Chapter 332 A Millennium Later

• The Montserrat Ice Prison stood like a scar carved into the frozen earth, a hundred miles north of Sapphire City. Its white stone walls rose like an ancient monolith against the pale sky.
• Built two thousand years ago, it had outlasted empires, wars, and the sudden Ice Age that had swallowed half the planet in a single brutal decade.
• Millions had entered its gates over the centuries. Few had left alive.