Chapter 168 The Ground Splits

Lio

Sunset stained the sky the color of old blood. The stream separating Ashwood from the Cursed Forest shimmered beneath the fading light, while long shadows stretched beneath the ancient trees.

I stood at the water's edge with my staff planted firmly before me.

Beside me, Andreas knelt with...

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 Dust Rat

2. Chapter 2 Come to Me

3. Chapter 3 Flicker of the Impossible

4. Chapter 4 From Violet to Dust

5. Chapter 5 The Ghost in Velvet

6. Chapter 6 Mercy's Cruel Glint

7. Chapter 7 Say Goodbye

8. Chapter 8 The Tunnel Beneath the Trunks

9. Chapter 9 Shelter in the Hollow

10. Chapter 10 The Girl Who Did Not Arrive

11. Chapter 11 Underestimated

12. Chapter 12 Desperation's Path

13. Chapter 13 The Last Friend

14. Chapter 14 Obedience Is Not Optional

15. Chapter 15 Crown and Serpent

16. Chapter 16 Amethyst Eyes

17. Chapter 17 The Gates of the Veiled Sanctum

18. Chapter 18 The Maiden's Bargain

19. Chapter 19 The Dragon's Claim

20. Chapter 20 The Rite of Awakening

21. Chapter 21 Shadow of Wings

22. Chapter 22 The Man in the Dragon

23. Chapter 23 An Animorph, a Dragon and Me

24. Chapter 24 Alone, With Him

25. Chapter 25 A Breath Between Worlds

26. Chapter 26 Frozen

27. Chapter 27 Perfect

28. Chapter 28 Full, Warm, Seen, Wanted

29. Chapter 29 Starved

30. Chapter 30 Eleven Years Ago

31. Chapter 31 Trust the Sky

32. Chapter 32 The Trinity

33. Chapter 33 Wolf Food

34. Chapter 34 Prefect Arclight

35. Chapter 35 Wine

36. Chapter 36 Black-eyed Fury

37. Chapter 37 Lumenflare

38. Chapter 38 The Five Kingdoms

39. Chapter 39 Dragon Sword of Valyn

40. Chapter 40 Foresight

41. Chapter 41 White Robes, Dark Secrets

42. Chapter 42 A Teacher's Confession

43. Chapter 43 Shield-maiden

44. Chapter 44 Full Bellies, Empty Promises

45. Chapter 45 Aim Small

46. Chapter 46 Bruises

47. Chapter 47 Tree House

48. Chapter 48 The Last True King of Aetheria

49. Chapter 49 First Kiss

50. Chapter 50 Proof and Consequence

51. Chapter 51 The Flapping

52. Chapter 52 Burnt Orange

53. Chapter 53 Descent into Dust

54. Chapter 54 The Dusty Hills

55. Chapter 55 Gold for a Child

56. Chapter 56 The Girl in Rags

57. Chapter 57 Owls, Rats and Perfume

58. Chapter 58 No Longer Sera Bale

59. Chapter 59 Escape from Dust

60. Chapter 60 Stitches

61. Chapter 61 The Vanishing Britha

62. Chapter 62 Old Friend, Old Enemy

63. Chapter 63 Veilbreaker

64. Chapter 64 Walking Through His Mind

65. Chapter 65 Elyndra's Devotion

66. Chapter 66 An Emperor's Debt

67. Chapter 67 The Emperor's Move

68. Chapter 68 She Who Knows His Name

69. Chapter 69 The Sorceress' Claim

70. Chapter 70 Not Without My Wife

71. Chapter 71 Coming Home

72. Chapter 72 Following the Magic

73. Chapter 73 The World Could Wait

74. Chapter 74 The Ridge Ahead

75. Chapter 75 Dragons Are Real

76. Chapter 76 News Has Spread

77. Chapter 77 Waste Land

78. Chapter 78 Not Her

79. Chapter 79 Threads of Pleasure and Poison

80. Chapter 80 The Intentional Meet

81. Chapter 81 Eyes, Lies and Cries

82. Chapter 82 The Watcher of the Flame

83. Chapter 83 The Emperor's Arrival

84. Chapter 84 I Will Not Kneel

85. Chapter 85 The Collars Beneath the Flame

86. Chapter 86 Controlled Chamber

87. Chapter 87 Blood Donors

88. Chapter 88 The Future in Black Eyes

89. Chapter 89 Return to Arcanis

90. Chapter 90 Vaelric Sable Valcor, Dark Prince

91. Chapter 91 The Valcor Curse

92. Chapter 92 The Twin in Glass

93. Chapter 93 The Unchosen Heir

94. Chapter 94 One Night With Azerath

95. Chapter 95 Even If It Takes Forever

96. Chapter 96 Cell Number Three

97. Chapter 97 Stand Down

98. Chapter 98 Unbound

99. Chapter 99 An Unseen Flaw

100. Chapter 100 Door to Arcanis

101. Chapter 101 Prison Break

102. Chapter 102 The Courtyard Uprising

103. Chapter 103 The Hammer of Aetherion

104. Chapter 104 Sunless Creek

105. Chapter 105 Reverence Beneath the Water

106. Chapter 106 Valley Warden

107. Chapter 107 The Song in the Silt

108. Chapter 108 The Black Crown Ascends

109. Chapter 109 Chocolates and Cherry Pie

110. Chapter 110 The Last Arboran

111. Chapter 111 Two Dozen Wives

112. Chapter 112 The Crown of Storms

113. Chapter 113 Murk

114. Chapter 114 The Catastrophic Telepathic Announcement

115. Chapter 115 The Whispering Hills

116. Chapter 116 The Dragon at Whispering Hills

117. Chapter 117 Even the Stone Remembers

118. Chapter 118 Celestial Needed

119. Chapter 119 Colossus

120. Chapter 120 The Hills Are Alive

121. Chapter 121 The Black Crown

122. Chapter 122 The Jailer Returns

123. Chapter 123 Colossus Cries

124. Chapter 124 The Dangling Astrealis

125. Chapter 125 The Empress' Court

126. Chapter 126 The Shadow King

127. Chapter 127 The Royal Wing

128. Chapter 128 A Third Valen

129. Chapter 129 Shadow Servant

130. Chapter 130 A Cat, a Tailor and a Blushing Bride

131. Chapter 131 Murkroot Red

132. Chapter 132 A Party

133. Chapter 133 The Game of Truth and Blood

134. Chapter 134 A Shadow's Plea

135. Chapter 135 The War Room

136. Chapter 136 The Kneeling Dragon

137. Chapter 137 The Guardian

138. Chapter 138 The Final Heir

139. Chapter 139 The Occupation

140. Chapter 140 Bait

141. Chapter 141 The Trap

142. Chapter 142 The Shepherd

143. Chapter 143 Bells of War

144. Chapter 144 The Tower Above the Inferno

145. Chapter 145 The Fall of Kade's Citadel

146. Chapter 146 The Heart of an Emperor

147. Chapter 147 Broken Wings

148. Chapter 148 The Last Prayer

149. Chapter 149 The Last Dragon Wept

150. Chapter 150 No One Will Remember You

151. Chapter 151 Thump

152. Chapter 152 Blink

153. Chapter 153 The Last Phoenixes

154. Chapter 154 A Single Tear

155. Chapter 155 The King Who Never Died

156. Chapter 156 Ebony

157. Chapter 157 A Wolf's Wish

158. Chapter 158 False Prophecies

159. Chapter 159 The Condemned

160. Chapter 160 The Purest Blood

161. Chapter 161 An Emperor Ignored

162. Chapter 162 The Kill Order

163. Chapter 163 The Last Refuge

164. Chapter 164 This One's For Bram

165. Chapter 165 Operation: Free Azerath

166. Chapter 166 Look to the Skies

167. Chapter 167 The Master Key

168. Chapter 168 The Ground Splits

169. Chapter 169 The Vault

170. Chapter 170 Feed Me

171. Chapter 171 Shattered Memories

172. Chapter 172 The Loudest Heartbeat

173. Chapter 173 The Dragon, the Beast and the Puppet King

174. Chapter 174 The Taste of Dragon Blood

175. Chapter 175 Kneel

176. Chapter 176 Home

177. Chapter 177 Epilogue

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