Chapter 9 - The Breaking of the Chains
Adrian looked at Torren, who met his gaze with a firm nod. He looked down at Julian, who grabbed his hand tightly.
For the first time in ten thousand years, the three brothers of House Veyne stood side by side, not as rivals for a crown, but as family.
They knelt together in a small circle around their mother, placing their hands over one another's hearts.
Over Adrian's chest, the flame of Leadership reignited. Over Torren's chest, the flame of Protection blazed with roaring power. Over Julian's chest, the flame of Wisdom shined with absolute clarity.
The three glowing crests connected, forming a blinding golden sigil that lit up the entire cavern. The three flames merged into a single column of divine sunfire that erupted upward through the earth, piercing through the palace, tearing through the storm clouds, and reaching high into the heavens.
The silver chains binding Eleanor dissolved into brilliant golden dust.
Empowered by the love and unity of her sons, Queen Eleanor rose into the air. Her silvery wings unfurled to their full, majestic span, radiating pure, holy sunlight that illuminated every dark corner of the realm.
She caught her dragon-bone staff as it floated into her hand, its core now burning with the brilliant power of a reborn star.
"You have terrorized my realm and corrupted my children for the last time," Eleanor declared, her voice sounding like a choir of angels.
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She swept her staff downward. A blade of pure, concentrated stellar light slashed through the cavern.
The Shadow Sovereign let out one final, agonizing shriek as the holy light pierced its dark core. The entity shattered into millions of harmless specks of dark dust, swept away forever by the warm sea breeze that flooded into the deep vault.
