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Chapter 73 – The Shadow Beneath

Author: Kristina Angels
last update Last Updated: 2025-05-18 14:35:17

Unknown Location – The Depths of the Forsaken Vale

The flames in the underground chamber burn green, casting flickering shadows across walls carved with ancient sigils. They pulse with dark energy, each a living shard of the curse etched into time.

The Black Mage stands at the center of the circle, black robes clinging to his skeletal frame like smoke. His eyes, coal-pit red, fix on the firelight. He shows no joy. No fear. Only hunger.

He feels it.

The pull.

The mirror has awakened.

“So,” he rasps, voice like silk fraying on steel, “the little Queen has found her toy.”

The curse—his masterpiece—still coils around the kingdom. A serpent of shadow slithering through bloodlines, dreams, and destinies. And now, after all these years, the final threads begin to tighten. Just as he designed.

“My daughter served well.” He turns, fingers brushing the chipped edge of an obsidian altar. Her name is carved there in a dead language —one the land itself has forgotten. “They calle
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