Silas, wearing Valeria’s kind, wrinkled face, let out a grating, multi-layered laugh. "Steal a heartbeat? You are powerful, Shadow Queen, but you are not a god. The moment you strike me, this mortal heart stops, and the silver-explosives detonate. Checkmate."He held up the glowing green detonator, his thumb hovering millimeters over the dead-man's switch."I don't need to be a god, Silas," I said softly, my voice dropping to a terrifying, absolute calm. "I just need to be faster than a pulse."I didn't blink. I didn't breathe. I tapped into the deepest reservoir of the Convergence.Not the Void. The Frost.The legacy of my mother, the power that had kept an entire continent frozen for two decades, surged through my veins. But I didn't unleash a blizzard. I condensed all of that catastrophic energy into a single, microscopic point.“Absolute Zero.”I snapped my fingers.The effect was instantaneous and completely silent. The ambient temperature in the medical wing didn't drop, but Val
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