Chapter 78 - THE SHUDDERING LINE.

The Hollow Pass was a wound carved into the bones of the earth, and now it trembled beneath the echoes of battle. The death of the Wraith-knight had not brought the silence of resolution—it had torn open a void of fear. His corpse, massive and half-buried in shattered stone, lay sprawled like some mythic titan defeated, the black armor fractured, his cursed blade still humming faintly with residual venomous power. Smoke and dust mingled in the air, the acrid tang of blood clinging to every breath.