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CHAPTER 177 — THE FINAL STORM WITHIN
Author: Rukky
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Adrian floated in darkness. But this wasn’t silence it was a scream. Voices, countless and ancient, echoed through his skull.

The First Storm’s fury. The Heir’s cold laughter. Fragments of gods, ghosts of creation, and the pulse of something new trying to be born all collided in his veins.

“You were never meant to contain us,” thundered the Storm.

“And yet, he does,” the Heir whispered, his tone both cruel and admiring.

“A mortal who swallowed gods.”

Adrian’s hands shook as lightning burst from his fingertips, splitting the void around him into fragments of color crimson, white, and gold. He hovered between them, body flickering like an unstable star.

Every heartbeat was a war. Every breath a negotiation between annihilation and identity. And yet, beneath it all, something human persisted.

When he opened his eyes, he stood in a vast circular field of clouds and flame his own mind made manifest. The ground pulsed like veins of light, and above him swirled two colossal figures:

The Heir
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