Chapter 76 – The Blood Throne
**** Isabelle’s POV ****
I never thought I would live to see the end of it.
The hall is silent in that strange, trembling way that follows violence—when the blood has already been spilled, the bodies already carried away, but the scent of death still lingers in the air like perfume you can’t wash off.
Elysium Hall—once the private court of the Raze Empire—has been remade for this moment. Or maybe “remade” is the wrong word. The marble floors are polished, the chandeliers lit to their full brightness, but no matter how much gold leaf glitters on the high arches, I can still see the stains in my mind’s eye. I still remember the sound of Victor Raze’s voice echoing here, the day he ordered an execution in front of the whole room.
Now his throne—the Blood Thr
