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For a moment, after the constructs crumbled into dust, the chamber stilled.The dual energies—gold and shadow—receded into the walls like retreating tides, leaving the air eerily quiet. Too quiet. A silence so absolute it felt sharpened, like the edge of a blade pressed lightly against the back of every heir’s neck.Andrew leaned against Noir, breath trembling, body still weakened from the prior trials. Noir held him cautiously, not out of fragility but fear—the fear that one wrong grip, one wrong heartbeat, one wrong resonance might harm Andrew through their new bond.“Are you okay?” Noir murmured, his voice low and rough.Andrew nodded slowly. “Yeah… just tired. But I can move.”Noir didn’t let go.Jiro wiped sweat from his brow. “We need to keep moving before Solus tries anything again.”Yuki’s head snapped toward him. “Don’t say that name so casually. The Gate reacts to him.”Rayan pointed nervously at the air. “Uh… speaking of reactions… does anyone else hear that rattling noise?
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The next realm opened like a lung inhaling light, drawing the team into a vast chamber suspended between two conflicting realities—one half drenched in searing gold fire, the other drowned in suffocating shadow. The line dividing the halves ran straight through the floor like a scar across creation, pulsing rhythmically with dissonant energies that collided like two hearts beating out of sync.Andrew stepped in first, Noir at his side, the others forming a protective circle around them as they walked cautiously across the unstable surface. Each footstep sent ripples of distorted gravity across the two-toned ground, bending the air like heated glass. The dual energies vibrated heavily, forcing even the strongest among them to grit their teeth against the unnatural pressure.Yuki held Sahara’s hand as the child trembled, her blind eyes glowing in frantic pulses. “The Gate is trying to merge energies,” Sahara whispered shakily. “It’s aligning something… something important… something dan
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Andrew’s body descended slowly, carried by gentle waves of blue-white luminescence that shimmered like liquid starlight before dissolving into the chamber’s dim light. His feet touched the ground first, but his knees buckled immediately—Noir lunged forward instinctively, catching him before he could fall again. Andrew’s chest rose and fell with steady breaths, but the rhythm felt unfamiliar, as though the Sapphire inside him beat to a tempo he had never heard before.The others gathered around him cautiously, unsure whether to celebrate or brace for another collapse. The air hummed faintly, thick with residual power from the ritual, still vibrating through their bones like the echo of a cosmic chord slowly fading into silence.Andrew blinked slowly, his newly formed irises glowing with an unnatural shade of pale sapphire threaded faintly with white. The change was subtle yet undeniable—his gaze felt deeper, emptier, older, and far more fragile than before.Yuki reached forward hesitan
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The moment Solus hissed its threat, the Gate reacted as though an earthquake rippled through its very bones, sending thunderous shockwaves outward that cracked every platform, wall, and floating structure with terrifying speed. The once-stable sphere of symbols surrounding the heirs fractured into spinning shards, each shard glowing violently before bursting into raw energy that rained down like fragments of collapsing constellations.Andrew stumbled backward, clutching his chest as the Sapphire flickered so weakly it barely illuminated the veins running across his skin. Noir lunged forward, shielding Andrew instinctively with one arm even though his own flames sputtered erratically, torn between Phoenix fire and the corrupt shadow twisting deeply through him after the previous trial.Sahara screamed as the visions in her head surged like tidal waves, her hands clawing at her temples. “The Gate is collapsing! The structure—this entire realm—it’s destabilizing too fast!”Yuki grabbed h
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The Gate did not shift gently this time. It detonated.Light—not white, not gold, but a blinding fusion of every spectrum that ever existed—erupted outward, consuming the chamber like a supernova blooming in slow motion. The ground vanished beneath their feet. The ceiling dissolved into sky. The sky dissolved into nothing. Reality peeled itself open like a curtain pulled by invisible hands that belonged to something ancient enough to shape worlds without touching them.Andrew fell first, his body too weak to resist the gravitational collapse forming in the center of the void. Noir reached for him instantly, movements instinctive and frantic—but invisible force gripped both of them and pulled them apart.Yuki screamed Andrew’s name.Sahara called Noir’s name.Jiro cursed under his breath.Rayan yelled something incoherent.Mika reached for anyone she could touch.Then everything stopped.The void around them froze into a sphere of glowing symbols—runic shapes rotating slowly like celes
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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
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