Chapter 179
The entire chamber froze the moment the dragon crashed through the council hall wall.
Stone exploded across the floor while dust and shattered debris filled the air, forcing wolves to throw themselves aside to avoid being crushed beneath the dragon's enormous body. The golden dragon landed heavily across the broken chamber floor, its claws tearing deep trenches through the stone while blood poured from the black wounds spreading across its scales.
Ariana felt her stomach tighten immediately.
Those wounds did not look natural.
Dark veins spread slowly beneath the dragon's golden scales like corruption moving through its body, and every breath the creature took sounded strained beneath the weight crushing down on it.
Then Ariana saw who stood on its back.
Mira.
The chamber went completely silent.
