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Chapter 67

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The darkness rose like a second horizon.

Not fast.

Not violent.

Inevitable.

It rolled upward from beneath the shattered lattice, swallowing light, swallowing sound, swallowing certainty itself. Where it passed, the rules loosened—gravity forgot which way it leaned, time stuttered, memory bled into matter. I felt it brush against the edges of the mortal world and watched entire cities flicker between what they were and what they might have been.

The world wasn’t ending.

It was being unmoored.

Kael braced himself, power flaring outward in iron-deep waves, his domain snapping into place like a wall slammed down in the path of a flood. Stone reasserted itself. Borders hardened. The collapse slowed.

But it did not stop.

It’s too much, his voice strained through the bond. It’s adapting.

He was right. The thing rising wasn’t opposing us—it was learning. Adjusting its pressure against Kael’s resistance, testing my alignment, probing for the weakness between us.

And it found one.

The bond.

Pai
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