Chapter 201: Dark Tidings, Part 1

Note: Edited 05/10/23: CHANGED THE LAST HALF of the chapter. From the moment 'Granny' appears. Highly recommend you reread it if you've read it before 02/10/23. Thanks. 

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VOLUME III: THE SPEAR OF RUNES AND DESTINY BEGINS HERE!

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I was running again. Running for my life because, well, what else was new? 

Behind me followed a howl so menacing that just hearing it made my legs feel like they were made of jelly. 

"You think you can escape me—"

I felt a blow to my back—a blade of air cutting across flesh and digging into muscle and sinew. 

"Argh!" I screamed. 

In the same breath, I heard the beast call my name, "Will Wisdom!" 

I stumbled forward as blood trickled down my back, soaking my blue aviator jacket in dark red stains. 

"There is no escaping me!" 

Desperate to flee, I stumbled forward, my feet sliding across blackened sand. 

"I have marked you now—"