All Chapters of Kingdom of Ash and Blood : Chapter 191 - Chapter 200

AMARA The world shattered like glass. When the floor split beneath the altar, the crypt convulsed into chaos — ancient walls collapsing as fire burst through the cracks. Luca grabbed my arm, dragging me back as the ceiling caved in. “Run!” he shouted. But I didn’t move. Because from the heart of the altar, a light was rising — not fire, not code, but something colder. Human silhouettes flickered in the smoke. Dozens of them. No, hundreds. All of me. Reflections — walking, moving, breathing — eyes blank, faces mine. The Mirror Protocol had copied me into flesh. Each version stepped forward, dressed in shards of black and white. They were perfect replicas, whispering the same phrase in perfect unison: “You cannot kill the truth.” Luca pulled me behind a crumbling pillar. “They’re not real, Amara!” “They bleed,” I hissed, pointing at one dragging a blade through its palm. Blood — red, warm, and real — fell to the ground. “They are real.” The clones advanced, ey

LUCA Berlin was cold — the kind of cold that bit through leather and bone. The Ghost Network had fractured into a thousand shadows, but one fragment pulsed louder than the rest. Its digital heartbeat led me here, to a forgotten data vault beneath an abandoned subway line. The station was a skeleton — rails overgrown with rust, walls carved with graffiti from a revolution that never made it past the streetlights. My boots echoed against cracked tiles as I descended into the dark. The signal flickered again on my retinal lens. SOURCE: UNKNOWN NODE — “HELIOS” SIGNATURE MATCH: MATEO VARELA [34%] TRACE INITIATED... The name “Helios” shouldn’t have existed anymore. It was a prototype system Mateo and I built back when we were barely out of our teens — a neural-mirroring algorithm designed to map emotion into code. Amara had shut it down years ago, after it nearly drove an entire city insane with feedback loops of fear. Now it was awake again. A soft hum vibrated through t

LUCA The days after the light storm felt like waking from a war that never ended. Palermo moved again, cautiously, like a body learning to breathe after being drowned. The old networks — financial, criminal, digital — had gone dark. What replaced them wasn’t the chaos I expected, but quiet coordination. Amara’s coordination. The city answered to her rhythm now. Not through fear, not entirely through blood, but through connection. Every screen, every encrypted signal, every whisper across the Mediterranean bent around her command. She hadn’t seized power. She became it. And I was still learning what that meant. I stood at the balcony of her new command center — not a palace, not a fortress, but a steel-and-glass structure overlooking the sea. Below us, cranes moved under floodlights, rebuilding docks and tunnels. Palermo reborn through code. She worked alone most nights, hands over holographic screens that responded to touch and breath. The mark on her wrist — once faint

AMARA There is something strange about peace. It’s too quiet. Too… forgiving. I woke before sunrise, the world still heavy with that soft blue hour between night and morning. Palermo slept below, its lights dim and dreaming, the sea stretching endlessly into silver. The villa was still, save for the sound of waves and Luca’s slow, steady breathing behind me. I watched him for a while. He slept like someone who had finally stopped running. Maybe we both had. The empire was stable. The Blood Code silenced. No assassins in the dark, no fire at our gates. For the first time since I could remember, I didn’t wake with my hand on a gun. But that didn’t mean I was free. Freedom, I was learning, was its own kind of cage. I stepped out onto the balcony, barefoot, the marble cool beneath my feet. The dawn air kissed my skin — salt and jasmine. Below, the gardens bloomed again, wild and green, as if the earth itself was trying to reclaim what war had stolen. Damien’s ghost had

Amara The night in Palermo bled quietly. Rain slid down the glass walls of the Moretti estate like the sky itself was tired of watching. Every shadow in the corridor seemed heavier — as if it carried a secret that refused to stay buried. Amara walked without her guards, her bare feet whispering against marble. The house didn’t feel like hers anymore. It hadn’t, not since Luca disappeared into silence and the Veil began whispering through her empire like rot through roses. She’d asked everyone to leave. Everyone but him. “Mateo.” He stood by the study window, the one overlooking the old vineyard. He didn’t turn around immediately — just let her voice hang there, like a ghost testing the walls. When he finally looked at her, his eyes weren’t the same boyish grey she’d known. They were fractured — like mirrors that had seen too much truth. “You’ve been keeping things from me,” she said. Not a question. A verdict. He sighed, fingers tightening on the edge of the desk. “If