Chapter 182: The Artifex
The obsidian rose lay on the cold silver of the sarcophagus, a perfect, impossible thing. It was flawless, each petal carved with an artist's precision, its surface drinking the ambient light of the Vault. It was not a weapon. It was a statement.
I reached out, not with my hand, but with my senses....
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Bitter Taste of Midnight
2. Chapter 2: Whispers in the Sump
3. Chapter 3: The Keeper of Lost Lore
4. Chapter 4: Foundations of Fire
5. Chapter 5: Embers and Echoes
6. Chapter 6: The Crimson Bloom
7. Chapter 7: The Unmasking Fire
8. Chapter 8: The Searching Eye
9. Chapter 9: Descent into Forgotten Night
10. Chapter 10: Echoes in the Deep Dark
11. Chapter 11: Denizens of the Deep
12. Chapter 12: The Siege of Stillness
13. Chapter 13: Breach in the Ancient Dark
14. Chapter 14: The Ancient Gaze
15. Chapter 15: The Serpent's Debt
16. Chapter 16: Labyrinth of Lost Songs
17. Chapter 17: The Silent Sanctuary
18. Chapter 18: Keepers of the Bloom
19. Chapter 19: The Heart Unveiled
20. Chapter 20: The Well of Echoes
21. Chapter 21: The Weaver's Path
22. Chapter 22: Ripples in the Deep
23. Chapter 23: The Warden's Approach
24. Chapter 24: The Bloom of Accord
25. Chapter 25: Accord with the Ancient
26. Chapter 26: The Hunters' Trail
27. Chapter 27: Weaving the False Song
28. Chapter 28: The Decoy's Echo
29. Chapter 29: Echoes of Purpose
30. Chapter 30: The Sunstone's Weight
31. Chapter 31: The Sunstone Path
32. Chapter 32: The Council's Gambit
33. Chapter 33: The Blight's Accelerating Shadow
34. Chapter 34: The Desperate Plea
35. Chapter 35: Three Days to Unmaking
36. Chapter 36: Race Through the Roots of Night
37. Chapter 37: The Captured Echo
38. Chapter 38: Sunstone Gambit
39. Chapter 39: The Weight of a Moment
40. Chapter 40: Nyxus in Agony
41. Chapter 41: Heart of the Blight
42. Chapter 42: Echoes of Life
43. Chapter 43: The Scars of Victory
44. Chapter 44: The Tethered Spirit
45. Chapter 45: The Spire's Beckoning
46. Chapter 46: The Conduit's Crucible
47. Chapter 47: The Spire Under Siege
48. Chapter 48: The Siege of the Spire
49. Chapter 49: The Spire's Dying Heart
50. Chapter 50: Ashes of the Obsidian King
51. Chapter 51: Sanctum of Ash
52. Chapter 52: Heart of the Spire, Heart of the King
53. Chapter 53: The King's Ember
54. Chapter 54: The Last Ember's Fury
55. Chapter 55: The Dhampir's Offering
56. Chapter 56: The Crimson Pact
57. Chapter 57: The Sunstone Arch
58. Chapter 58: Echoes in the Dark
59. Chapter 59: Conduit of Ancient Night
60. Chapter 60: The Scar's Obsidian Bloom
61. Chapter 61: The Obsidian Repose
62. Chapter 62: The Blood Price of Sanctuary
63. Chapter 63: Sanctuary of Echoing Stone
64. Chapter 64: Resonance of the Heartstone
65. Chapter 65: The Repose Awakens
66. Chapter 66: Echoes of the Heartstone Warden
67. Chapter 67: The Warden's Echo
68. Chapter 68: The Mountain's Plea
69. Chapter 69: The Mountain's Bleeding Wound
70. Chapter 70: Weaving the World-Skin
71. Chapter 71: The Warden's Awakening
72. Chapter 72: The Warden's Sight
73. Chapter 73: The Waymarks of the Warden
74. Chapter 74: The Starlit Abyss
75. Chapter 75: The Guardian at the Threshold
76. Chapter 76: The Dreaming Heart
77. Chapter 77: The Path of Trials
78. Chapter 78: The Weight of the Warden's Mantle
79. Chapter 79: Walking in Nightmare
80. Chapter 80: Mending the Mountain's Memory
81. Chapter 81: Threshold of the Slumbering Heart
82. Chapter 82: Awakening the Stone Heart
83. Chapter 83: The Obsidian King Reborn
84. Chapter 84: Scrying the Shattered City
85. Chapter 85: The Warden's Gambit
86. Chapter 86: Return to the City of Shadows
87. Chapter 87: Veil of Ancient Silence
88. Chapter 88: The Unmaking Rite
89. Chapter 89: Sunstone Against the Corrupt Lord
90. Chapter 90: Unmaking the Usurper
91. Chapter 91: The Void Scar
92. Chapter 92: The Price of Unmaking
93. Chapter 93: Journey into the Chasms of Unknowing
94. Chapter 94: The Sentinel of Stillness
95. Chapter 95: Judgment of the Void
96. Chapter 96: The Stillpoint's Grace
97. Chapter 97: The Warden's New Dawn
98. Chapter 98: Out of the Stillness, Into the Storm
99. Chapter 99: The Stillness Gambit
100. Chapter 100: Through the Teeth of the Void
101. Chapter 101: The Sump's Sorrow, The Warden's Fury
102. Chapter 102: Gambit Against the Void Ward
103. Chapter 103: When the Crimson Bloom Meets the Void
104. Chapter 104: The Warden's Silence, The King's Ascent
105. Chapter 105: The Scion's Return, The Warden's Silence
106. Chapter 106: The Scoured Scar, The Stirring City
107. Chapter 107: The King's Council, The Warden's Stand
108. Chapter 108: The Obsidian King's Decree
109. Chapter 109: The First Tremors of a New Age
110. Chapter 110: Voices from the Sump
111. Chapter 111: The Withering Pits
112. Chapter 112: The Sorrow of the Pits
113. Chapter 113: The Void's Lament Soothed
114. Chapter 114: Whispers of the First Shadow
115. Chapter 115: The First Shadow's Relic
116. Chapter 116: The Umbral Key, The Warden's Doom
117. Chapter 117: The Gaze of the First Shadow
118. Chapter 118: Hunted by the First Shadow
119. Chapter 119: A Song Against Despair
120. Chapter 120: The Unstable Heart of the Void
121. Chapter 121: The Warden's Chain
122. Chapter 122: The Heartstone and the Void
123. Chapter 123: The Warden's Prison
124. Chapter 124: The Eye of the Internal Storm
125. Chapter 125: The Core of Silence
126. Chapter 126: The Warden's Target
127. Chapter 127: The Two Fronts
128. Chapter 128: The Viper's Gambit
129. Chapter 129: The Serpent's Fangs
130. Chapter 130: The Sunstone's Spark
131. Chapter 131: The Viper's Due
132. Chapter 132: The Concord of Shadows
133. Chapter 133: The Convergence Point
134. Chapter 134: The Great Silence
135. Chapter 135: The Judgment of the Land
136. Chapter 136: The World's Weakest Point
137. Chapter 137: The Great Work of Unmaking
138. Chapter 138: The Weaver's Dawn
139. Chapter 139: A Fragile Peace
140. Chapter 140: The Blood Calls to the Wound
141. Chapter 141: The Blight Sovereign
142. Chapter 142: The Fifth Column
143. Chapter 143: The Scholar in the Shadows
144. Chapter 144: The Lair of the Umbral Speaker
145. Chapter 145: The Voice in the Static
146. Chapter 146: The Kill Box
147. Chapter 147: Sanctum Unveiled
148. Chapter 148: A Traitor's Bargain
149. Chapter 149: The Heartstone Gambit
150. Chapter 150: A Duel in the Heart of Power
151. Chapter 151: The Failing Heart
152. Chapter 152: The Beacon and the Gaze
153. Chapter 153: The Wound Opens
154. Chapter 154: The Herald of the Void
155. Chapter 155: The Warden's Argument
156. Chapter 156: A City in Shadow
157. Chapter 157: The Heart of Dawn
158. Chapter 158: A Race Against the Shadow
159. Chapter 159: The Sentinel of the Sun
160. Chapter 160: The Sun-Scorched Maze
161. Chapter 161: A Path of Trials
162. Chapter 162: The Sea of Glass
163. Chapter 163: The Sun-Forged Serpent
164. Chapter 164: The Storm of Sharpest Night
165. Chapter 165: The Shattered Peak
166. Chapter 166: The Strength of Wings
167. Chapter 167: The Sun-Eater
168. Chapter 168: The Emissary of the Dawn
169. Chapter 169: The Leyline Gate
170. Chapter 170: The Return of the King
171. Chapter 171: Emissary Versus Herald
172. Chapter 172: The Dawn of Nyxus
173. Chapter 173: The Unwritten Future
174. Chapter 174: A War of Wills
175. Chapter 175: The Last Chapter of the Night
176. Chapter 176: The Weeping Scar
177. Chapter 177: The Warden's Cage
178. Chapter 178: The Whispering Stone
179. Chapter 179: A War of Grief
180. Chapter 180: The Psychological War
181. Chapter 181: Echoes in the Vault
182. Chapter 182: The Artifex
183. Chapter 183: The Ghost in the Machine
184. Chapter 184: The Unmaking of a Ghost
185. Chapter 185: The Backup Plan
186. Chapter 186: The Ghost's Knowledge
187. Chapter 187: The Artist's Spire
188. Chapter 188: The House of the Artist
189. Chapter 189: The Masterpiece of Ruin
190. Chapter 190: Deconstruction of the Artist
191. Chapter 191: A World Made Whole
192. Chapter 192: The Kaelen-Sera Academy of Unified Arts
193. Chapter 193: The Hungering Silence
194. Chapter 194: The Anathema's Rules
195. Chapter 195: Trial by Silence
196. Chapter 196: The Prison of Silence
197. Chapter 197: The Unsealing
198. Chapter 198: The Sated Void
199. Chapter 199: A Summons from the Sun
200. Chapter 200: The Gilded Cage
201. Chapter 201: The Sun Throne
202. Chapter 202: The Gilded Summit
203. Chapter 203: The Heretical Texts
204. Chapter 204: The Priestess's Gambit
205. Chapter 205: Sanctum of Balance
206. Chapter 206: The Judgment of the Sun Queen
207. Chapter 207: The Road Home
208. Chapter 208: The Last Thread
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