Chapter 189
The mountain trembled beneath the world like something enormous was trying to tear reality itself apart.
Ancient symbols carved across the gates below the abyss flickered violently between gold and black while shattered stone collapsed endlessly into the darkness beneath the council hall. Black mist surged upward through the widening breach hard enough to darken the entire chamber while dragons roared across the skies above the territory in growing alarm.
Ariana could feel every one of them through the Sovereign flame.
Their fear crashed violently through the connection between them while enormous golden wings beat restlessly through the storm-darkened skies. Beneath that fear lived something worse, a deep instinctive certainty that whatever was climbing through the gates did not belong in their world.
