Hellspawn felt Rafael die.Not as loss.As insult.The scream tore through realms unseen, a rupture that split the veil between worlds. In the Abyss Beyond—the place that was not hell, not earth, not sky—Hellspawn rose from his throne of void and bone.Rafael’s blood-mark shattered.The tether snapped.And for the first time in centuries, Hellspawn roared.“You useless, fragile thing,” he snarled, shadows exploding outward like wings. “You were meant to last longer.”The Abyss trembled.Obelisks cracked. Ancient runes burned out. Souls—half-formed, screaming—were flung against invisible walls as Hellspawn paced, clawed feet gouging the black stone beneath him.Rafael had been a vessel.A shield.A distraction.But worse—Rafael had been bait.And now the bait was gone.Hellspawn lifted a hand, and the void obeyed. A vision unfurled in the air before him.Aurelia.Standing in the forest, blade still glowing faintly, Lucien at her side.Together.Hellspawn’s eyes narrowed.“So,” he murm
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