When Radiance Breed Ruins VII

The air inside the Celestial Seal Castle was thick with incense and the residual hum of enchantments.

Within the grand halls of recuperation, Virelio lay unconscious upon a woven bed of silken threads, his body a husk of its former self, pale and utterly drained.

The aftermath of his prolonged battle against the monstrous entity had left him teetering on the edge of exhaustion, his very life force siphoned by the clinging miasma that still wreathed his form like unseen shackles.

Grand Matriarch Iskayna, draped in layers of celestial-weaved robes, stood at the foot of his resting chamber, her face unreadable as she observed the healers weaving golden threads of recovery around Virelio's body.

Though he had delivered a powerful blow against the entity, the cost had been severe. His pulse was faint, his breath shallow, but he still survived facing off against the monstrosity alone.