Chapter 348: Echoes of the abyss
Chapter : The Echoes of the Abyss
Timeline: The Day of the Fall
Location: Sunfire Mountain Range – Hidden Void Sanctuary
Hidden deep within the jagged, volcanic peaks of a hidden Mountain Range, barely fifty miles from the smooth, silent crater that had once been the Imperial Capital , lay a cavern of absolute, suffocating darkness.
This was the Eastern Command Sanctuary of the Twilight Association . It was a sprawling, subterranean cathedral carved entirely from petrified beast bone and obsidian, illuminated only by the sickly, pulsating purple light of corrupted Abyssal mana crystals. For over a decade, it had served as the nerve center for the Cult’s infiltration of the Dragon Empire.
At the center of the cavern, a massive Magitech projection screen floated above a sacrificial altar made of coagulated blood and shadow.
It was broadcasting the live feed that had just hijacked every communication network across the continent of Elias .
Thousands of Void Cultists, draped in tattered, writhing purple robes, stood packed in the cavern . They were deadly silent, their faces hidden behind bone masks, their eyes glued to the towering projection.
On the screen, a boy with silver-white hair and terrifying heterochromatic eyes—one an abyssal black, the other a blazing dragon gold —stared down at them
. The jagged cross-shaped pupils in his eyes seemed to pierce through the magical transmission, carrying a weight that made the cultists’ skin crawl.
"The Dragon Empire is dead," Damien Voss’s voice echoed through the cavern, vibrating with the tyrannical, crushing weight of his 8th-Order Greedy King’s Intent , .
"From this day forward, the Voss family rules this empire. And everything I did today... was for the revival of my family."