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Chapter 184: The Mirror’s Breath
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The Blood Bound Legacy Chapter 186: The Choice and the Crown
Sariah stepped back, breath shallow.The child had eyes like the entity and a smile that knew too much.It looked between them and spoke in a voice that wasn’t age or gender, or species.“Whoever claims the throne binds the world. But whoever delays... damns it.”And then it pointed at Isolde.“You were first. You must choose first.”Isolde stared at the throne. Then at Sariah. And took one step forward. Isolde’s foot hovered over the stone, suspended for a heartbeat too long.Everything inside her said move. Everything else said, don’t.The child-like figure stood with its hand still outstretched, gaze unmoving, as if the gesture alone had already reshaped the outcome. Its silence was louder than thunder. It waited not for obedience, but inevitability.She stepped down.The ground didn’t shift, but the air did. Every breath she drew after that felt like inhaling the future—raw, sharp, irreversible.Behind her, Sariah didn’t speak. Isolde didn’t dare look back. If she did, she wasn’t
The Blood Bound Legacy Chapter 185: The Cost of Stepping Forward
The throne hovered within the breach like a promise too heavy to carry. It didn’t glow. It drew. It wasn’t simply stone and sigil. It was memory shaped into a burden—history forged into a dare. The world around them dimmed, as if holding its breath not from fear, but anticipation.Isolde felt it before she saw it. The way the light bent. The gravity shifted beneath her feet. The way her power leaned forward as if trying to crawl out of her chest. She took one step toward the breach.Sariah blocked her path, not violently. Just enough.“Don’t,” she said quietly.Isolde didn’t step back. “We don’t have time for this.”“No,” Sariah said. “We don’t. Which is exactly why we need to decide now who’s going through.”The wind shifted around them, thick with static. Behind them, the entity watched but did not speak. It had made its statement. It had offered the throne. It would not interfere. That made it worse.“Why are you stopping me?” Isolde asked, voice low.Sariah’s jaw clenched. “Becaus
The Blood Bound Legacy Chapter 184: The Mirror’s Breath
It was like looking at a dream she’d had too many times to remember clearly; her double stepped forward, not an enemy, not a beast, but her. A perfect rendition, down to the scar above the eyebrow, the tilt of her chin when she was calculating too fast for her mouth to catch up. This wasn’t a clone. It was a decision made visible.Sariah didn’t draw her weapon.Not yet.She stared at the copy, at the version of herself born from everything she had buried or denied, and the longer she looked, the less she could breathe.“You’re not real,” she said, though her voice lacked conviction.The copy smiled, a small, private curl of the lips. “But I could be.”That was the problem. She could be. She was. Somewhere inside, beneath the anger, beneath the guilt, beneath the years of sharpening herself against expectation and survival, there was this. A colder Sariah. A Sariah without hesitation. Without fear. Without need.“What do you want?” Sariah asked, her hand flexing but not reaching for he
The Blood Bound Legacy Chapter 183: The Thing That Comes Wearing Silence
The sky didn’t scream. It didn’t roar. It simply opened wider an ancient seam stretched thin, revealing something vast beyond it. It wasn't light that poured through, or darkness either. It was a third thing, something language hadn’t yet evolved to describe. The world didn’t darken or brighten, it hollowed.At first, no one could tell what was coming. It had no shape. It was not wind, fire, or cloud, but all of them and none of them, a rippling pressure that weighed down on lungs and will alike. People began to fall to their knees without realizing they had. It wasn’t worship. It was instinct. Every living thing knew to lower its gaze when the divine or something wearing the sacred as a skin entered the room.Isolde stood tall, but she felt the tremor in her bones. The Fold had felt like a sentient weapon. This... this was something different. This was hunger with purpose. This was memory twisted into prophecy. She took a step forward, and every step required more strength than the l
The Blood Bound Legacy Chapter 182 : What Grows from Ruin
Sariah flew backward, landing hard against a stone. Pain exploded through her ribs, but she was already scrambling up, eyes blazing.Isolde lunged for the echo, but it vanished, dissolved into mist and voice and promise.The throne cracked again, and what remained of it, and the sky above split down its middle.Not from light. From something coming through. Something vast.And the echo’s voice rang out from everywhere at once.“You broke the cycle. Now watch what grows from the ruin.”The voice faded, but its presence lingered like smoke clinging to skin. It left behind something sticky in the air, unspoken dread, unspent power, a tension that refused to be released.Sariah groaned as she pushed herself upright. Her ribs ached from the impact, but nothing felt broken. The pain was useful; it kept her grounded, gave her something tangible to hold onto while the world came apart around her.Above, the sky remained torn. Not bleeding, not glowing. Just… exposed, like a wound too deep to
The Blood Bound Legacy Chapter 181: The One That Wears Her Face
Sariah didn’t lower her blade.She couldn’t. Not when the thing standing before her had her voice, her eyes, her posture only sharpened, hollowed. This wasn’t a reflection. It was an improvement. Or at least, that’s what it wanted her to think.“I’m not afraid of you,” Sariah said, voice steady.The echo smiled, tilting its head in a way that was too deliberate to be instinct. “No. You’re afraid of what I represent. You’re afraid that I’m what you could have become if you hadn’t been soft. If you hadn’t hesitated.”“I’m not the one hiding behind stolen skin.”“It’s not stolen. It’s offered,” the echo said calmly. “By the Fold. By the part of you that still remembers what it felt like to be unseen. To be underestimated. I am your ambition without restraint. I am you, but without the constant ache of approval.”“You’re not me.”“You’re what you were trying to become. Until she came along.”The echo’s gaze flicked to Isolde, and for a moment, Sariah’s heart stuttered. Not because she fea
The Blood Bound Legacy Chapter 180: The Reckoning Before the Return
The sky was wrong.Sariah didn’t know how else to describe it. The stars had begun to reorder themselves, blinking in and out like ancient eyes trying to remember what they were supposed to see. Every few moments, she felt the world twitch, not shake, not tremble. Just… twitch, like a breath caught in the throat of the universe.It had been nearly a day since Isolde vanished into the Origin.And still, the silence screamed.The woman in violet flame, who had given them no name and no answers, sat by the smoldering remains of the throne, as though guarding it from nothing. Or everything. She hadn't spoken since Isolde had disappeared. She hadn’t moved. Her flame pulsed low and steady, a heartbeat no one dared interrupt.Sariah’s nerves had stretched thin. She’d paced the perimeter of the Citadel’s ruins until her legs ached. She’d argued with Cael’s second, Evin, about whether they should prepare for evacuation, or a siege, or worse. None of them agreed. No one knew what waited.“I can
The Blood Bound Legacy Chapter 179: The Thing That Waits
The chamber was impossibly vast, but the silence made it feel smaller, like the air was pressing inward, squeezing the edges of her breath. Isolde rose to her feet slowly, every muscle tight, the weight of what she’d just experienced still ghosting through her. The floor beneath her boots was smooth and dark, not stone or metal, but something else entirely, like obsidian soaked in memory.Cael lay crumpled against the far wall, his body held up only by the golden chains embedded in the air around him. They were not physical and not visible at first glance, but they shimmered faintly when she moved closer, buzzing with containment magic older than language.His blood was drying across his jaw, but he was breathing.Barely. She stepped forward. And the shadow moved. Not across the wall, not down from the ceiling. It moved within the room itself, displacing air, warping space, folding light like parchment.“Don’t,” it whispered.A voice that wasn’t a voice. It was breath. Thought. Cold f
The Blood Bound Legacy Chapter 178: The Origin is a Mirror
There was no light, no darkness either . Just sensation. A pulsing presence like breath against the back of her neck, like eyes opening in a room where no one was meant to look.Isolde stood still because motion was meaningless here. The ground wasn’t ground. The air wasn’t air. It was all... memory. Living memory. As if the world had collapsed inward and wrapped itself around thought. Around feeling.This was the place the Hollow had whispered about. This was the Origin.And it wasn’t a location. It was a question.Who are you when no one is watching?The words weren’t spoken. They were known.She took a slow step forward—not because she was sure it mattered, but because she needed the reminder that she still could. The shard in her hand pulsed like a heartbeat, guiding her forward.Shapes began to form ahead of her. Shadowed outlines of people, places, moments. They twisted in and out of clarity, reflections of her life, but warped. Familiar faces with unfamiliar eyes. Choices she’d
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