Chapter 160: Fae Magic Tests
PRINCE ASH POV
Ice exploded from my hands as something huge crashed through the dimensional barrier.
"Everyone get back!" I shouted, putting up a wall of frozen air between us and whatever horror had just entered our world. But my Winter Fae magic felt weak against this new threat - like trying to freeze fire itself.
Through the ice crystals, I could see something that made my eternal blood run cold. It wasn’t Elena, and it wasn’t any creature I recognized from ages of supernatural knowledge. It was like looking at a hole in reality shaped like a person, but wrong in every possible way.
"What is that thing?" Viktor gasped, stumbling backward.
"A Void Walker," Dmitri said sadly. "The beings Elena has been working for all along."
My ice wall cracked under the creature’s presence, not from any attack, but just from being near something so fundamentally wrong. As a Winter Fae prince, I’d been told that our magic could freeze anything. But you can’t freeze something that doesn’t really exist.
"We need to know exactly what we’re fighting!" I called out to the others. "Lily, I need to test your true nature before this gets worse!"
"Now?" Sage yelled back. "In the middle of this chaos?"
"Especially now!" I answered, pulling out a crystal shard that had been in my family for a thousand years. "Fae magic can show the truth about any being’s essence. If we’re going to save reality, we need to understand what Lily really is!"
Lily looked at me with confusion still clouding her eyes. "I don’t understand. I’m just an omega monster."
"No," I said strongly, raising the Truth Crystal. "You’re something much more. And we need to know what before that Void Walker kills us all."