CHAPTER 73— THE DEVOURER’S LEGION ATTACKS
Third POV
The warning came not from sound, but from the absence of it.
One moment, the dead zone hummed with its usual eerie wind and faint echoes of long-rotted magic. The next, the air dropped into a silence so absolute Gabriella felt it in her bones. Her breath hitched, her fingers freezing over the stone prophecy wall.
Something ancient had turned its attention toward them.
And it was getting closer.
Gabriella’s spine prickled. She stepped back from the wall, eyes scanning the horizon even though nothing—no shape, no shadow—had yet appeared.
“Do you feel that?” she whispered.
Rhael was the first to react. His head tilted sharply, pupils narrowing. The shadows in his veins pulsed, coiling beneath his skin as if sensing their creator.
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