Chapter Nineteen
The moment the artifact shattered, the entire chamber erupted into chaos.
Light burst outward in violent waves, flooding the cavern with blinding brilliance. Cracks tore through the stone floor as if the mountain itself could no longer withstand the pressure building inside the chamber.
I grabbed Lyra and pulled her backward just as a massive chunk of the ceiling collapsed where we had been standing seconds earlier.
“Move!” I shouted.
Dust and fragments of rock rained down around us as the ground continued to shake.
The remains of the artifact hovered in the center of the chamber, its crystal fragments suspended in midair by a vortex of swirling energy. Gold, silver, and shadow twisted together violently like a storm trapped in a cage.
But the cage was gone.
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