Chapter 191 -  Luca's Ascension

Silence permeated the night, broken only by the far-off howl of wind over the damaged trees. Luca stood alone on a windswept ridge across the ruins of a battle that had raged for what seemed like an eternity in that great, black expanse. Every bruise and scar on his body attested to a war fought deep inside the soul as much as on the physical plane. An ancient power that had been both a curse and a blessing pulled at him through his veins. That power would rise tonight, and with it his destiny would be permanently rewritten.