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Chapter 71: The Hungers
Author: Kaiza
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An eerie and unnatural void of silence consumed the battlefield. Where Mina and the Amber entity had stood just moments before now lay an empty scar on reality, an echo of their abrupt disappearance. The rubble was silent, except for the slow, curling trails of black energy curling away and into the night. Kaiza was shaking, his arm outstretched at the space where Mina had just stood. A cold, merciless emptiness gnawed at his chest worse than any wound, more suffocating than any curse.

Then the world twisted, suddenly, without warning.

Some force an unseen hand of darkness seized him by the throat and pulled him forward. The battlefield faded to bars of black and red, his body pulled into the maw, consumed in full by the same thing that had come for Mina. It was a fall that had no end, an abyss that had no bottom. The weight of it pressed on his lungs, turning his thoughts to static. The shadows clawed at him, stripping away sensation, devouring everything except pain. That remained.

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