Chapter 79 Echoes Of A New Beginning

The soft crackling sound of the ember’s faint glow echoed in the silence, a stark contrast to the violent chaos that had just come to an end. Isla remained kneeling in the ashes of Tobias’s empire, her body exhausted but her senses still alert. She felt the shift in the air before she saw it—something stirred beneath the ground, as if the very earth was responding to a force that shouldn’t have existed anymore. Dominic’s voice broke the stillness, hoarse but steady. “Isla... What is that?”