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Chapter 38: The Gilded Illusion

Author: Swiftpen
last update publish date: 2026-10-05 22:36:49

The golden city was not a place of stone and steel, but a shimmering, ethereal construct of light and memory. It felt like a dream captured in amber, a world where the air tasted of ozone and honey and the skyline was a series of impossible spires that reached toward a sun that never set. As I stood there, my hand locked in Alaric’s, I felt a strange, numbing peace wash over me. The chaos of the manor, the screams of the drones, and the suffocating weight of the Matriarch’s legacy seemed to fad
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