Chapter 124 The Choice That Breaks Stone

• The chamber screamed as if alive.
• The final chain flared white-hot, runes collapsing in on themselves as the platform lurched downward with a violent shudder. Stone sheared from the ceiling, crashing into the abyss below in a rain of sparks and dust. The Third Flame responded instinctively—surging upward in a violent backlash that made the air burn.
• Lucia cried out, dropping to one knee as the power tore through her chest.