บททั้งหมดของ The Soul-Bound Empire: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

The grand throne hall of Lupis Imperium glittered with a thousand golden chandeliers, their light reflecting off polished marble and tapestries that told tales of past triumphs. The air was thick with anticipation as the council gathered, the murmurs of noble houses echoing off the stone walls. Kael Stormfang, the Alpha Prince of the empire, stood at the head of the room, his face impassive, his eyes unreadable.He had returned from the border campaign a mere three days ago, weary but unbroken. The campaign had not been the resounding victory the empire had hoped for. The enemy forces had been strong, and the bloodshed had been unbearable. But it was the treaty that Kael was about to propose that would change the course of their future.“I announce, to end this bloody conflict,” Kael’s voice rang out, cutting through the whispers, “a Soul-Oath will be forged between myself and an enemy Omega. It will bind our lives, our souls, for peace.”The council members froze. A hushed si

Kael stood in the royal war library, the scent of old parchment and dust filling the air around him. He had been searching for answers for hours, trying to piece together the strange sensations that had been haunting him since the Soul-Oath had been forged. His body still ached from the shared pain of the ritual, but it was the inexplicable sense of familiarity, of déjà vu, that troubled him the most.The whispers of a ghost girl in his dreams, the burning fields, the faces he couldn’t quite place. Every night he woke in a cold sweat, his hand instinctively reaching out to the spot where she had stood in his dreams—her name on his lips, but always just out of reach. *Selene.*He had been through the old war records, the battle maps, the troop rosters. He had even visited the archives of the royal war library to seek out anything, anything that could explain why the name *Selene* felt so familiar to him. But so far, there was nothing. No mention of her name, no reference to an Ome

The sun had barely risen over the horizon, its light spilling over the palace grounds as Kael paced back and forth in his private sky garden. The bond between him and Selene pulsed at the edges of his consciousness, growing stronger with each passing moment. Every step he took, he could feel the echo of her presence, the steady rhythm of her heartbeat matching his own.He hated it. The bond was supposed to be a tool for peace, something to end the war, but it was slowly unraveling him. He could no longer separate her emotions from his. When she felt fear, he felt it. When she suffered, he bled. And when she experienced grief, it was as if a part of him died with her.His mind couldn’t stop racing, not after what he had learned in the archives the day before. The truth was so close now, too close for comfort. Selene had betrayed him. She had been the reason for the destruction of his army. She had feigned death, disappearing from the battlefield, leaving him to believe that his ow

The moon hung high over Lupis Imperium, casting its pale light over the palace courtyard. The silence of the night was broken only by the occasional rustle of leaves in the wind and the distant sounds of the guards on patrol. Inside the palace, however, the air was thick with the weight of unsaid words, the intensity of the bond between Kael and Selene making the very walls of the castle seem like they were holding their breath.Kael had barely slept the night before. He had drifted in and out of uneasy slumber, plagued by vivid dreams that were always the same: a battlefield drenched in blood, smoke swirling in the air, and a figure—a girl—running toward him, only for the flames to consume her before he could reach her. Each time he woke, his chest would tighten in a panic, his breath shallow and erratic, as though the dream had left him with a lingering sense of something—something unfinished.And every time, the girl’s face was obscured by smoke. The only thing that remained c

Selene’s footsteps echoed down the marble corridor, a rhythmic reminder of the storm she was about to walk into. Her heart was pounding, and the bond between her and Kael hummed painfully in her chest, each step she took drawing her closer to the inevitable confrontation that awaited them in the council chamber. It had started as a whisper—a flicker of doubt, an unshakable feeling that something was amiss. But now, it was a full-blown storm in her mind.She had been feeling it for days—an increasing pressure in the bond, a weight she couldn't ignore. The emotions that flowed between her and Kael had been more intense than ever, his frustrations, his suspicions, all seeping into her. But it wasn’t just his emotions she felt—it was something else. Something far more dangerous.Kael had learned too much. And the truth had begun to surface, in fragments, in pieces. The manipulation, the betrayal, the conspiracy within the palace—it was all connected. And Selene couldn’t help but wond