Chapter 194
[MISSION COMPLETE. WORLD STABILIZATION: 87%]
[FINAL HOST TERMINATION: CONFIRMED.]
[INITIATING SOUL RETRIEVAL PROTOCOL.]
A faint hum.
A shimmering portal bloomed — invisible to the human eyes below.
Below it: a burning ruin. What had once been a home, now nothing more than blackened beams and shattered stone, flames licking hungrily at the night sky. Fire crews swarmed around the inferno, unaware that the true heart of the place — the lives that had dwelled within — were already gone.
And from the heart of that fire, a wisp rose.
Unlike before the wisp, was not so transparent and weak, it was much more solid now.
Daphne Han.
Her soul rose from the wreckage — trailing smoke and embers — drifting upward into the waiting portal.
And behind her, as it had before… another.
A smaller wisp. Fainter than ever, but this time—
Closer.
