Chapter 5640

Blood poured from the new wounds, soaking Jared’s clothing a deep scarlet.

“Jared!” Sylvia’s voice cracked as tears glazed her eyes, yet she locked her arms at her sides and honored his wish to fight alone.

Jared teetered on the cliff edge of exhaustion, but the fire in his spirit only blazed higher.

He pictured Maxwell, remembered that this sacred palace was meant to be his own dominion, and that these two before him were traitors defiling it.

From that vision surged a defiant force that drove back the darkness pressing on his mind.

I will not fall. I will break them.

Eyes shut, he focused and drew a black-ringed storage ring from his finger, producing the Divine Bow.