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CHAPTER 167 — THE PHOENIX IN THE VOID
Author: Rukky
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At first, there was only silence. Then came the heartbeat. Boom. Slow. Deep. Unrelenting.

Emily’s eyes fluttered open, and light spilled across her vision not daylight, not warmth. It was something rawer, like the world’s first sunrise trying to push through an ocean of ash.

She was floating weightless inside a sphere of colorless flame. Threads of molten gold wrapped around her body, pulsing like veins alive with memory.

She breathed or thought she did. Her lungs felt hollow, but the motion comforted her, a habit her spirit refused to abandon.

Her fingers brushed the surface of the cocoon. It burned, then mended instantly, as if reality itself refused to let her go. “Where… am I?”

Her voice echoed, soft, breaking against invisible walls.

The void around her was endless a sea of shifting mist that sometimes glowed, sometimes bled, showing pieces of places she recognized.

Adrian’s face. The First Storm. The Heir’s crown. Each image flickered like lightning trapped in glass. Her chest t
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