Chapter 96: Rebuilding
The malevolent glow from the cracks suddenly dimmed, then disappeared completely.
The guardian blinked in surprise, his silver eyes searching the sealed rifts. "That's... impossible," he whispered. "The source should be breaking through by now." Liana stepped forward, studying the now-dormant cracks.
Through her transformed senses, she felt something unexpected—not darkness trying to enter their world, but their world actively rejecting it. "The connections," she realized. "When the network changed, it didn't just change us. It changed the entire realm."
Around them, the supernatural community that had been braced for another catastrophic battle slowly started to relax.