Chapter 118

*Elora*

The gate was breaking.

Not slowly. Not like a door creaking open or a fracture widening across time. It broke like a scream that had waited too long to be heard.

And the world listened.

The chamber trembled beneath our feet as the leyline erupted in pulses, the runes carved into the walls blazing to life. The ground split in jagged veins of raw energy. The air swelled with magic too old to