Chapters
1. Chapter One: Into the Shadows
2. Chapter Two: The Rogue’s Price
3. Chapter Three: Trial by Fire
4. Chapter Four: The Test
5. Chapter Five: Fractured Loyalties
6. Chapter Six: Lines in the Sand
7. Chapter Seven: Shadows of Betrayal
8. Chapter Eight: Breaking Points
9. Chapter Nine: Fire and Steel
10. Chapter Ten: Echoes in the Dark
11. Chapter Eleven: Whispers of the Past
12. Chapter Twelve: The Calm Before the Storm
13. Chapter Thirteen: The Breaking Point
14. Chapter Fourteen: The Shattered Calm
15. Chapter Fifteen: Truth in the Blood
16. Chapter Sixteen: Bonds Forged in Fire
17. Chapter Seventeen: The Turning Point
18. Chapter Eighteen: Threads of Deception
19. Chapter Nineteen: The Cost of War
20. Chapter Twenty: Rising from the Ashes
21. Chapter Twenty-One: The Catalyst
22. Chapter Twenty-Two: The Howl of Freedom
23. Chapter Twenty-Three: A New Dawn
24. Chapter Twenty-Four: The Alpha’s Pact
25. Chapter Twenty-Five: The Legacy
26. Chapter Twenty-Six: A Promise to the Moon
27. Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Long Night Ends
28. Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Long Night Ends
29. Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Bond Forged in Fire
30. Chapter Thirty: Into the Shadows
31. Chapter Thirty-One: Beyond the Shadows
32. Chapter Thirty-Two: The Howl of Tomorrow
33. Chapter Thirty-Three: The Call of the Wild
34. Chapter Thirty-Four: The Road North
35. Chapter Thirty-Five: Into the Unknown
36. Chapter Thirty-Six: The Gathering Storm
37. Chapter Thirty-Seven: Beneath the Stone
38. Chapter Thirty-Eight: Echoes of Power
39. Chapter Thirty-Nine: Into the Heart of Darkness
40. Chapter Forty: A Fragile Respite
41. Chapter Forty-One: The Hunt
42. Chapter Forty-Two: Fire and Fury
43. Chapter Forty-Three: The Gathering Storm
44. Chapter Forty-Four: The Final Ascent
45. Chapter Forty-Five: The Heart of the Storm
46. Chapter Forty-Six: After the Storm
47. Chapter Forty-Seven: The Calm Before the Storm
48. Chapter Forty-Eight: Into the Unknown
49. Chapter Forty-Nine: Beyond the Veil
50. Chapter Fifty: The Trial of Unity
51. Chapter Fifty-One: The Final Trial
52. Chapter Fifty-Two: A New Dawn
53. Chapter Fifty-Three: The First Strike
54. Chapter Fifty-Four: No Way Out
55. Chapter Fifty-Five: A Dangerous Edge
56. Chapter Fifty-Six: Before the Storm
57. Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Calm Before the Storm
58. Chapter Fifty-Eight: Into the Lion’s Den
59. Chapter Fifty-Nine: Blood and Betrayal
60. Chapter Sixty: The Edge of Darkness
61. Chapter Sixty-One: The Battle for Survival
62. Chapter Sixty-Two: When the Gods Arrive
63. Chapter Sixty-Three: The Shadow’s Judgment
64. Chapter Sixty-Four: Into the Rift
65. Chapter Sixty-Five: The Realm Beyond
66. Chapter Sixty-Six: The Chains of Fate
67. Chapter Sixty-Seven: The Forgotten and the Forsaken
68. Chapter Sixty-Eight: The Shattered Realm
69. Chapter Sixty-Nine: Into the Abyss
70. Chapter 70: Between Life and Oblivion
71. Chapter 71: The Shattered Veil
72. Chapter 72: Echoes of the First Alpha
73. Chapter 73: The Hunt Begins
74. Chapter 74: The Blood Moon Rising
75. Chapter 75: The Forsaken's Judgment
76. Chapter 76: Descent into the Abyss
77. Chapter 77: Shadow and Flame
78. Chapter 78: The Unseen Chains
79. Chapter 79: The Edge of Oblivion
80. Chapter 80: The Gathering Storm
81. Chapter 81: The Rift Between Worlds
82. Chapter 82: Into the Abyss
83. Chapter 83: Echoes of the Divine
84. Chapter 84: The Depth Below the Flame
85. Chapter 85: Chapter 85: Between the Echoes
86. Chapter 86: The Shattered Horizon
87. Chapter 87: The Breaking Line
88. Chapter 88: Blood Price
89. Chapter 89: The Door That Shouldn't Exist
90. Chapter 90: The Hollow Face
91. Chapter 91: The Choice That Breaks
92. Chapter 92: The Other Sera
93. Chapter 93: The Test of the Bound
94. Chapter 94: What Remains After the Shatter
95. Chapter 95: The Sleeper Wakes
96. Chapter 96: Pillars of Defiance
97. Chapter 97: The Core Remembers
98. Chapter 98: What Comes After the Storm
99. Chapter 99: Not All Ties Were Broken
100. Chapter 100: The Pact Was Never Meant to Hold
101. Chapter 101: To Meet the Unbound
102. Chapter 102: Beneath the Bones
103. Chapter 103: The Blood That Wrote the Pact
104. Chapter 104: Between the Heartbeats
105. Chapter 105: The God Beneath the Thread
106. Chapter 106: The Silence-Eater’s Cage
107. Chapter 107: Through the Mouth of Silence
108. Chapter 108: What Follows the Rewrite
109. Chapter 109: We Who Are Still Tethered
110. Chapter 110: The Oath That Was Never Spoken
111. Chapter 111: In the Eyes of the Bond
112. Chapter 112: Threads That Bleed
113. Chapter 113: What the Bond Remembers
114. Chapter 114: The Living Thread
115. Chapter 115: The Child Without a Thread
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Chapter 97: The Core Remembers
Stepping Through
Sera and Kael stepped into the Core hand in hand.
There was no sensation of motion. No wind. No flash of light. Just existence, raw and vibrating.
At first, they saw nothing.
Then—everything.
The stars of the Veil.
The fires of Ashfall.
The orphanage. The battlefields. The Vault.
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