Chapter 45

Unwed

Rows of onyx columns, split in the middle by a million marble stairs paving the path to the Gods. Carved with figures of the Primal Beasts, the towering masses forced my neck to strain unbearably. Empyrean buzzed through my veins like ripples of lightning over the Volos and Veles mountains.

Zhuang Li’s library greeted me with its larger-than-existence exterior as I stood exactly where my flaw once had, pendant still thrumming with energy from the ......