Chapter 247

Author’s POV

The altar did not fall silently. It fell drastically, the sound it made was terrific. It broke with a sound that did not belong in any world—a deep, cracking roar that seemed to split through bone, through stone, through the air itself. The structure shattered in pieces, thousands of bones collapsing inward as the glowing runes burned wildly before dying out one by one.

For a second… There was silence while the teeam watched in shock. Then suddenly dark energy exploded outward. It burst from the broken altar and the entire temple trembled violently, cracks racing across the obsidian floor. The air thickened with dark smokes that made it hard to even breathe.

“Move!” Lucas shouted, grabbing Sienna’s arm and pulling her back.

But there was nowhere to move to. The curse Raider said had already begun. The