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Chapter Seventy : The Gate That Breathes
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Incubus Reborn: Sleepless promise Chapter Seventy : The Gate That Breathes
The sound of pursuit grew sharper, claws hammering the wall, scraping closer. Every footfall carried more weight than the last. Lucian kept his blade ready, his breath steady, though his chest ached with the effort.“There,” Seris whispered suddenly.He followed her gaze. At the end of the causeway, a shape loomed out of the dark. It wasn’t stone. It shimmered faintly, its surface rippling as though it were made of water caught in constant motion. The gate.“That is no door,” Riven said.“It is the only way forward,” Seris told him.The whispers behind them grew louder, the creatures pressing faster. Their eyes flared in the dark like lanterns carried by a hundred hands.Mara’s voice shook. “If it is a trap—”Lucian cut her off. “If it is, we spring it. Better than being torn apart out here.”They reached the base of the gate. Up close it pulsed, faint as a heartbeat. The air around it was colder, sharper, every breath biting in their lungs.Seris lifted her hands. “I can open it. But
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The wall curved ahead of them, stone slick with damp and broken in places where roots had pushed through centuries ago. Their boots slapped against the surface in uneven rhythm, the sound carrying too clearly into the open dark around them. No one spoke at first. They all knew the silence was thinner now, alive with something moving just out of sight.Lucian kept his blade raised, even though his arm ached from the last fight. He wanted the weight in his hand, the reminder that he could still cut, still defend. Every time he blinked he saw the thing’s face again, if it could be called a face, and the memory of its soundless scream lingered in his bones.Astra broke the silence. “It is not gone.”“No,” Cael said, his voice flat. “It is not.”Riven spat over the edge. The spittle was whipped away into blackness before it could fall far. “Then it is waiting. Watching. Maybe learning.”Seris glanced at him. “Learning what?”“How to kill us better next time,” he said.Mara stumbled but cau
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The sound was like stone breaking under impossible weight, but deeper, as if the floor of the world itself had splintered. Everyone on the bridge felt it, a vibration in the metal beneath their boots.Lucian risked a glance over his shoulder. The direction they had come from was swallowed in blackness, but the darkness seemed to be moving — not drifting like mist, but rolling forward like a tide.“Move!” he shouted.Riven didn’t even look back. He hacked into the first creature on the bridge, the blade of his axe biting deep into its shoulder. It didn’t scream. It didn’t bleed. It simply shuddered, leaned forward, and pushed against the wound like it meant to crawl inside him.Astra was already loosing bolts from her crossbow, each one striking with a hiss of silver in the faint light. One of the creatures staggered, limbs spasming, before it pitched sideways and tumbled into the void.Cael held the center of the formation, his sword a wall of steel in the cramped space. Every time on
Incubus Reborn: Sleepless promise Chapter Sixty-seven: Aftershocks
The scorch mark on the floor was still warm. Lucian crouched beside it, running his fingers over the blackened stone.“That was too close,” he said quietly.“Too close is putting it politely,” Riven replied. “We were a hair away from being dinner.”Mara sat cross-legged against the wall, head lowered. Sweat dripped from her hairline, and her breathing was shallow.Cael knelt in front of her. “Talk to me. How bad?”“I burned through everything I had,” she said without lifting her head. “And some I didn’t. My hands feel like they’re made of ash.”Astra leaned against the doorway, scanning the room. “We can’t stay here. That thing might have backed off, but if it can reach through once, it can try again.”Seris spoke up. “It will try again. And it will be angrier.”Riven muttered, “Great. I love repeat customers.”Lucian straightened, brushing soot from his hands. “She’s right. We need to move.”Mara finally lifted her gaze, eyes bloodshot. “Move where? Every path out of here runs past a
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The gate’s molten edges dimmed, but they didn’t close.They pulsed — slower now, but steady, like something behind it was breathing.“Tell me that’s just aftershock,” Lucian said.Mara didn’t answer. She was still on the floor, staring into the frame as though she could see through it.“Mara.” Cael’s tone was sharp.She blinked, then shook her head slowly. “It’s… thinking. Not retreating. Just… watching.”“That thing had no eyes until the end,” Riven said. “So how’s it watching?”Astra pushed herself up from where she’d been leaning on the wall. “You don’t want the answer.”The air shifted again, a faint tug at their clothes.Lucian gritted his teeth. “We’re not ready for another one of those.”“No,” Mara said flatly, “we’re not ready for what’s behind that one.”They turned as a soft crack echoed from the ceiling. A fine line split across the stone, dust sifting down.“Please tell me this place isn’t about to come down,” Riven muttered.“It’s not collapse,” Seris said, her voice thin
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The gate didn’t fade this time.It stayed lit, its molten edges pulsing in a slow, heartbeat rhythm.Cael wiped the dark resin from his sword with the edge of his sleeve. “It’s still open.”“That’s not ‘still open.’” Mara’s eyes didn’t leave the frame. “That’s waiting.”Riven flexed his hands on the hafts of his axes. “Waiting for what?”Nobody answered.The molten light in the frame shifted,not the sharp flare of something pushing through, but a steady swell. The air thickened, pressing on their lungs. Lucian’s grip tightened on his sword.Seris staggered, clutching her head. “The presence,it’s… different. Heavier. There’s intent in it.”“Intent to what?” Astra asked, her voice low.“To finish what the others started,” Seris whispered.A sound rumbled out of the gate, low enough they felt it in their ribs before they heard it in their ears. Not a roar, not even a growl,more like stone being pulled apart by something that enjoyed the effort.The molten light condensed, shrinking inwar
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