Chapter 140
Author: Perfect Pen
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The wind had stopped.

There was no sound anymore. Not even the sound of their own breathing.

The sky—if it could still be called that—was cracked wide open, like glass that had been dropped from the heavens. Beyond it, darkness churned. Not empty darkness, but alive. Moving. Watching.

Kael stood at the edge of it all, his fists clenched, his pulse thundering in his ears.

He had faced monsters. Gods. His own brother. Himself.

But nothing… nothing had ever made him feel like this.

Not until now.

Because they weren’t just coming.

They were here.

From the breach in the sky, shapes descended.

Not ships.

Not beings.

Not anything that made sense.

They shimmered and shifted, like liquid shadows draped in light. Their forms refused to settle. No eyes, no mouths—just moving, breathing erasure. Wherever they passed, the world disappeared. Ground dissolved. Stone turned to vapor. Even the memory of what was there—gone.

Not broken. Erased.

Pamela took a slow step back. Her lips parted, but no soun
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