Chapter 77:
THE AWAKENING OF THE FORGOTTEN ONE
The temple trembled around us. The ground cracked beneath my feet, releasing a pulse of raw, suffocating energy. It felt wrong, like something that shouldn’t exist in this world was forcing its way through.
The figure forming in the center of the altar was nothing but a void, a swirling mass of shadows, stretching unnaturally, shifting between solidity and smoke. It had no clear shape, no face, but its eyes were endless. Deep, hollow pits of nothingness that somehow saw everything.
“You have freed me.”
The voice slithered through the air, ancient and vast. It wasn’t spoken. It wasn’t heard.
It felt.
A deep, bone-rattling force that coiled around my ribs, squeezing.
Ethan yanked me backward, his body tense with rage and f
