Chapter 5678
The cheers that had been rattling through the main hall of Nethergate Sect were strangled mid-cry, as though an invisible titan had clamped its fist around every throat.
From the platform, Soul Devourer rose-no flourish, no grand gesture, merely standing-but the whole world appeared to pivot on this single point, all gravity rewired to him alone.
Moments ago, the giant had seemed terrifying. Now his menace felt like a firefly before the full moon, a creek set against the boundless sea.
A thunderous rumble rolled overhead, deep enough to shake dust from the broken rafters.
Outside, the sky-already bruised by demonic aura-plunged into total night.
Clouds thick as congealed ink whirled together, churning like a cauldron. No clean lightning flickered there, only faces- thousands of distorted, wailing spirits that flashed and vanished with piercing shrieks.
A wind colder than graves rushed through the shattered doors, whipping robes like tattered flags and probing straight into bone.
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