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Chapter 40: Beneath the Citadel

Author: Levanter
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2025-10-15 23:59:43

The air beneath the Citadel tasted of metal and memory.

Every breath scraped against the back of my throat, heavy with the scent of burnt incense and ancient blood. Torches lined the curved walls, their flames shivering as if the very stones remembered what had been sealed here before.

Chains of silver hung from the ceiling like inverted roots, each one etched with runes that pulsed faintly—alive, sentient, watching.

I stood in the center of the ritual circle, my wrists bound, my power restrain
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