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THE CALL TO ARMS
Dah stood frozen. Noah sat frozen. Shock and confusion settled over them as Esther’s words hung in the air; "You have to die".Neither of them understood it. The meaning refused to settle, slipping away each time they tried to grasp it. Noah searched Esther’s face, looking for certainty, for clarity—but found neither. Dah exchanged a brief glance with him, his brow furrowed, his thoughts racing in the same direction.Perhaps the wine still lingered in her blood.!Perhaps sleep still clouded her mind.The celebration had stretched long into the night, and Esther had been among those who drank deeply. The idea took root easily—that exhaustion and lingering intoxication had twisted her words, that she had spoken without fully understanding what she meant.Still, Noah needed certainty. He leaned closer, his voice calm but edged with urgency. He asked quietly, “Why? Why would I have to die for Ethusa to return?”Esther did not answer immediately. She remained lying still, eyes unfocused, as
THE MIDNIGHT RESOLVED
Esther held the crystal in her hands, turning it slowly as if testing its weight and shape. Sunlight filtered through the trees, glinting off its polished surface, and she could feel it—not just as a gemstone, but as a vessel of immense and incomprehensible power. Even after its link with Noah, the memory of its strength lingered like a faint pulse beneath her fingertips. She allowed herself a small smile, glad to see the joy on everyone else’s faces. After all their trials, the crystal was finally in their hands.To the others—including Noah—the crystal appeared ordinary. The moment it had finished speaking with him, its consciousness seemed to vanish, leaving nothing behind but a smooth, cold stone. The mind and will that had challenged, tested, and chosen were gone, invisible to anyone else.Noah alone understood what had truly happened. The crystal now rested in his possession, safely kept in the chamber he had claimed. Its presence was familiar, yet it carried a weight no one co
THE LIGHT OF CHOICE II
Noah remained silent. The man’s words struck him harder than he expected, sending a ripple of shock through his thoughts. Confusion followed, thick and unsettling. He let the words sink into him slowly, turning them over in his mind. He could not understand why the crystal claimed his fear had not been of losing, but of being chosen—of winning.After a moment, Noah spoke. He lifted his gaze to the man and said, “I think you are mistaken. You say my fear was of winning instead of losing like the others, but I don’t understand what you mean. I was scared of losing just like the others, not afraid of being the chosen one.”The man did not react immediately. When he did speak, his voice was calm, certain. He said, “I have been inside your mind, Noah. Even if you deny it, even if you hide it from yourself, what Lindsey once said to you still echoes there. It lingers. It speaks to you. The idea that you could be a great King.”Noah frowned. He replied, “That’s not possible. My brother is al
THE LIGHT OF CHOICE
Everyone was now on their feet as Noah prepared to approach the crystal. Each of them silently wished, hoped, that he would be the chosen one. If he were, it would mean that their efforts and suffering had not been in vain. It would also reaffirm that they could always trust Esther’s instincts.Not only that, it would mean the crystal had not merely toyed with them, but had tested their strength to find someone truly worthy of the power within. It would also mean that Ramsay had been wrong.Yet the chance of Noah being the chosen one was slim. Even though they hoped for it—simply because he was the last—the crystal might still reject him, just as it had the others. It could manipulate him, play with him, crush him. If that happened, everything Ramsay had warned them about would be proven true.The fate of everyone now depended on Noah being the chosen one. If he were not, they would lose the power within the crystal—the only force capable of defeating Marcelos. Perhaps, then, every li
THE TRIAL OF NOAH
After Kinsley lost, the chamber fell into a suffocating silence. No one spoke, yet the truth lingered in the air like a bitter taste: Kinsley hadn’t simply failed—he had been tricked.The others felt it. They had watched his trial closely, seen how the question cornered him with no clean answer, no true path to victory. The more they thought about it, the more it felt deliberate… as though the crystal had never intended to let him win in the first place.Whispers spread through the group—not spoken aloud, but sensed in glances, in tension, in the tightness of their breaths.Maybe Ramsay had been right all along. Maybe the crystal really didn’t want to help them. Maybe it was playing with them—offering slivers of hope only to snatch them away the moment anyone came close.The pattern seemed too clear now: Every trial looked winnable… until the final moment, where something twisted, shifted, or turned impossible. The crystal dangled victory like bait—and then denied them cruelly.Yet de
The Trial of Choice
Tracy could be seen sitting with the others who had faced their opponents and been defeated. She rested her back against the cold stone wall, seated next to Esther, allowing the healer to work her magic.As Esther’s magic wove over her, repairing the lingering effects of the trial, a heavy silence filled the chamber. No one spoke. Everyone seemed lost in thought, caught in the weight of unspoken fears. Their thoughts: "What if Ramsay was right? What if none of them was truly the chosen one? Could all their efforts to reach the crystal have been in vain?"Six challengers had already approached the crystal—and each had been defeated. The uncertainty pressed on the remaining challengers: could they reach the crystal without suffering the same fate? The thought lingered, unanswered, as no one dared voice it.Yet despite the doubts, they could not see another way. If they ever hoped to defeat Marcelos, they would need the power held within the crystal. Without it, there was no chance of s
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