جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 32

Six days left.The number echoed in my head as we approached the fourth ritual site. Three sites disrupted. Three Old Court members consumed by the Devourer. And with each feeding, I felt it growing stronger through the golden chains.Felt it pushing harder against my control."This one's different," Konstantin said. His platinum-white hair was dirty now, matted from days of travel. His ice-chip eyes studied the structure ahead—not a tower or temple, but a crater. A massive hole in the ground that glowed with sick golden light. "The magic signature is wrong. Unstable.""Because we're disrupting them out of order." Dorian's voice was weak. The journey was killing him slowly. His gray ponytail had come undone, his reading glasses were cracked beyond repair. "Your grandmother designed the sites to be freed in a specific sequence. We're doing it backwards. Randomly. The ritual is destabilizing.""Good," Elysia said. Her emerald eyes were hard. "Let it destabilize. Let the whole thing coll