chapter twelve
Hero Walks
Collapse for Gervin’s goblin takeover would ultimately be due to something deeper than just weakness. It was because they had never been worthy of standing against what Drake and his father represented.
Their illusions, their lies, and their hunger for power, all of it would crumble beneath the weight of the eternal justice that Drake was destined to deliver. The truth was being unleashed, and there would be no turning back from it.
Drake did not fight as a warrior, nor as a king or pretender thus, but as something else entirely. He was reckoning itself.
People, still hidden and in shelter or sneaking around to avoid the guards or gangs, watched in horrified fascination. Some began to cheer, even loudly and openly, as Drake wiped the streets of Solipsia’s foe
