Chapter 5737 Unyielding Darkness
- "H-him? How-how can he be here? No… Impossible!"
- Despair quaked through the Soul Devourer's voice, as though he had glimpsed a fate crueler than death itself.
- Jared stood slack-jawed, blood dripping from rents in his armor as the impossible turnaround hit him. One heartbeat ago, he had braced for oblivion; now the shock of survival turned his legs to water, and he swayed in the sulfur-tinged gloom. Gritting his teeth, he forced ruined muscles to obey, then lifted his chin toward the jagged tear still hanging in the sky. Beyond that ragged wound stretched a boundless sweep of night—an ocean of constellations so bright they seemed close enough to pluck from the dark.