Chapter Title: The Shattered Seal
The air around Azrael crackled with power. His footsteps echoed through the cold ruins of Velkar as the energy around him surged, pulsing like a living thing. The ground beneath him seemed to tremble with every movement, and the distant light from the stone platform grew brighter with each passing moment. Azrael could feel it—the very essence of the city’s power was awakening, and it was calling to him. The dark energy inside him, the void fragment, responded, thrumming with an intensity that matched the growing force.
He had known this would happen. The gods had sealed away forces beyond their understanding, and Velkar had been at the center of it all. But the defeat of Velkar, the First, had triggered a chain reaction, and now, Azrael stood on the prec
