Semua Bab CHAINS OF ETERNITY : Bab 11 - Bab 15

🌑 Chains of EternityThe mist lay heavy over the wasteland, curling around broken stones and thorn-choked paths as if the world itself sought to blind them. The party trudged forward in silence, each step dragging with the weight of exhaustion.Kael’s chains stirred restlessly at his side, slithering across the ground like serpents. They pulsed faintly, a rhythm that matched the hollow ache in his chest. The hunger had become constant now, no longer striking in sudden waves but gnawing with every heartbeat. He clenched his jaw, forcing himself to stay in line, but his eyes wandered too often—lingering on Brann’s thick neck, on the blue vein beating along Liora’s wrist when she wiped sweat from her brow.He tore his gaze away. Not them. Never them.But the chains did not agree.---They stopped to rest at the edge of a half-collapsed archway, a ruin that jutted from the earth like the bones of a long-dead giant. Brann dropped his pack to the ground with a growl.“This pace will kill u

🌑 Chains of EternityThe world had changed.Kael’s vision was swallowed by a suffocating darkness that was not mere absence of light, but something heavier, alive, pressing down on his lungs. He staggered, the echo of the coliseum’s collapse ringing in his ears. When his knees touched the ground, it was not stone beneath him but a shifting, spongy surface that pulsed faintly like flesh.His heart hammered. The others were scattered around him—Seris, upright and calm but with her hand gripping the edge of her cloak so tightly her knuckles turned white. Brann crouched low, scanning the darkness, a blade in his hand already trembling under the weight of his breathing. Liora lay sprawled, pale, clutching her chest as though each inhale cost her a piece of her soul.The chains around Kael stirred. Not just rattling this time—whispering. He froze. The sound wasn’t metal on stone but words. Faint. Hungry. He clenched his fists. Not now. Not here.“What is this place?” Brann’s voice cracked

🌑 Chains of EternityThe world split open, not with the roar of an explosion but with the soft sigh of a door closing. Kael staggered forward, his boots scraping against stone that hadn’t been there a moment before. The coliseum, the night sky, the shattered earth—all of it was gone.Instead, they stood in a corridor that stretched into eternity, walls of obsidian glass pulsing faintly with a dull inner glow. The air was thick, humming with a vibration that seemed to bypass the ears and nestle straight into the skull. Every breath felt stolen, as though the air resisted them, clinging like tar before being dragged into unwilling lungs.Kael turned his head, eyes narrowing. Brann was already on guard, sword raised, his stance tight with paranoia. Seris, pale but unyielding, let her fingers trace the black glass wall, her lips pressed thin. Liora clung to her staff, wide-eyed, her breaths shallow and uneven. The silence pressed in on them like an invisible fist.And then, softly, it be