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CHAPTER 23 - The Price of Power

Author: Lila Williams
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Marcus's fear lasted exactly three seconds before his expression shifted to something far more unsettling—resignation mixed with dark amusement.

"You think you have won," he said, blood trickling from his nose as my void-touched power pressed against him. "You think integrating the entity makes you stronger than the cult. But you still don't understand what you have become."

"Enlighten me." I let the silver-black energy dance across my fingertips, reality warping around each movement.

"You are not their executioner, Aria. You are their evolution." Marcus's smile was terrible. "The Old Ones never wanted to consume this reality. They wanted to transform it. And you—a Luna who has conquered the void instead of being consumed by it—you are exactly what they have been waiting for."

Drake's hand found my shoulder, his dual bond pulsing with warning. Through it, I felt his memories of watching his timeline fall to similar corruption—heroes who thought they had won, only to discover they had
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