Lahat ng Kabanata ng ASHES OF THE LUNA QUEEN: Kabanata 201 - Kabanata 210

The light was unbearable. Sera thought she had been burned before, by flame, by betrayal, by the searing sting of Kael’s cruelty, but this was different.This wasn’t heat on skin. It was inside her, flooding her veins, breaking every nerve open until she wasn’t sure if she was burning alive or being reborn.Her scream shredded through the void. And then, Silence. When her eyes opened, the world had changed. No longer the gray void, no longer Kael’s hollow laughter clawing at her ears.She lay on solid ground, cold stone beneath her palms. Her breaths came in ragged gasps, chest heaving, but she was alive. Slowly, painfully, she lifted her head.She wasn’t alone. The cavern stretched vast and endless, walls carved with veins of molten gold that pulsed like a heartbeat. Firelight licked across the ceiling, but no flame burned.Instead, the glow came from runes etched into every surface, symbols she half-recognized, ancient and alive. But it wasn’t the cavern that stole her breath. It wa

There was no sky. No ground. No horizon. Only fire and shadow, tangled like living chains. Sera’s body floated in the endless void, every nerve aflame.The fracture pulsed violently within her chest, each throb tearing her apart, each heartbeat a war.On one side: the golden fire that tried to steady her, steady her heartbeat, steady her soul. Adrien’s fire. His presence, warm, fragile, slipping through her trembling fingers like sand.On the other: the abyss Kael had offered. Hungry, endless, whispering that everything she feared would vanish if she only let go. The void trembled with laughter. Kael’s laughter.“Sister, you thought you could defy it?” His voice was everywhere, above her, below her, inside her own skull. “The fracture is no cage. It is freedom. You’ll learn that soon enough.”She spun in the void, hair whipping around her face, eyes burning as golden light fought to hold the darkness back. And then she saw him.Kael stood before her, though his form was shifting, one

The fall was endless. Stone, flame, and shadow blurred together as the mountain’s heart collapsed. The cavern became a throat of fire, swallowing everything in its descent.Sera’s scream ripped through the chaos, but no sound came back to her, only the roar of the abyss and Kael’s fury echoing from above.She clutched Adrien tighter. His chest moved against hers in shuddering breaths, his veins faintly glowing with the golden fire she had forced into him. Alive, barely. But the fracture in her own body was tearing wider.Golden flame poured from her skin in violent pulses, colliding with the abyss that clung to her like chains. Shadows wrapped her wrists, her throat, her ankles, dragging her even as fire fought to tear them off.Kael’s voice bellowed from above, furious and commanding.“You cannot run from me, Sera! You are mine!”The shadows tugged harder, trying to yank her soul out of her falling body. Her back arched violently as the abyss pulled one way, her fire the other.Adrie

The abyss was quiet again. But not the same kind of quiet as before. This quiet was hollow, empty, scorched by the echo of Adrien’s scream.He was still on his knees, hands clawed against the black surface, chest heaving in broken sobs. His eyes burned red from crying, his voice raw from the howl that had torn his soul apart.Sera was gone. Not dead, he couldn’t accept that word, but gone. Shattered into light, scattered into nothing.His fingers clenched into fists. Blood smeared across his knuckles from pounding against the ground, but he didn’t care. The fire in his chest had collapsed into ash.For the first time in years, Adrien felt powerless. A man who had commanded empires, toppled kingdoms, torn enemies limb from limb, reduced to a broken body kneeling in the dark.He lowered his head. His breath shook, shallow and uneven. “Sera…”The name was the only anchor he had left. And then, he heard it, Not her voice. Not her flame. A whisper.“You mourn as if she were yours to keep.”

The world ended in silence. Not quiet. Silence. The kind of silence that follows after everything has been torn away, the screams, the fire, the storm.Kael’s ears rang with it. His vision swam with molten light. His body felt like broken stone, heavy and cracked, but still, alive. Barely.He pushed himself up from the rubble, coughing, tasting iron and ash. The battlefield he had once commanded was gone. Where a fortress had stood now sprawled a graveyard of shattered walls and burning debris.And in the center of it, Sera.Her silhouette was unmistakable. She stood tall amid the ruin, her gown torn, her hair whipped by the storm that still lingered in the sky. But what rooted Kael to the ground wasn’t the destruction surrounding her.It was the crown blazing on her head. Golden light poured from it, alive, furious, pulsing like a second heartbeat.A crown born of fire and storm, forged not by men but by something older, hungrier, more merciless. Sera Lin had ascended. And Kael under