Chapter 485 - CH 485 — The Crimson Mark

"What is that mark?" Elara asked, standing at the edge of the underground chamber while the crimson symbol beneath the Council Hall pulsed with a slow, unnatural light that seemed to breathe beneath the ancient stone, and though she had faced political enemies, battlefield threats, and creatures that belonged to legends whispered around dying fires, something about the silent pattern made her instincts recoil as if her blood recognized a danger her mind could not yet name.