Author's Note: Unedited Chapter
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But Falco was already there, intercepting him with a shockwave of density-shifting force.
The ground cracked beneath them.
"Go!" Falco yelled without looking back. "We got this!"
Serayna didn't hesitate anymore.
She sprinted toward the monolith.
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The entrance was small, but the inside expanded like a cathedral of shifting stone, humming with ritual energy. Floating glyphs rotated around a central pillar, and beneath them lay the ritual objects:
A fractured starlight shard.
A gravity-core.
A spatial mirror.
A pulsating heartstone taken from an extinct cosmic beast.
Destroying even one would collapse the ritual.
Serayna stepped forward—
"TRAITOR!"
The voice thundered through the chamber.
Her father's.
Vaelkor was not physically present, yet his projection materialized within the ritual circle, formed from mass particles and gravitational echoes.
His eyes blazed.
"You betray your lineage. Your blood. Your destiny."
