CHAPTER 113 — THE KEEPER’S WRATHThe city hung suspended, a moment stretched into infinity. Rain froze midair, shards of glass hovered like glittering daggers, and every neon light flickered as if holding its breath.Riven’s fists glowed with the Crown’s energy, veins of light racing across his skin, yet even that radiance felt puny compared to the presence that loomed above them. The first god—the original architect of the lattice—hovered, massive, impossible, and incomprehensible, its form flickering between human, beast, and something no mind could name.Its voice reverberated not just in the air but in the marrow of every bone, in the very strands of reality.You touch what you were never meant to touch, mortal.Riven’s heart pounded, but fear did not grip him. It was fury. Rage sharpened by blood, by betrayal, by the countless deaths that had brought him here.“I am meant to touch it,” he said, voice low and steady, vibrating with power. “I own this city. And I decide who lives a
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