Chapter 113 – Beneath the Ruins

The dust from the Silent Tower's collapse still hung in the air, swirling around the broken stones like ghosts of the past. The group stood in the aftermath, staring at the ruined prison.

Mallory clenched her fists. The Tower is gone. The Guardian was trapped. And whatever was beneath it… is waking up.

The whispers were gone. The heavy presence that had loomed over them within the tower had vanished. But in its place, an even deeper sense of dread settled in Mallory's chest.

Something was coming.

Elara was the first to break the silence. "Well. That went… terribly."

Greg, still bent over and catching his breath, wheezed, "You don't say." He pointed at the ruins. "That was a tower. A giant magic prison. And now it's a pile of rocks. I think that counts as disaster."

Quinn knelt down, brushing away some of the debris. "We need to figure out what exactly was sealed under here. If the Guardian called it a 'true horror'—"