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The Vessel Of what Remains

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Chapter 42: The Vessel of What Remains

The fractures did not spread like fire.

They lingered.

Suspended across the land like invisible wounds, each one pulsing faintly with unstable energy, bending light, distorting sound, and warping the very sense of space around them. The world hadn’t collapsed.

It had become… uncertain.

Ethan stood at the edge of one such fracture, the air around it rippling like a reflection in broken glass. He didn’t feel it the way he once would have—no surge of ene
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