Chapter 37 – Flames of Istanbul: The Bone Fire Temple Massacre

Opening: City of Shadows and Fire

Istanbul, the bridge between East and West, had always been a city of secrets—home to ancient scrolls, buried alchemical traditions, and centuries-old battlefields where cultivators and demons once clashed under the crescent moon.

In a district tourists never visited, hidden beneath an abandoned Ottoman palace, flickered the ever-burning flames of a demonic cult—The Bone Fire Temple.

They worshiped a flame not of light, but of hunger.

And tonight… the flames would drown in shadow.

Dominion Sky Fortress – High Orbit above Turkey

Above Earth, cloaked in cosmic fog and protected by spiritual void shields, floated a newly-deployed Dominion Sky Fortress—code-named: Eclipse Ark One.

Forged by Chaos Core using blueprints from the Chaos Sect's ancient inter-realm fleets, it was powered by:

A Primordial Crystal Reactor A Dragon Core Furnace A Dark Matter Array Net

Inside its Command Bridge, Rayan stood over a shifting map of Istanbul.

ZeroTrace had already broken into the city's hidden archives. Every hidden tunnel, warded basement, and old cultivation site was exposed.

Kael adjusted his armor beside him. "Bone Fire Temple has over a hundred disciples. At least seven are Abyss-marked."

Rayan replied calmly, "Then we erase them. Fire doesn't scare shadows."

Target Profile – Bone Fire Temple

Cult Name: The Bone Fire Temple

Primary Deity: "Zeroth Flame of the Fallen Star" – an Abyssal Flame Demon

Leader: Grand Flame Priest Sakhariel – Core Spirit Realm

Location: 16 meters underground, Old Sultan Ahmet district

Defensive Structures:

Eternal Flame Walls Soul-Fuel Reservoirs Three-tiered Demonic Flame Arrays

They were burning kidnapped cultivators alive to fuel demonic flames and unlocking ancient infernal weapons once sealed during the Ottoman-Qi Wars.

Operation Crimson Eclipse – Commence

At exactly 3:00 AM, Eclipse Ark One opened its side hangar.

A drop-pod platoon of 32 Dominion operatives launched from the sky like meteors—each sealed in black armor, shielded from satellite or spirit detection.

Inside each pod were:

Chaos-forged flame-resistant suits Null-fire field generators Cold Qi bombs

Inferna, riding her phoenix-shaped spirit flame beast, Ashveil, descended last—sheathed in molten silver and chaos ice.

Rayan, watching from orbit, whispered:

"Erase the cult. Burn the flames. Save the blood."

The Descent: Breaking the Flame Gate

As the Dominion pods slammed into the earth, tremors shook the abandoned palace. Bone Fire guards ignited their torches—only to see their flames flicker and die.

[Chaos Field Deployed: All Infernal Fire Weakened by 78%]

Inferna stepped into the burning gateway and raised her left arm. From her wrist, a weapon unfolded—a Chaos-Flame Cannon, loaded with ice-flame fusion shells.

BOOM!

The front gate shattered into molten shards.

Kael's mutant beasts poured in—climbing walls, dragging guards into the shadows.

Temple Interior – Hall of the Seven Flames

Inside, seven massive braziers stood, each linked to a captured cultivator, their souls drained in real-time to keep the Abyss Flame alive.

"Protect the soul pyres!" screamed Sakhariel, the Grand Flame Priest.

He stood atop a floating platform, wrapped in firecloth armor and wielding a Flame Demon Staff, forged from the fang of the fallen Abyssal Beast Ignathar.

Inferna responded with silence.

She launched six spiritual frost-pulse spears, each aimed at the braziers. They tore through space, hitting three in under a second.

CRACK!

Three flames died. The trapped cultivators screamed in relief, saved just before death.

The Grand Fight – Inferna vs Sakhariel

The flames around Sakhariel rose violently as he chanted an Abyssal hymn.

"The world shall burn again. The Crimson Star rises…"

He released a blast of Eternal Flame, aiming to incinerate the entire chamber.

But Inferna activated her ultimate move—Frozen Inferno Field, a domain where ice and flame coexisted under her control.

As the wave of flame neared, it twisted, froze midair, then reversed—exploding back toward Sakhariel.

BOOM!

His platform cracked. His staff shattered.

"What… are you?" he gasped.

Inferna floated forward, cold eyes glowing.

"I am Dominion. And you… are a shadow of a dying fire."

One more shot.

SHRRRRK!

Her Chaos-Flame Cannon tore through his chest. His body dissolved into ash.

Cleansing the Temple – Full Extermination

Below, Kael's beast squads systematically cleared the rest of the cult:

Bone Warlocks were shattered by cold spike traps. Infernal weapon labs were destroyed by nano-explosives. Children abducted by the cult were rescued and spiritually cleansed by Dominion healers.

By dawn, not a single member of Bone Fire remained alive.

The entire underground was frozen and collapsed by a combination of frost bombs and spiritual ice mines.

Before leaving, Inferna marked the site with a Chaos Sigil.

"Flames once ruled this place. Now only ice remains."

Meanwhile – Rayan's Global Scan

From Eclipse Ark One, Rayan updated the global threat matrix.

Red Zones: Demon-aligned

Yellow Zones: Hidden sect collaborators

Blue Zones: Dominion-controlled

New Alert: Cairo – Necro-Cult Awakening Ancient Egyptian Abyss Lords

Rayan's expression hardened.

"Next target: Cairo. The Tombs of the Bone Kings."

Yulin flew beside him in dragon form. "The dead are rising. Shall we greet them?"

Rayan smiled. "With silence and steel."

Back in Mumbai – Asha Rani Awakens

Asha sat within the Ice Phoenix Meditation Chamber of her sect.

Suddenly, her cultivation flared.

Stage Up: Early Core Formation

Ice Phoenix Body Integration: 62% Complete

She gasped, visions of Rayan flashing through her mind—the way he handed her loot, the flicker of his soul when he gave her a spirit core.

Her heart whispered:

"You're not gone… You're rewriting the world."

She stood, eyes glowing with frost and resolve.

"Then let me walk the same path."

Final Scene: Dominion's Next Move

Back on Eclipse Ark One, Rayan gathered his Pillars.

Each had returned victorious.

A hologram of Earth spun before them.

"One continent at a time," he said.

"We remove corruption, awaken the truth, and rebuild the world."

ZeroTrace highlighted a new signal.

Unknown Spirit Beacon Activated – Antarctica. Source: Ancient Chaos Signal.

Everyone froze.

Rayan narrowed his eyes.

"Then it's time we visit the end of the world."