Chapter 34: Crimson Win
BOOM.
The ground convulsed in a deafening explosion, earth coughing up smoke and shards of broken stone. A shadow burst through the mist, arms raised in defense, skidding backward across the blood-slick floor.
"He got me…"
Kael's voice was hoarse with disbelief, his eyes saucer-wide. His brain raced faster than his pulse, trying to decipher the chaos Aric had unleashed. A memory flickered — the bottle Aric had handed Kendal back then, the small, odd protuberance affixed to the bottom.
He had dismissed it as ornamentation.
Now, he had seen that same piece beneath his feet. And, just like before, it had detonated.
In Kael’s timeline, Vita-fueled explosives were still experimental. The Lucerna Clan — tyrants of tech within the dome — held the monopoly on such we
