All Chapters of The Forgotten Heiress: Rise of The Lycan Queen: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

The map had no name for the place.Just a jagged symbol scratched in the corner of her mother’s old journal, a flame carved into the center of a hollowed mountain range, circled in ash-colored ink and marked with a single word, written in a language only the bloodline of fire could read:Aitheryn.Elara had whispered it aloud once, and the flames in the war room had surged high in response.It wasn’t just a place.It was a key.And now, riding at full gallop beneath an overcast sky, Kael and Saphira at her flanks, Elara followed that word across forgotten paths and cliffs untouched by the living for centuries.Because she no longer sought power for vengeance.She sought it for survival.They reached the edge of the Cradle of Stone by dusk, a barren plateau circled by obsidian peaks, wind-scoured and silent. The only signs of life were the skeletons of trees long dead and the charred bones of something once massive, half-buried in the shale.Kael dismounted first.“This isn’t just old,

They came for him in the dead of night.Not enemies.Brothers.Lucien had just returned from a scouting mission beyond the southern ridge when they found him, cloaked in darkness, moving like wraiths. They circled him in the forest before he reached the walls of Moonstone Keep.Twelve vampires. All bearing the sigil of the Crimson Court.His bloodline.His past.His failure.He didn’t fight at first.He knew the rules. Knew the ritual.If they’d come this far, it was because the High House had declared him a traitor.The sentence?Trial.Not in court.But in blood.When he opened his eyes again, he was bound beneath the roots of the Hollow Tree, the ancient place where vampires settled honor with death.The roots dripped crimson sap. The air was cold with memory.A circle had gathered.Dozens of vampires, cloaked and veiled, were watching from the shadows.And at the center, seated on the ancient stone, was Lady Nyssa.Highblood of the Crimson Court.Firstborn of the Hollow Line.And

Elara stood in the war chamber, blood still drying beneath the edge of her tunic. Her side ached from the failed assassination attempt. The scar beneath her ribs still glowed faintly with runes. She hadn’t slept.Not since the dreamwalker.Not since the Night of Blades.And now.....Another storm approached.Saphira was late.Too late.Kael stood near the windows, watching the horizon.Lucien leaned over the war table, tracing the possible enemy paths with a dagger tip. “We have movement in the west. Sorcerer clans from the Shrouded Reaches. They’re not flying Pact colors, but they’ve burned three villages and—”“Where is she?” Elara asked suddenly.Lucien paused. “Who?”“Saphira.”Kael’s brow furrowed. “She left before dawn. Said she was investigating leads on the assassins.”“Alone?”Lucien scoffed. “She’s never alone.”Elara turned away from the map. “Send scouts.”Kael hesitated. “Elara—”“Now.”The scouts returned with ash.The outpost Saphira had visited, empty.No bodies.No blo

The stars bled that night.Above the northern range, a red hue spread across the sky, not the soft blush of dawn or dusk, but something deeper, darker. A scarlet flood that shimmered like oil on glass.The omens came first.Birds flew backwards. Rivers slowed without freezing. And every vampire in Eldoria felt it: A pulse.Not pain.Not power.Return.Elara stood on the high ramparts of Moonstone Keep, cloak billowing in the red wind. Lucien stood beside her, pale as frost, his expression unreadable.“What is it?” she asked quietly.He didn’t answer immediately.Then, voice tight:“Blood… calls to blood.”Behind them, the horns began to sound — not for war, but for witnessing.A procession had arrived.One that should not exist.They came in silence.No war drums.No banners.Only shadows and crimson silk, flowing like smoke over the silver-stoned courtyard.Vampires.But not like the ones who swore the Black Rose Treaty.These were older.Taller.Their skin gleamed like polished bone.

The letter arrived with the first black snow.It fell just past midnight, soft and silent, blanketing the outer towers of Moonstone Keep in ash-dusted frost. The guards found the raven perched on the eastern parapet, black as pitch, eyes glimmering violet, a single scroll tied to its claw.It did not caw.It did not blink.It only watched.And when the guards approached, it unfurled its wings and vanished in a pulse of obsidian smoke, leaving only the letter, wrapped in silver thread and waxed with a sigil no one recognised.They brought it to Elara immediately.She stood in the war room, firelight casting long shadows across the walls, a half-finished battle map before her. Her generals stood close: Kael, Lucien, Thorne, and Saphira, though even she now kept a few steps behind.Elara took the scroll and turned it in her hands.The wax was unbroken.The parchment was cold.The seal: an ink-black raven, its wings woven through a crescent moon and a serpent biting its tail.Not Pact.No