Chapter 357
Author: Anakin Detour
last update2024-11-08 03:24:36

Dexter’s heart pounded as he stepped onto the cracked earth of the desolate landscape, his boots sinking slightly with each step. The horizon stretched before him like a void, filled with swirling black clouds that seemed to pulse with energy. The air was thick—cloying, oppressive, as if reality itself was bending, warping under some unseen force.

"Stay close," Dexter muttered to his team, his voice low but firm. His senses were on high alert. He could feel it—the pull of something darker than anything he’d faced before. A presence in the distance, its energy suffocating and wrong. "This place... it’s not just dangerous. It’s unstable."

Ava, always quick to read the room, nodded silently, her fingers twitching around the hilt of her sword. Next to her, Henry and Charlotte were on edge too, their eyes scanning the shifting scenery. Every few seconds, the land around them would flicker—an instant of one reality, then the next—before it snapped back, like a glitch in a broken system.

“I
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