Chapter 104: Testing!
Once all of that was done, the two of them quickly begun their journey back to the Dragon Clan, talking all the way.
The air was still fragile after the Valley of Dreams collapsed into itself, leaving behind ripples of reality that struggled to align.
Damon and Astralene walked in silence, the ancient paths of the Veiled Hollow unfolding before them as though the world recognized their authority and parted.
But Damon knew better. He knew the Abyss would not forgive disruptions to their plans, and the Abyss never wasted time in completing their missions.
The warning came not as sound, but as silence, too perfect, too deliberate. The kind of silence where even breath felt like an intrusion.
Astralene stopped mid-step.
"They’ve found us," she said, voice sharp.
Damon didn’t ask how, the Abyss always found their way to find their targets, and he had also already felt them.
The sour taste of twisted Aether on his tongue, the subtle pull of corruption threading through the air like poison.
A moment later, the horizon shifted.
Dozens of figures emerged,not from behind trees or over hills, but as if the very space between realities folded and gave them birth. Clad in ragged cloaks, their bodies were etched with Abyssal sigils that pulsed and writhed like living wounds.
But these weren’t ordinary Abyssal cultists. Each one of them radiated a pressure that struck the soul directly.