Chapter 374 The Broken Realm

• Ariella and Kaelen stood at the edge of the spirit realm’s threshold, their eyes meeting in quiet understanding. The trials they had just faced—separate, yet intertwined—had changed them. The path to purification had been grueling, testing the very core of their being. Ariella’s hands still tingled with the residue of her magic, while Kaelen’s heart carried the weight of his ancestors’ power, now controlled and channeled through his will.
• Levi, the gatekeeper to the spirit realm, stood atop a rocky outcrop, watching them with his knowing gaze. His appearance was striking—a young man with a sharp goatee and wild, bard-like hair that framed his face, giving him a disheveled yet enigmatic air. His robes shimmered with the faint glow of ethereal magic as his staff thudded against the ground, causing ripples in the air around him.
• “You have both passed the trials,” Levi said, his voice as calm and steady as the flowing river of time itself. “But purification does not mark the end. It is the beginning of what you must now face.”