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Chapter 715 - Dance of Thunder and Ash

Lightning prowled beneath Sylvanna's skin, restless and hot, like a storm-born adder denied a strike. From the narrow spur of root she'd climbed, the chamber sprawled beneath her in broken geometry—shattered pylons jutting at drunken angles, vines hanging like ruptured veins, pools of oozing sap reflecting the chaos in slick amber mirrors. But one thorn remained untouched: the final pylon, half hidden behind a knot of writhing timber. It must have once been a proud heart-root, carved from living oak; now it was a cancerous spike, its bark split and weeping thick resin that pulsed to some dark rhythm. Each throb sent liquid fire into the guardian below, igniting its veins with molten fury.

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