Shattered allegiance
The estate’s heartbeat had become a drum of madness. Violet fire and the new green energy collided in violent bursts, casting flickering shadows across shattered walls. Dust choked every corner, smoke and sparks tangled in the air, and stone trembled, threatening to crumble into the abyss that writhed beneath them. Alina’s muscles screamed with fatigue, her palms burned where the ring had scorched her flesh, her chest heaved with each jagged breath. The ring pulsed violently, responding not only to her defiance but to the insidious pull of the green figure, whose humanoid form now flickered in detail: impossibly tall, thin, its glowing eyes fixed on her like a predator sizing up its prey. Its fingers stretched toward the ring, and the energy in the room recoiled from it, as if reality its
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