tes sealed, the G
arcane pressure. They slashed across Alina's leather
walking. She c
l barrier holding her P
fying, ancient vacuum
invisible vortex radiating from her body. The violent magic shattered into raw, harm
eins stretched, burning as the massi
e metallic taste of blood filled he
e began to bleed out. They darkened, shifting into a dee
a step
to the physical world. The heavy stone slab beneath her boot
ning the walls sensed the t
Crack
e blue flames roared, illuminating the ancient, b
light around her. She could feel the fractured pieces of her soul from h
rowl echoed from t
y of unstable purple magic, materialized in the ce
ible, bottomless black hole. The violent arcane magic comprising their bodies was frantically siphoned away. The three hounds froze mid-leap, letting out high-pitched, distorted whines a
ectly into her lungs. The energy hit her core like
ster, treating the deadly execution c
Fifty lanterns.
was blazing with b
tood a set of silver double doors
steps away, the Gauntlet's
ing, condensing into a massive, crackling bolt of purple lightning
ant to vaporize an
y. She stopped, planted her fee
g struck her
e stone walls. Blinding white
les were staring at a monitoring crystal. The cry
" one of the disciples
orridor, the
curled off the torn edges of her jacket. Her
owed the
red. Her magic reserves expanded violently, instantly jumping from a
slow breath. The smoke
the final
doors, all one hundred soul-forged lanterns flare
sly, they all ble
was complet
sed her presence and
sh off her shoulder and wa
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