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Chapter 89 - The turning point

Thunder echoed across the fractured sky, rain battering the broken glass windows of a forgotten cathedral—its walls charred and roof caved in, yet it now served as shelter for the few left breathing.

The fire in the center cracked weakly. Around it sat the battered remains of heroes—Eve, her golden wings drooping with exhaustion; Xiao Ling, silent and numb; Dr. Jin, tending to a broken teleportation core; and a few scattered, grieving soldiers too stunned to mourn aloud.

They waited for Alexander.

When the heavy doors groaned open, he stepped through—soaked in blood, his eyes vacant, a sword strapped to his back and Ty's broken blade in his hand.

No one spoke.

He didn't sit.

Instead, he walked toward the fire, gaze fixed into the dancing embers. For a long, terrible moment, there was only the storm and the hush of the dying world around them.

Alexander (low, hoarse):

"She's gone."

He dropped the broken blade beside the flames.

Alexander:

"I wasn't there. I promised I'd protect her—and I wasn't there."

He looked at none of them. His voice trembled, but not from grief—from fury.

Alexander:

"I don't know who did it. I don't care if it was a demon, a god, or something else... I will find them. And I will kill them."

The others stirred uneasily.

Eve:

"We need you, Alexander. We have to stay together—"

Alexander (coldly):

"No."

They all froze.

Alexander:

"Staying together... that didn't save Ty. It didn't save the knights. It didn't stop Leviathan. It didn't stop anything."

Alexander: All that training didn't do shit and you know it, training doesn't mean anything against the might of true power."

He turned his eyes to the group—burning with something sharp, dangerous.

Alexander:

"I'm weak. That's the truth. We all are. But I won't stay that way."

He took a step back, sword clinking against his armor.

Alexander:

"I'm leaving."

Xiao Ling (shocked):

"What…?"

Alexander:

"I'm going to become stronger. Strong enough that nothing—nothing—can ever be taken from me again. I need to learn to access that power I once had when I fought against the shadow Emperor. I will Learn every technique, every curse, every power no matter what it costs."

Dr. Jin:

"You don't know what's out there, Alexander. You could lose yourself."

Alexander (quietly):

"I've already lost everything that mattered."

He turned to leave, but paused at the doorway, his figure framed by moonlight and storm.

Alexander:

"When the time comes… I'll return. But I won't be the same."

Eve (softly):

"Alexander…"

He didn't turn back.

Alexander:

"This war isn't yours anymore."

Alexander:

"It's mine now."

And with that, he vanished into the night—alone, wounded, but burning with a new purpose:

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