Chapter 993 – A Demon Offering Salvation
The glow in Lux's eyes spread across the bark beneath his bleeding fingers, then into the pale trunk, then into the woman trapped inside it. The first elf's eyelids fluttered again. Her lips parted, but no word came out.
The shrine around them dimmed.
And then the truth opened.
It did not appear like a neat screen.
The vision unfolded across the roots, the walls, the floor, and the shallow water channels like memory being forced to confess.
Ash.
Old Hell.
Not the polished hierarchy of modern infernal courts. Not Kaelmor's perfected throne rooms and propaganda banners. This was an older Hell, rougher, wider, crowded with lesser sigils and minor bloodlines trying to survive beneath stronger houses.
Among them were demons carrying the same mark.
The Ash Ledger Kin.
