Chapter 33: The Gathering Tempest
The night sky, once a vast and familiar void, now swirled with the remnants of the shattered Moon, fragments drifting like silent harbingers of the chaos to come. The air crackled with energy, thick with something Kai couldn't quite name—anticipation, perhaps, or the distant whisper of something far older than humanity itself.
As he led the group through the ruins of what had once been a thriving metropolis, he couldn't shake the feeling that they were being watched. Not by human eyes, nor even by the creatures that had begun to emerge in the wake of the catastrophe, but by something else entirely. Something unseen.
Juno moved beside him, her steps careful but unhesitating. "You think that thing back there was telling the truth?" she asked, keeping her voice low. "About the Harbinger?"
Kai exhaled slowly, his gaze locked on the road ahead. "I don't think we have the luxury of doubting it."@@novelbin@@
Reyes, who had been scanning the area with her handheld device, let out a frustrated sigh. "The energy signatures are all over the place. Whatever’s happening, it’s accelerating. If we don’t start securing these fragments now, we’re going to lose them to the first power-hungry warlord who stumbles onto them."
Kai nodded. That was the part that worried him the most. In the beginning, the fragments had seemed like a miracle—an unexpected gift in the wake of disaster. But now, he saw them for what they really were: the remnants of something ancient, something powerful, and something that could tip the balance of the world in either direction.
If the wrong people got their hands on them, Earth wouldn't just be broken. It would be lost.
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