Chapter 80:
THE BATTLE WITHIN
The moment I let go, the world around me shattered.
The temple, the voices of my friends, the distant sound of Ethan calling my name all of it vanished in an instant. Darkness surged forward, swallowing me whole.
I couldn’t breathe.
I couldn’t move.
I wasn’t in the temple anymore.
I was inside the Forgotten One.
There was a silence everywhere. The space around me wasn’t just dark, it was alive, shifting and watching, whispering words I couldn’t understand.
And then, from the depths of that suffocating void, it spoke.
“You should not have come here.”
The voice echoed through the space, curling around me like a serpent, its tone neither malevolent nor kind. It simply was. A force as old as the stars, as endless as the night.
I clenched my
