Chapter 160: Curse Lifted

Adolph stood aside as Eden walked to the center of the room. A stone platform lifted him into the air. The air stirred as Adolph watched the thick, black pool ripple and flow through the cracks in the stone platform.

“What is he doing?”

“It’s a blood cleansing ritual,” Caedan said mistily. “It will release every spirit trapped in the pools and cleanse the reservoirs.”

Adolph looked at the man, “Including you?”

He smiled and nodded, “Including me.”

His voice turned to a whisper and his form vanished into a swirl of light that broke against the dark stone, clearing the darkness. More streaks of light jumped from the flowing liquid, blasting the darkness out of the stone until it turned a glowing silver like moonlight.

Adolph watched stone turn silver beneath his feet. The door gleamed behind him and opened. He followed the rushing light and silver back up the stairs until he reached a window and saw that dawn was breaking over the citadel. Had they been down there that long? It hadn’t