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Chapter 117: The Gaze of the First Shadow

My panicked cry – "I think I just rang the dinner bell" – hung in the cold, charged air of Kaelen’s Solar, a terrifying coda to the Umbral Shard’s silent, malevolent presence. The vision of the Nihilith, of the festering 'Wound within the World', and the ancient, aware consciousness of the First Sha...