Chapter 88: blood ties and broken chains
The silence following their father's arrival was suffocating. His presence was overwhelming—an aura of pure ancient darkness that seemed to pull at their very souls.
Cain stepped in front of Selene instinctively, his jaw tight, his hands crackling with demonic energy. Leo and Eren flanked him without a word. Behind them, Eira stood tall, no longer under control, but fully aware of what her father had once done to her.
Neriah, their mother, watched him with eyes both broken and burning.
"You said you loved us," Leo said, voice laced with fury. "But you used us."
Their father's gaze flicked to Leo. "Love and power are the same to me. You were born for one purpose."
"No," Eren snarled. "We were born for your purpose. But now we live for ours."
Darkness swept across the catacomb. Their father raised a hand—and the stones themselves trembled. Chains made of shadows leapt from the ground, trying to bind them. But the siblings were ready.
Cain's demonic wings burst from his back, slicing through the darkness. His eyes burned red, the full force of his devil's blood unleashed.
Eren flung a wall of blazing white flame toward the shadows, vaporizing the chains.
Leo moved with lightning speed, his daggers spinning like silver light in the gloom.
And then Selene—her power wild and untamed—unleashed a scream that shattered the air like glass. The ground split, violet energy lashing out from her core. Her power pulsed with the force of something ancient, divine.