The Silver Pact
Yet, despite the oppressive dark, a faint, rhythmic crimson light pulsed from the open archway ahead, casting long, blood-red shadows across the stone floor.
Gideon pulled me behind the edge of the carved archway, dropping to one knee as we peeked into the central vault beyond.
My breath caught in my throat.
The central subterranean vault was vast—a massive, circular amphitheater carved out of the mountain's deepest roots. Suspended in the exact center of the cavern, floating over a bottomless pit of liquid magma, was the Titan Core. The massive, crystalline sphere throbbed with an erratic, blood-red light, its subterranean ley-lines groaning under the strain of being siphoned.