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Chapter 16 - Chapter Sixteen

The Center of Dimness

The sky was obscured more than, a thick layer of shadowiness reaching out across the horizon like even the sky had some awareness of the battle that planned to spread out. The town kept even headed, unnecessarily quiet, as Selene and Ronan set up for their best game-plan. The revelation of the soul limiting judgment had troubled them strongly, but there was no an open door to deal with their sensations of fear. The berate was still out there, mentioning more.

Ronan had barely napped the night before, his mind consumed with the chance of how significant the chide's establishments had created. It wasn't just an issue of perseverance any longer — it was a trial of expertise and perseverance to keep the duskiness from ensuring some different option from their blood. Yet again as he and Selene gathered supplies for their interaction into the forest, an infection settle settled over them both.

"We truly need to track down the source, whatever holds the castigate's heart," Ronan said, fixing the lashes on his pack. "That accepting that we destroy, we could get an open door."

Selene motioned, but her considerations were elsewhere. "However, accepting it's bound to us — our spirits — what happens when we decimate it? What will it take from us?"

Ronan's look loose as he looked at her. "We'll address that worry when we get to it. Right now, we just need to focus in on finding it."

The substantialness of the dark hung enthusiastically between them, yet there might have been no other decision. They expected to continue. The forest expected, its shadows creating as the scold's presence grew further.

The Trip Into the Abyss

The way to the center of the forest area was long, the trees creating denser and more twisted the further they went. Each step felt like they were walking around the mouth of something alive, something obsolete. The air was thick with the smell of saturated earth and decay, and the calm was harmful, broken basically by an irregular mixing of leaves or the distant call of an owl.

As they meandered further in, Selene felt a strange draw, similar to the real woods was guiding her, calling her toward something more significant. It wasn't comparable to the fantasies she'd experienced beforehand — this was more intuitive, even more veritable. She could feel the charm around them, the remnants of the scold at this point grasping to the land.

"Do you feel that?" she asked, her voice calmed.

Ronan took a gander at her, his temple badly creased. "I do for sure. It's more grounded here, like the censure is alive."

Selene signaled. "We're close. I can feel it. There's something… keeping it together for us."

They continued calmly, their resources raised as the forest area encompassed them. The trees appeared to endlessly move, their branches associating like skeletal hands. The shadows became hazier, more significant, until it seemed like they were walking around an entry of endless night.

Furthermore, a short time later, they saw it.

A clearing opened up before them, the trees isolating to reveal a colossal stone plan at the center. It was old, campaigned in vegetation and plants, but there was no stirring up its inspiration. This was the center of the castigate — the wellspring of the cloudiness that had tortured their town for a very long time.

The air around the plan popped with energy, dull wizardry spilling from each break and separated. Selene's breath caught in her throat as she made a step closer, her eyes locked on the enormous stone extraordinary raised region at the point of convergence of the clearing.

"This is the long and short of it," Ronan said, his voice low. "The source."

Selene motioned, her heart pulsating. "We annihilate it, and the scold fails horrendously with it."

Regardless, even as she communicated the words, she could feel the resistance in the air, the power of the scold fighting back. This doesn't be sound straightforward, truly. The dimness will not permit them to effortlessly leave.

The Guardian of the Castigate

Before they could push toward the raised region, a figure branched out from the shadows — tall, covered, and wreathed in faint energy. It was the norm, broken down woman they had encountered beforehand, yet by and by, she was remarkable. Her eyes focused with an unnatural light, and the air around her seemed to expand with power.

"I forewarned you," she mumbled, her voice resonating through the clearing. "You can't annihilate the castigate. It is bound to you, to your real spirits. Accepting you strike at its heart, you strike at your own."

Ronan wandered forward, his hand on the hold of his cutting edge. "We're not terrified of you. The censure kicks the can today."

The woman laughed, a chilling sound that creeped Selene out. "You need to defeat me, kid? I'm the administrator of the previous ways. The scold is more settled than you, more settled than your town. It won't pass on no sweat."

Selene could feel the captivated beating from the woman, dull and old-fashioned, like the genuine substance of the criticize itself. However, she wouldn't pull out. "We want to endeavor," she communicated, wandering forward. "We should pick between restricted choices."

The woman's smile obscured, her eyes restricting. "Then, at that point, you will face the results."

With a flick of her hand, the ground under them shivered, and dull curls of energy shot up from the earth, collapsing over Ronan and Selene, pulling them toward the unique ventured region. Selene struggled against the power, yet it was solid areas for as well, murkiness pulling at her, pulling her closer to the center of the criticize.

"You will serve the scold, likewise as," the woman mumbled, her voice stacked up with malignance. "You will give your spirits to the dimness."

Selene's heart beat as the curls fixed around her, the charm immersing her skin, cold and stifling. Nonetheless, she wouldn't give up. With a blast of fortitude, she assembled the charm inside her, facing the criticize's hold.

"Ronan!" she called out, her voice focused. "We really want to fight it!"

Ronan was fighting close by her, his muscles focusing on against the faint energy. "I will not permit it to take us!" he hollered, his eyes lighting truly.

Together, they focused their energy, redirecting every ounce of fortitude they had into breaking freed from the castigate's grip. The dimness wriggled and turned, doing combating against them, yet comfortable, the rings began to cripple.

The older individual's eyes expanded in shock as Selene and Ronan broke free, their bodies shining with a splendid, beating light — their charm, their spirits, fighting back against the censure.

"No!" the woman yelled, her voice stacked up with rage. "You can't defeat the chide! It is immortal!"

Regardless, Selene could feel the power inside her creating, the light pushing back the lack of clarity. She wandered toward the raised region, her eyes locked on the center of the chide. "We can end this," she mumbled, her voice stacked up with conviction. "We will end this."

With one final blast of energy, she lifted her hand, and the light inside her exploded outward, immersing the extraordinary ventured region, the woman, and the chide itself. The ground shook, the air popping with energy as the chide fought back, yet it was no partner for the power of their joined spirits.

The haziness yelled, wriggling hopelessly as it was consumed by the light. What's more, a short time later, with a last, shocking thunder, the chide broke, the lack of clarity dissolving into nothingness.

The clearing fell peaceful, the air still and tranquil as the last extras of the berate vanished. Selene stayed there, her body shiver with exhaustion, yet a weight had lifted. The castigate was gone. Finally, after ages, it was done.

Ronan wandered close by her, his eyes stacked up with assistance. "We did it."

Selene signaled, but a piece of her really felt the opportunity where the castigate had once been. "It's done," she mumbled, more to herself than to him.

However, as they stayed there, enveloped by the remnants of the broke castigate, Selene couldn't shake the tendency that something was meanwhile absent — that there was more happening than they had revealed.