Bound in Black Magic
The shrieking frequency of the stones instantly flatlined into a deep, harmonious hum.
The violent shaking of the cavern ceased. The falling debris suspended itself in mid-air before clattering softly onto the obsidian floor.
Across the chamber, Vane stared in absolute, paralyzing horror as the control console beneath his hands sparked, smoked, and finally melted into a useless puddle of slag.
"No... impossible," Vane whispered, stepping back in sheer terror. "That core requires an imperial bloodline... it shouldn't respond to a lowland servant—"
"I was never a servant, Vane," I said, my voice carrying an overwhelming, supernatural resonance that echoed off every stone wall of the Scriptoriu