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The world reassembled violently after the forbidden merging, hurling Andrew and Noir out of the Gate like two mismatched pieces attempting to fuse before the ritual was complete. They crashed into solid ground—real ground this time—hard enough to crack stone and send dust exploding upward. The smell of fire and iron hit Andrew instantly, along with the distant sound of panic echoing through streets he didn’t yet recognize.Mika landed nearby, coughing. “Where the hell did it throw us?”Rayan pushed himself upright. “Somewhere… awful. I can feel the rent price already.”Yuki helped Sahara steady herself as the trembling child whispered, “This realm is not a Gate. This is… a city.”The dust settled.And it was clear.They were on a cliff overlooking a sprawling metropolis below—its buildings sleek and modern, its roads glimmering with neon, its skyline painted with colors that should have signified safety.But the sky above the city was wrong.Very wrong.Black fire bled across the clou
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The chamber dimmed slowly after Noir’s outburst, as though the walls themselves feared provoking him any further. Golden embers receded into cracks along the ceiling, while the shadowed floor pulsed with residual heat from Noir’s flames. Andrew lay unconscious against Noir’s chest, his breaths shallow but steady, though each inhale seemed painfully reluctant, as if his mortal lungs resisted the divine pressure suffocating the air.Miriam—helm removed, braid disheveled, eyes glowing faintly with the peculiar shimmer of her arcane lineage—ran to Andrew’s side immediately. She wasn’t supposed to be here yet. She wasn’t part of this Gate. But Sahara had opened a path, pulling Miriam in from another section of the ritual labyrinth when the instability threatened to kill Andrew outright.Jiro helped steady her. “You made it in one piece. Good. Because we need you.”Miriam knelt beside Noir, trying not to tense as his flames flared instinctively to protect Andrew. “Noir,” she whispered softl
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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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