Chapter 92 - Fractured Foundations

A month had slipped by since Ryan and his small group had clashed with the Frost Walker in that frozen arena, a battle that felt both like yesterday and a lifetime ago for them. Thirty days of simmering tensions, unspoken regrets, and the relentless grind of survival in a world that refused to let them forget its cruelties. The victory they had claimed that day—the blue stone now humming with alien energy in the Alien Device next to the Red Stone from the Fire Spitter—had come at a cost that echoed through every corner of their lives, reshaping relationships like seismic aftershocks.