Chapter Twenty-Three
Fire spread through Ardent Vale like a living thing.
Roofs burned. Towers collapsed. Smoke rolled across the streets in thick waves that turned the moonlight red and orange. The city that had once looked peaceful from the mountains now resembled a battlefield carved out of chaos.
And at the center of it all was Varakoth.
The Titan descended from the sky like a falling star. Its massive wings slammed downward with enough force to flatten entire streets beneath a hurricane of wind.
Lyra and I barely managed to keep our footing as the shockwave blasted across the city square.
“Still think this was a good idea?” Lyra shouted.
I watched the massive creature land with a thunderous crash that cracked the stone plaza beneath its claws.
“Ask me again later.”
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