Lahat ng Kabanata ng THE LOST TIDE KING : Kabanata 31 - Kabanata 40

CHAPTER 32: THE BROKEN TRUSTScene 94: Another LeakRaiken’s oldest commander moved before anyone else.His sword flashed toward my throat.Raiken caught the blade with his bare hand.Blue fire burst across the steel.The commander cried out and dropped to one knee, but the room had already broken apart.Wolves slammed into one another.The signal fire spat white and black sparks across the floor. Torren fought Varek beside the shattered windows. Lysa shouted orders no one followed. Kiyomi stood inside a ring of red armour, both hands raised, her face pale beneath the blue crown of light.“Stop,” she shouted.No one did.I drove white water through the centre of the chamber.The wave struck shields, legs, and weapons. Bodies slid across wet stone. For one second, the lines separated.Raiken twisted the sword from his commander’s grip.“Why?”The older man looked up at him.Blood ran from his burned palm.“You left us.”Raiken’s face went still.“I went below to stop Orochi.”“You went

CHAPTER 34: AYAME'S AWAKENING POWERScene 100: The Ocean AnswersDo not go down.Raiken’s warning tore through the bond.The staircase pulled harder.My boots slid across wet stone toward the darkness. Black hands gripped Cael and Shigure, dragging them in opposite directions while Astraya watched from the top step wearing Kiyomi’s face.The mark on my palm burned red.Far below, the coffin opened wider.Something breathed.Slow.Deep.Hungry.I drove my fingers into a crack in the chapel floor.“Let them go.”Astraya tilted her head.“You are not giving commands here.”The hands tightened around Cael’s throat.His face darkened.Shigure twisted against the mist and slashed through one wrist. Two more replaced it.“Ayame,” he forced out. “Leave.”“You brought me here.”“I know.”His eyes met mine.“Do not make my mistake worse.”The floor shifted beneath me.My grip slipped.The staircase pulled me forward.I reached for the white power that had always answered in flashes.Nothing cam

CHAPTER 36: THE FORBIDDEN TRUTHScene 106: The Hidden ArchiveThe bone ship cut through the red sea without making a sound.Grandmother stood at its bow.Kiyomi stood beside her in a silver crown.Hayate remained on his knees, the serpent blade pressed between his shoulders.Raiken gripped my arm before I stepped onto the water.“Look again.”I did.Kiyomi’s hair moved in the wind.Grandmother’s cloak did not.Neither did the black sails.The ships behind them crossed the waves without disturbing them.“Another vision,” I whispered.Cassian watched the fleet through narrowed eyes.“Not entirely.”He pointed toward the white vessel.Its reflection moved differently from the ship.In the water, Grandmother was absent.Kiyomi stood alone at the bow.Hayate was not kneeling.He was dead.I jerked my gaze away.The child echo still held my hand.“Where are they?”She pointed toward the lighthouse.“Where the crown buried the truth.”The army of my forgotten lives parted.A path opened acro

CHAPTER 38: THE ABDUCTIONScene 112: Blood Moon FestivalThe first king’s hand remained inside Raiken’s back.Raiken shuddered against me.Blue fire burst from his shoulders, but the figure only smiled.“You chose love before,” he said again. “And it destroyed the kingdom.”I pushed both hands against Raiken’s chest.The sea answered beneath the lighthouse.Water exploded through the cracked floor and struck the first king from behind.His body broke into silver mist.Raiken fell forward.I caught him before his knees hit stone.The black veins across his throat faded, then returned in thinner lines.“Raiken.”His eyes opened.Both silver.His hand closed around my wrist.“Do not let them gather.”“Who?”“The wolves.”A horn sounded above us.Then another.Music followed.Drums.Flutes.Voices rising in celebration.Shigure appeared at the broken stair.His face tightened.“The festival.”Outside, Silvercrest had filled with red lanterns.They hung from every rooftop and fishing mast,

CHAPTER 40: THE QUEEN IN CHAINSScene 118: Prison of ShadowsOrochi’s city rose through the dead sea.Its towers broke the surface one after another, black stone gleaming beneath the blood moon. Red water poured from windows shaped like open mouths. Bells rang somewhere below, slow enough to feel inside my ribs.Raiken tried to stand.His weight shifted against me, then failed.“Stay down.”His silver eyes found mine.“Ayame.”The warning reached me a breath before the shadows did.They burst from the platform.Cold bands wrapped around my ankles and climbed my legs. I struck them with white light, but the dead sea swallowed the glow.Raiken caught my wrist.The shadows tore us apart.His fingers slid from mine.“No.”Blue fire exploded around him.The first king raised one hand.Grey water struck Raiken across the chest and drove him into the broken altar.Orochi watched from the highest throne of the rising city.He did not move.He did not need to.The shadows lifted me from the pl