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The Gate convulsed again, swallowing the remnants of Noir’s explosion inside layers of expanding shadow that rippled across the chamber like waves stirred by an unseen, colossal heartbeat. The air thickened, then dropped into a cold stillness that made the hairs on Yuki’s arms stand upright. Every surface—stone, wall, floor, even the falling debris—froze mid-motion, suspended unnaturally as if the Gate itself inhaled and held its breath.Yuki stepped back instinctively, gripping her staff as every particle of air vibrated with a familiar and terrifying energy she had worked her entire life to keep dormant. Shadows spread across the ground beneath her feet like ink spilled with malicious intent, crawling upward toward her legs with an intimacy that made her skin crawl.Sahara gasped softly. “Yuki… the Abyss is calling you.”Rayan muttered, “Great. Because things weren’t horrifying enough already.”Jiro stepped protectively between Yuki and the spreading darkness. “Stay behind me.”Yuki
4-30
The chamber following the Gate of Sacrifice shifted into a suffocating twilight, thick with floating dust motes that glowed faintly like dying embers suspended in still air, creating an atmosphere both serene and unnervingly oppressive. The sky—if it could be called a sky—throbbed with roiling crimson clouds that churned slowly overhead like congealed blood reacting to unseen cosmic pressure that saturated the entire Gate dimension.Noir carried Andrew closely, one arm wrapped under his knees and the other bracing his back, while Andrew’s head rested limply against Noir’s shoulder, his breathing shallow and painfully erratic. The Sapphire embedded in Andrew’s chest flickered sporadically, each pulse dimmer than the last as though its light were retreating deeper into his body to escape the damage it had sustained.Yuki rushed forward the moment she saw Noir emerge from the collapsing corridor, her hands already glowing with frantic white healing energy. “Put him down, Noir,” she plead
4-29
The chamber shifted with a grinding rumble that vibrated up through Andrew’s ankles, shaking loose dust from an unseen ceiling and casting the entire team into a wavering haze of deep violet light. The air thickened immediately—denser, heavier, saturating their lungs with a coldness that carried the sharp metallic taste of something ancient and cruel waking from a long slumber. Rayan stepped back reflexively, then hissed as the ground beneath him pulsed like a heartbeat.Jiro raised his blades. “Everyone stay alert. The trial is coming.”But Andrew already felt it.A whisper that wasn’t sound but instinct scraping across the inside of his skull, dragging the remnants of the Sapphire within him closer to the surface. The Gate was not asking for strength. It was demanding it—like a mouth widening hungrily, searching for the weakest soul to devour.Then the floor split.A perfect circle carved itself around Rayan with a burst of violet fire, isolating him in a ring of sigils that glowed
4-28
Andrew drifted in a darkness so absolute it felt thick and liquid, clinging to his thoughts like ink seeping into the cracks of an already fractured mind. There was no sound, no ground, no sensation except the distant echo of a fading heartbeat—his own, dissolving slowly into the void surrounding him. He tried to inhale, but the darkness pressed against his lungs like invisible weights, suffocating and relentless in its silent insistence.He could not tell if minutes, hours, or an eternity passed before a thin spark of cold blue light flickered within the abyss, pulsing once with a weakened rhythm that barely registered as life. The light grew slightly, then dimmed again, as if struggling to decide whether to continue existing or finally collapse into nothingness.Another heartbeat.Barely.Andrew tried to speak, but his voice failed, collapsing into silence that swallowed even the attempt. He reached toward the flickering light, but his arm refused to move, the darkness clinging arou
4-27
The Gate reassembled itself with a violent shudder, twisting the labyrinth into a colossal arena made of spiraling obsidian platforms suspended above a void so deep it swallowed even the faintest echo of sound, while arcs of pale golden lightning crackled across the distant walls like veins pulsing within some cosmic organism. The heirs materialized at separate points around the structure, each pulled by invisible force into positions arranged with surgical precision by the Gate’s unseen will.Andrew appeared on the lowest platform, clutching his chest as the Sapphire convulsed inside him like a dying star struggling desperately to stay lit against a collapsing horizon. His breath came in short, ragged bursts, yet his eyes immediately scanned the arena for the others because he feared more for them than he ever did for himself.Noir emerged across from him on a separate platform, the Phoenix fire swirling violently around his shoulders as the shadow of Solus trembled faintly behind hi
4-26
The Gate shifted again, ripping away the shattered echoes of Andrew’s past and reforming itself into a labyrinth of twisting hallways made of shimmering bone-light that pulsed like a thousand dying stars trapped under glass. Each corridor reflected pale gold and eerie emerald hues, weaving together like veins of crystallized memory and fractal visions that bent unpredictably with Sahara’s every breath.Sahara stumbled forward, her hands trembling violently, gripping Yuki’s arm tightly enough to leave faint bruises as the Emerald Shadow inside her thrashed like a beast caught in a too-small cage. Her blind eyes glowed in waves—now emerald, now white, now streaked with shades no human tongue had words to describe. Every step she took left trails of shimmering energy that flickered and dissolved, as though time itself rejected her presence.Yuki steadied her desperately, drawing protective sigils around them while her own body shook under the Gate’s oppressive psychological pressure. “Sa
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