CHAPTER 186 — ECLIPSE WAR (PART I)
The sky cracked.
Not metaphorically.
Audibly.
A fracture of light rippled across the golden lattice as Zehell's aura expanded without restraint.
The twin planetary rings no longer hovered in quiet authority. They trembled, their descent uneven, pulled between containment and collision.
Below them—
The terrace of Azure Dragon Academy shattered.
Stone disintegrated into dust mid-air. The academy barrier formations failed in cascading bursts of light.
Long Hao hovered above the ruins, the fracture across his chest fully open—an eclipse iris rotating steadily beneath exposed skin.
Black light poured from him—not chaotic.
Controlled.
Measured.
Zehell rose opposite him.
Her silhouette stretched skyward, eclipse radiance expanding behind her like a second horizon. Gold spirals wove through black currents, forming a massive circular sigil beneath her feet.
Her eyes were no longer layered.
They were unified.
Black at the center.
