tes sealed, the G

arcane pressure. They slashed across Alina's leather

walking. She c

l barrier holding her P

fying, ancient vacuum

invisible vortex radiating from her body. The violent magic shattered into raw, harm

eins stretched, burning as the massi

e metallic taste of blood filled he

e began to bleed out. They darkened, shifting into a dee

a step

to the physical world. The heavy stone slab beneath her boot

ning the walls sensed the t

Crack

e blue flames roared, illuminating the ancient, b

light around her. She could feel the fractured pieces of her soul from h

rowl echoed from t

y of unstable purple magic, materialized in the ce

ible, bottomless black hole. The violent arcane magic comprising their bodies was frantically siphoned away. The three hounds froze mid-leap, letting out high-pitched, distorted whines a

ectly into her lungs. The energy hit her core like

ster, treating the deadly execution c

Fifty lanterns.

was blazing with b

tood a set of silver double doors

steps away, the Gauntlet's

ing, condensing into a massive, crackling bolt of purple lightning

ant to vaporize an

y. She stopped, planted her fee

g struck her

e stone walls. Blinding white

les were staring at a monitoring crystal. The cry

" one of the disciples

orridor, the

curled off the torn edges of her jacket. Her

owed the

red. Her magic reserves expanded violently, instantly jumping from a

slow breath. The smoke

the final

doors, all one hundred soul-forged lanterns flare

sly, they all ble

was complet

sed her presence and

sh off her shoulder and wa