move,” he said. “I just… don’t know how much control I have left.”Owen raised his weapon, jaw tight. “Then don’t try to be clever. We buy time. That’s it.”The shadow tilted its head.It noticed.A ripple passed through its form, like a
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