Chapter 79
Third POV
The Devourer’s retreat didn’t bring silence.
It brought collapse.
The moment his shadow imploded, the dead zone shuddered like a creature stabbed through the spine. The cracked sky above them—once unmoving, frozen in a perpetual twilight—twisted violently as if something enormous had grabbed the firmament and tried to peel it open.
A sound rose from the heavens.
Not thunder.
Not lightning.
Not wind.
But the sound of a sky fracturing.
Like crystal being shattered by divine hands.
Gabriella staggered as the ground rippled beneath her feet. Not from weakness—not anymore—but from the sheer force of the realm itself breaking apart.
Rhael steadied her instantly, his palm on her back, breath ragged.
“Gabriella—look.”
She lifted her gaze.
The sky had split from
