Chapter 48 - 47 - To Become the Blade
She lowered her gaze for a moment, looking at the lump of twisted metal resting cold in her palm.
"If my will alone isn’t enough to destroy something... then I’ll destroy it with my own hands. And if even that’s not enough, I’ll create something capable of destroying it."
Her hand clenched tighter, as if crushing something unseen. Her voice remained level, but beneath it, there was a burning intensity—like embers grinding against bone.
"And everything I want to destroy... will be destroyed."
She lifted her head and locked eyes with Riven.
"Even if I have to do it over and over again."
Silence crept back in like a fog.
"I was born to destroy," she whispered, like a sacred confession. "And nothing can stop me."
Riven didn’t know how to respond. His body was rigid—not exactly from fear, but from a sharp awareness, like standing at the edge of a cliff and peering into an abyss whose depth he could not measure.
In front of him sat a woman he had once saved from the brink of death... now claiming to be destruction incarnate. And somehow, some deep part of him refused to dismiss her words as madness.
If it had been anyone else saying those words, Riven might have laughed.