CHAPTER 200 - "Like hell I'm letting you raise a red flag for us."

The last blast of Voidfire faded, leaving the cavern sweltering and silent.

Mala's body—or what was left of it—lay in a warped crater, bubbling with residual cursefire and necrotic sludge. 

Her once towering form had collapsed into a melting heap of stitched flesh and bone. 

The stench alone was offensive enough to start a war.

Raven exhaled slowly as the glow faded from his eyes. The dragon-scale cracks receded, the molten shimmer dimming under his skin. 

His claws withdrew. With a hiss of cooling steam, the transformation ended.

He stood there, bare-chested—his upper clothes long since burned to cinders, replaced by fresh soot and the shimmer of sweat glistening under the lava-light.

His body was cut from marble, scarred and lean, a roadmap of battles etched across golden-bronze skin. Voidfire residue still clung to his arms like glowing tattoos.