Chapter 64 – The General of Silence

The battlefield grew still. Even the shrieking voidspawn lingered at the edges, no longer daring to advance.

From the rift, a figure emerged.

Not a beast. Not a mindless shadow.
A man—or something that once resembled one.

His armor was blackened silver, corroded as if centuries had passed in an instant. Chains hung from his arms, each link etched with runes that glowed faintly red. His face was concealed by a helm of bone, yet two burning lights stared from within.

When he spoke, his voice echoed like a chorus of the dead.
“Who dares defy the Silence?”

Soldiers faltered. Some dropped to their knees under the weight of his presence. Seris gritted her teeth, clutching her staff, her barrier shuddering.

Kael stepped forward, sword steady in his grasp. “If you mean to end this world, you’ll have to cut through me first.”

The general tilted his head.
“You carry the scent of oblivion. A stray fragment… forgotten by fate. You should not exist.”

Kael’s grip tightened. “And yet I do.”

The general raised his chained arm. The links rattled like distant thunder, and the air thickened, pulling at Kael’s soul. “Then I shall unmake you myself.”

The world exploded into motion.

Chains lashed outward, tearing through stone and soil, striking with enough force to level towers. Kael met them head-on, his blade sparking as steel clashed with the unnatural weight of the void.

Mira lunged at the general’s side, her strikes swift as lightning—but the chains moved with unnatural precision, knocking her aside like a ragdoll.

Seris roared, hurling a storm of light toward the helm. For a heartbeat, the glow dimmed—yet the general only laughed, a sound that curdled blood.

Kael forced his way through the storm of chains, his sword burning brighter, resonating with the defiance in his soul. The clash of each strike cracked the battlefield itself.

Still, the general stood unmoved.
“You fight as though you seek to carve a place in history. But history will never remember what does not belong.”

Kael’s answer was a roar as he drove his blade forward, sparks scattering like stars—

And the battle of Silence truly began.