Chapter 794 - 796
The man’s gaze met his.
And for the first time since arriving here ,
Jude felt fear.
"Something that should never wake at all."
The silence was thick, pressing against Jude’s ears as if the very air had weight. He didn’t move. Didn’t breathe. He simply listened. The vibration in the ground was slight, but it was there, a pulse deep beneath the stone, like a distant heartbeat growing stronger. The man standing before him remained still, his storm-gray eyes locked on something beyond the shadows. The weight of his presence had already unsettled Jude, but this ,this was something else. It wasn’t just the words he had spoken. It was the certainty in his tone, the way he didn’t flinch, didn’t waver, as if he had seen the impossible unfold before and knew exactly how this would end.
Jude clenched his jaw. "What’s waking up?"
The man exhaled slowly, then turned those unshaken eyes back to him. "You don’t want to know."
"Then tell me anyway."
A pause. Not hesitation, but something close to consideration. "It has no name. Or rather, it has too many." His voice was steady, but there was an undercurrent of something else. Something old . "It was never meant to be bound by words. Never meant to be known by those who walk the mortal world. It is beyond what you perceive, beyond the limits of thought itself."