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Chapter 12: The Weight Behind the Mask
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Echoes of Moonfire Chapter 87: The Face of Death
~SerikMy hands were shackled, glowing with a dull blue rune magic I hadn’t seen before. It itched where it touched my skin, like it wasn’t meant to restrain mortals, but gods.Two guards flanked me, their forms shimmering faintly in the swirling dusk. We were walking—no, being marched—through the core of the divine realm, and every step brought me closer to the one place I never wanted to see.Veyrith’s castle.The underworld god. The Devourer of Echoes. The First Curse. He wasn’t the underworld god here yet but that didn’t make him any less scarier.I swallowed hard. My feet felt heavy, like the air was thickening with each step.The stories I read—even the censored ones—had painted him as the darkest of all the gods. Not just because he ruled death, but because he loved it. Loved the art of suffering. They said it took all the gods together to trap him in the underworld, bound in chains forged from starlight and sacrifice. Even then, his screams burned the skies for a hundred years
Echoes of Moonfire Chapter 86: The Ice Between Us
~Selene“Bram!”“Bram, answer us if you can hear!”Kira sent a pulse of blue light spinning through the trees, the arcane ring shimmering before it vanished into the snowy wind. Nothing. Not even an echo. I tried again, whispering a location incantation beneath my breath. The spell rippled outward in fine tendrils, searching the weave of magic in the air.Nothing.Until—A flicker.I gasped. “I found him.”Everyone turned.“His signature,” I said, narrowing my eyes as the magic responded. “It’s faint—but it’s coming from the south. Far south. The ice wastes.”Reed’s jaw tightened. “That’s an icy desert. No living creature goes there willingly. Not even our patrols. There’s nothing there but frost and wind.”“He’s there,” I said. “Or at least… something that carries his energy signature.”Reed looked toward the horizon, where snow fell like ash. “I can’t follow you into the wastes. But if things go wrong—send a signal, and I will send help.” His voice was grim. “Good luck.”We nodded.
Echoes of Moonfire Chapter 85: Before the Divide
~SerikThe sky here was wrong.It wasn’t blue. Not entirely. It shifted from gold to amethyst in slow, swirling gradients—as if the world couldn’t decide whether it was day or night. Three moons hovered in the sky, layered like bruises over the horizon. One full and pale, one crescent and crimson, and the third fractured—glowing with cracks like it had been struck by something it couldn’t survive.This wasn’t my world.It was older. Wilder. Real in a way that made everything else feel like a shadow. Everything here felt like it fell out of my history book. All the things that I’d read about the world before the creation was here and I still couldn’t recognize most of them.I walked through the strange woods slowly, taking it all in. Trees towered high, their leaves glimmering like starlight caught in glass. Flowers hummed when I passed. Not sang. Hummed—low and harmonic, like they were warning the earth I didn’t belong here.And they were right.As I crested a hill, the land spread ou
Echoes of Moonfire Chapter 84: The Vanishing Trail
~SeleneThey say when the moon is high and the winds go quiet, the veil between realms thins. That’s when the world feels wrong—like something ancient is breathing just beyond sight, watching, waiting. Most people dismiss that feeling.But not mages.We know better.Alpha Aeron stood in the center of the war room, hands clasped behind his back, cloak rippling faintly from the open balcony. He looked like a statue carved from stormclouds—solemn, unreadable. I’d known him since I was a girl apprenticing under Master Theon, and even then, Aeron had a presence that filled the room before he ever spoke.“I won’t lie to you,” he said, voice clipped. “The risk is real. But the danger of not helping Lunar is greater. If we don’t act, if we don’t try—then the alliance breaks. They turn on us and given our current situation, we don’t stand a chance against them. I’m not asking you to go because I trust him. I’m asking you to go because I don’t want Obsidian to die.”We understood what he was tr
Echoes of Moonfire Chapter 83: The Godkiller
~SerikThe last thing I remember was being beaten within an inch of my life by a Lunar Sentient. She’d snarled something to Tamar—told him to bring her a pendant if he wanted to see me alive again.The thing was, Tamar didn’t have the pendant.I did.But she didn’t know that.She dragged me into a pocket dimension—one of those cursed in-between realms suspended outside space and time, a place where light bends wrong and the air hums like it’s trying to speak. She paced like a caged beast while I sat chained and gagged, blood drying down the side of my face. She kept waiting for Tamar to send a signal. Some message. Some token of surrender so she’ll go out and collect the pendant from him.I knew he never would. Not because he didn’t want to save me—he just couldn’t. The pendant was right here. Not in a box. Not buried beneath some shrine. Right here.With me.I didn’t know why I had it. Or how. I just knew it had always been with me. Since childhood. Like a second skin. And I knew eno
Echoes of Moonfire Chapter 82: Lunar’s disappearance
~AeronI followed my butler in silence.The hallway to the throne room was long, flanked by silver sconces and walls still streaked with faint burn marks. The stone floors had been recently scrubbed, but some things couldn’t be erased. War leaves residue. In the corners. In the air. In the bones.My boots echoed faintly as I walked. Each step sounded louder than it should have—a drumbeat against silence.I didn’t know who I was going to meet.Important, the butler had said. Not urgent. Not dangerous. Just… important. But I’d learned by now that importance could mean anything from a royal emissary to a harbinger of doom.My mind drifted as I walked, thoughts circling like vultures.The corridor opened up into the main chamber, sunlight pooling in through the high arching windows. Gold and obsidian banners hung from the pillars. The throne room had been rebuilt with fewer jewels and more steel. Fewer ornaments. More purpose.My eyes found him instantly.Reed.He stood casually near the
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