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CHAPTER 159 – THE HAND THAT BURNS

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The courtyard was unrecognizable. Walls lay broken, the sky was a bruised red, and the air trembled under the weight of the Ancient’s presence. Shadows writhed like snakes, fire scorched the stones, and at the center of it all stood Sera, her body transformed, her soul consumed.

Her skin glowed with molten fissures, veins of light and shadow threading through her like cracks in glass. Her hair whipped in a wind that wasn’t there, her eyes molten gold.

And her hand was raised, Pointed at Adrien. The man she had fought for, bled for, loved with the last pieces of her humanity.

Adrien’s body sagged, every bone aching from battle, every drop of blood soaking into the shattered stones. He should not have been standing. Yet he did, shoulders squared, gaze locked on her, chest rising in ragged defiance.

“...Sera.” His voice was hoarse, broken. But steady.

The ground beneath her feet cracked, flames blooming in her wake. The Ancient’s voice coiled inside her chest, vast and terrible.

End him.
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