Chapter 21: First Trail - V

Chapter 21: First Trail - V

Fifty miles from the pulverized riverbank, at the jagged, smoking base of the Savage Lands’ volcano, the Avatar of War was sweating. Gideon stood at the edge of a bubbling magma trench, staring up at the golden system sky. His blood red platinum armor, forged in the divine fires of his Sovereign, felt suffocatingly tight. He had just watched the broadcast. Every surviving Avatar on the continent had watched it.

Silas was dead, and his domain, the Silent Grave, had been ripped apart from the inside. The anomaly had severed his own shadow to break the transfer, and then executed a Legendary Avatar with a single throw of a scythe.

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