Chapter 176
The thing beneath the mountain slammed upward again hard enough to shake the entire territory.
Another section of the council hall collapsed into darkness while stone pillars cracked around the chamber. Wolves rushed desperately toward the exits, pushing past one another in panic as dust and broken stone rained from the ceiling. Outside, dragon roars thundered continuously across the night sky while the mountain itself groaned beneath the pressure rising from below.
But Ariana barely noticed any of it.
Her attention remained fixed entirely on Kael.
Something inside him had changed the moment the voice called him Guardian. She could feel it clearly now through the bond between them. The pressure surrounding him no longer felt like ordinary wolf instincts or even the Lycan struggling for control. It felt older than that, like something ancient buried deep inside him had finally awakened.
