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CHAPTER 12: THE VISION OF THE DARK THRONE

Author: Martha Elsa
last update publish date: 2026-03-24 04:00:30

Sleep was no longer a sanctuary, it was a descent.

Ever since I had "erased" the Sun-Eater in the gallery, my dreams had traded their blurry, fragmented nature for a hyper-vivid reality that felt more solid than the obsidian walls of the Maw,I wasn't just dreaming of the child anymore, I was being pulled into its world, a realm of perpetual twilight where the laws of the four kingdoms didn't apply.

In the dream, I stood in a throne room that seemed to be carved from the very fabric of the cosmo
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