Chapter 85

• The war room was silent. Too silent. The air was heavy with unspoken fear, thick with the weight of what had just happened.
• The Abyssal Reach had revealed the truth—chaos wasn’t an invader; it was something older, something the Keepers had tried to contain. And now, the prison was failing.
• Kael stood before the suspended forms of Keeper Zareth and Keeper Elyndor, their crystalline stasis fields pulsing softly. These two had been there when the first war was fought. They had seen the First—the beings from the Abyssal Reach—before the Nexus had rewritten history to bury the truth.