บททั้งหมดของ The Carpathian Prophecy Of Alpha's Love: บทที่ 11 - บทที่ 20

THE BLACK CITADELThunder boomed over the Carpathians like a divine warning. The Citadel was slashed by rain as Elara ran along beside Lerder, wet to the skin, breathing in short, sharp breaths."We're close," Lerder muttered, his jaw squeezed, his voice hardly audible above the storm."Too close," she expressed. The air vibrated with a heartbeat, a false, ancient, and hungry energy.They stepped into a very dark place, barely visible.__BLACK CITADEL FORTRESS__Moved into the mountainside, the fortress was full of bleeding shadows. The spires wrestle up towards a storm-tormented sky, windows made with deep mirrors, walls as tall as mountains, with heavy stones and marbles.As Lerder and Elara crossed into enemy territory. The walls transformed here, trees, the air into dark magic. Every step toward the Black Citadel was a dare to fate.“I still think this is a trap?” Elara asked, eyes narrowed with curiosity.Lerder didn’t answer. His eyes were locked ahead, mouth tight, every muscle

THE MOTHER OF CURSESThe wind above the Citadel howled like it remembered every soul lost beneath its spires. But below, in the chamber of blood and bones, silence reigned.Elara stood at the center of the fading gate, her palm still bleeding from the self-inflicted wound. Her breath was ragged, her eyes flashing with residual fire. The blade she used, still trembling in her arm, was no longer black.Now, it pulsed a ghostly white, almost as if cleansed. “She tried to consume me,” Chaewon whispered.Lerder stepped in, touching her face with trembling fingers. “But you didn’t let her.”“She’s still there. I can feel her. Like a shadow inside my ribcage. Waiting.”A woman with Elara’s face looking older, crueler. Standing on a pile of corpses. Laughing.“I died cursing the world. And now I return to finish it,” the voice hissed.Lerder screamed. “This changes everything.”“She died in childbirth,” Elara said. “She…”“Was sealed,” Lerder said. “Not dead. Bound inside you.”Elara backed a

THE SHADOW HEARTTrees bent away from the storm swelling over the Carpathians, as if the earth itself feared what was coming. The clouds rolled in violet spirals, and above them, the moon cracked open with black veins flowing across its face like decay flesh.“She’s forcing the merge,” Rhys yelled, saying behind Lerder and Lyra. “Elara’s bond with the Queen… it’s being hijacked.”“Then we rip her out,” Lerder growled, running faster, claws half-shifted, eyes burning.“She’ll fight you,” Lyra warned.“Then she’ll lose.” he barked.They found the clearing minutes later, it wasn’t just a clearing. Was a sanctum holy site scorched into blasphemy. Stone pillars rose like broken ribs from the earth, forming a ring around the Queen’s sigil carved in bone-white ash. Candles of black flame floated midair, and in the center was Elara.She floated above the ground, arms limp, head tilted back, her hair whipped by massive wind. Anya stood just below, chanting with a scroll of skin in one hand, an

THE FALLING The Citadel was dying.  They barely escaped the Citadel—wounded, fractured. Lerder sat beside the fire, staring into his bloodied hands. “I’m his son.” “You are not him,” Elara said. “But I carry his blood… Just like you carry hers.” “I saw myself kill you,” Elara whispered. “And I wanted it.” Lerder looked up. “Then kill me now.” Elara kissed him instead, hard and desperate. He pulled her into his lap, kissed her with passion, he kept romancing her body to more pleasure, mouth tasting of salt and ash. He voiced tightly, “I love you, Elara with all my heart you're the perfect woman for me.” “I love you too, what can I do without you… You are my w

THE MIRROR OF ANCESTRYThe Temple rose from stone like a wound in the world. As they entered the altar pulsed, and stopped moving.Elara stepped forward.“Wait,” Lerder said. “Let me.”“No.”“I won’t let you die for me.”“You won’t. You’ll live because of me.”She kissed him—deep, and that passionate kiss made the ritual begin. Light surged. Pain roared.But then, Rhys screamed. “NO!”He tackled Elara, severing the rite and holding her tight, never wanting to leave her. The magic imploded, Elara collapsed—Lerder fell. And from the altar, her mother rose. Elara woke up straight when she got the signal that her mother appeared again.Rhys shouted. “Let's leave here… Everyone run for your life.” And she ran out of the temple and everyone followed her.The forest caught its breath in its vicinity—ancient oaks leaning in like witnesses too ancient and too sage to act. The temple itself was carved into the ribcage of the mountain, the black stone veined with silver, pulsating slightly benea