Chapter 20: Darkness + Light = ?

I'm going to die…

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But then, something else stirred. Something deep, ancient, stirred beneath the sands. The clear ground began to darken, shadows creeping up from the depths like tendrils of the abyss, swallowing the light.

The sands beneath them shifted, darkening, and a low rumble echoed across the mindscape. The Titan of Light froze, its expression shifting from anger to... fear?

Out of the corner of Arthur's eye, something moved—an eye, massive and slitted, opening within the void of the darkened sands. A low, primal rumble echoed across the mindscape, a sound so deep it seemed to resonate with the very core of his being. The light around them flickered, dimming as the presence of something far more ancient, far more powerful than the Titan of Light, began to rise.