The hunt: Blood of the void
"First came the nightmares, then came the blood, now comes the reckoning."
To the ruthless royal court of Pompeii, Valeria is nothing more than a fragile, timid outcast cursed by terrifying visions. They think she is weak. They think she can be broken, but deep down she's their worst nightmare, and immortal in human skin.
When her father drags her and her mother back to the palace, Valeria discovers a sickening betrayal, her mother has been bartered away as a pawn in a dark pact with foreign immortals. Thrust into The Hunt, a barbaric, multi-realm tournament where every breath is bought with slaughter. Valeria must hide her lethal prowess behind a mask of helpless submission.
To survive the arena, she forms a volatile, breathless alliance with Lucius, a dangerous shadow-wielder whose touch feels like holy fire and whose secrets rival her own. Their connection burns with a fierce, forbidden intensity, a fragile lifeline in a world built on deceit. But as the court's darkest lies unravel, Valeria learns the most agonizing truth of all, the man she is falling for may just be the devil in disguise.
Drenched in betrayal, grief, and a love that threatens to consume them both, Valeria must finally drop the victim's mask. She will unleash a dormant, terrifying power capable of burning kingdoms to ash.
Some sacrifices don't make you a hero. They just leave you hollow. So tell me will she save her mother from the dark, or let the world burn?
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Chapter: CHAPTER 5Reading their letters felt like holding a handful of wet ash. Every line dripped with a terrifying, hollow finality, a goodbye written by young men who already considered themselves dead.Weren't they even going to try? I asked myself, tears blinding my vision. But deep down, I knew the brutal truth. How could anyone find the will to fight when the arena demanded you slaughter the very people you once shared meals with? How could you draw a blade against your childhood friends, your own citizens or worst of all, your own brothers? I knew with absolute certainty that if I were placed in that blood-soaked ring, I wouldn't have the nerve to strike a single blow.Desperate to see their faces one last time, I made repeated attempts to slip down into the subterranean dungeons. Every single time, cold iron spears crossed in front of my chest and stony faced guards turned me away. That was when the horrifying realization hit me, they weren't in the palace cellars at all, they weren't even in
Última actualización: 2026-10-30
Chapter: CHAPTER 4I couldn’t bring myself to picture the nightmare unfolding back in the slums as I broke into a full sprint. My legs moved like a blurred tempest, gliding over the cobblestones at a speed I had never reached before in my life. The wind howled against my ears, but it couldn't drown out the frantic, terrifying roar of my own heartbeat.When I reached the grand gates of the palace, the courtyard was a frenzy of activity, servants rushing, armaments clanking, guards taking up positions. I ignored them all. I darted past the entrance, taking the grand marble staircase three steps at a time, my lungs burning as I made a mad dash for my eldest brother’s quarters.I threw the doors open, gasping for breath.It was empty. The bedsheets were pristine, the desk neatly organized, looking as if he had merely stepped out for a quiet evening stroll. A cold, knotting anxiety twisted in my stomach.I sprinted down the corridor to my second brother's room. It was the exact same story, distressingly imma
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Chapter: CHAPTER 3I could feel myself drowning.The freezing water forced its way into my nostrils and flooded my lungs, burning like liquid ice, but panic never came. Instead, I surrendered completely to the violent current, letting the dark rapids drag me wherever they pleased, because I knew these waters.Silly, arrogant royals. They had a majestic waterfall cascading right in their own backyard, yet they had never possessed the curiosity or courage to explore where it led. How utterly pathetic. I had navigated these depths and plunged through these subterranean rapids more times than I could count; I knew every hidden cave, every underwater ledge, and every sharp cranny carved into the roots of these mountains.Yet, despite my knowledge, my body was giving out, I didn't have the strength left to fight the pull. My chest burned, but my heart felt far heavier, a crushing, suffocating weight. I had always known in my gut that they would never let us walk away from this palace in peace, and now my abso
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Chapter: CHAPTER 2It was at this moment that the absolute necessity of the veil hit me, we simply could not coexist in the same world.For centuries, whispers had trickled down through the common folk, rumors that if a mere mortal dared to cross the threshold into the realm of the immortals, the sheer atmospheric magic would rewrite their bloodline. They called those rare souls the ‘Unbound’, beings granted terrifying, raw power upon entry. Yet, it remained a legendary myth, no Unbound had been recorded of lately. Still, I couldn't help but wonder, If the myth was hollow, how on earth had any human ever survived stepping foot onto the other side? Or were there no humans left over there at all?The night wore on, thick and oppressive, but the feast showed no signs of dying down. As the revelry turned increasingly hedonistic, loyal wives quietly ushered the children back to the guest quarters assigned by the King. Soon, the hall was left to the debauchery of men, lords, foreign delegates, and courtiers e
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Chapter: CHAPTER 1I spent half my childhood trying to solve the grim riddle of my parents marriage, everyone knew their love story, in fact the entire village recited it like a gospel, as though repeating it often enough would make it true, as thought it would take back the fact that this princess didn’t have a happy ending. But every time I heard the tale of a princess who feel in love with a commoner and made him a prince, then a king, I wondered why the story ended there, of course there was more to it, if only they knew the actual truth, of what she had endured and the sacrifices she had to make and not the fabricated lie that was being broadcasted."Valeria, I hope you’re ready and not lost in your head again," my mother’s gentle voice broke through the fog of my thoughts. She adjusted her shawl, watching me with a mix of affection and mild exasperation "Sometimes I honestly wonder if you daydream on purpose just to escape the world.""Don’t worry Mum, I’m completely ready," I replied, smoothing o
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