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CHAPTER 97

Penulis: CagalieYula
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-23 22:07:46

The first sensation was light. Not the gentle glow of the Vaelen cavern, but a harsh, white, all-consuming radiance that had no source and no end. There was no sound. No feeling of a body. No up or down. I was a point of awareness adrift in an endless, silent sea of white.

Is this death?

The thought was calm, detached. If this was the price for Elisse’s safety, for breaking Renejay’s hold, then it was a price I would pay a thousand times over. I hoped Kairi had survived. I hoped my final, desperate gamble hadn’t taken him with me.

Then, a sound. Faint at first, then growing clearer. It was a voice, but it was layered, echoing, as if a thousand people were speaking the same words in perfect unison.

…anomaly… contamination of the source…

…a dual signature… life forces intertwined…

…the sacrifice was not pure… it was a fusion…

The words meant nothing. They were cold, analytical, devoid of emotion.

The white began to resolve into shapes. Vast, geometric structures that stretched into infi
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