Lahat ng Kabanata ng CHAOS COLLEGE : Kabanata 51 - Kabanata 60

The fall felt endless. Cade tumbled through silver light, his body weightless, suspended between shards of reflection. Each piece of glass around him showed a different reality—one where he had saved Lila, one where he had abandoned her, one where Maeve had never existed, and another where Chaos College stood in ruins. The possibilities stretched infinitely, and he could feel each version clawing at him, trying to drag him into its truth.When he hit the ground, it wasn’t solid stone but liquid glass. It rippled outward, absorbing the shock of his impact and then reforming beneath him, transparent but unyielding. He gasped for breath and looked up—Lila hovered just ahead, still bound in chains of silver light. The sphere containing her pulsed with an unnatural heartbeat. The glow that once symbolized purity now flickered with an undertone of black fire.“Lila!” he shouted, stumbling forward. His voice echoed, splintering into a thousand distorted repetitions that bounced back at him.

Maeve’s pulse thundered in her ears. The golden shard in her hand vibrated violently, almost as if it were alive. Every step she took toward the fragmented Cade felt heavier, as though the floor itself resisted her. Around her, the Veil’s influence warped reality—the hallways stretched, twisted, and fractured into corridors that led nowhere. Reflections of herself appeared on every surface, but they weren’t her. They smiled, sneered, whispered words she could not fully comprehend.Her gaze flicked to the dark Cade. He moved with unnatural grace, every step deliberate, controlled. The shadows around him pulsed in rhythm with his heartbeat—or perhaps the Entity’s. His eyes glimmered with an intelligence Maeve hadn’t seen before, one that made her blood run cold.“You shouldn’t have come here,” the dark Cade said, voice a chilling echo of Cade’s own. “He’s mine now… and so are you, if you linger too long.”Maeve gritted her teeth. “You’re not him. You can mimic him all you want, but you’

Silence fell over the ruined chamber, but it wasn’t real silence — it was the eerie kind that vibrated beneath the skin, humming with the remnants of the abyss. Maeve steadied her breathing, every muscle tight, every nerve braced for another strike. Cade sat beside her, head bowed, fingers trembling around hers.He was alive.But he wasn’t the same.Not fully.Maeve could feel it the moment she touched him. The void clung to him like invisible dust, its cold imprint pressed into his aura. She squeezed his hand, grounding him, pulling him back into the present.“You’re here with me,” she whispered.Cade lifted his eyes — and even though she saw him, the real him, she also saw the echo of something else behind them. A flicker. A shadow. A whisper of the Entity’s touch.“Yeah,” he said softly. “I’m here.”But his voice sounded like it came from two places at once — faintly layered, almost imperceptibly, but still wrong.Maeve’s heart dropped.The Crumbling RealityThe chamber groaned. Cr

For a single, trembling heartbeat, Maeve couldn’t breathe.Cade — if it was Cade — stood before her, shoulders rising and falling with slow, controlled breaths. The shadows inside his skin pulsed like a second heartbeat, writhing under his veins, crawling toward his throat, curling behind his eyes.It was Cade.And it wasn’t.She could feel it instantly.Her Cade — the boy who had fought beside her, who had reached for her even while drowning in the void — was still in there.But something else had sunk its claws into him too.“Cade…” Maeve whispered, voice barely steady.He smiled — a smile that was almost his, but too calm, too perfect, too hollow.“Maeve,” he said softly. “You don’t have to be afraid.”That was how she knew.He had never told her not to be afraid.He always told her, “Be afraid — but fight anyway.”Her heart clenched.“What did you do?” she whispered. “What did the Entity do to you?”Cade blinked slowly. The shadows in his irises rippled like black oil.“It helped

Cade’s eyes—one shimmering gold, the other drowning in ink—locked onto Maeve with a force that nearly buckled her knees.The dual voice echoed through the mirror-realm, warped and layered:“Maeve… choose.”His breath hitched, his body trembling as if two worlds were fighting inside him.Maeve didn’t move.Couldn’t.Her fingers tightened around the glowing shard until the heat burned her palm. She forced herself to breathe, even as the labyrinth around them shuddered like a living beast.“I’m not choosing,” she whispered, voice breaking but steady. “Not yet.”For a heartbeat, nothing happened.Then—Everything happened.The mirrors flared with blinding white light.The ground tremored.The air split with a sound like cracking bones.Cade inhaled sharply and staggered backward, hands flying to his head as if someone else had seized control of his skull.A dozen versions of his voice erupted from the mirrors at once:“NO—”“Don’t—”“Maeve—run—”“Choose—NOW—”The shadows inside every mirr