Chapter 200 – He Kept Walking
The colossal fire-and-blood snake hissed and swallowed Emrys Stormblessed's attacks within its depthless maw.
The Chosen One watched the scene with dismay flooding his eyes. He staggered, his sight blurry with fatigue, feeling a deep kind of exhaustion that seemed to come from the soul itself.
He cursed under his breath, realising he was still far too weak to use a Manifestation, and his soul was growing weary under the overwhelming strain.
However, Emrys Stormblessed could not afford to give up.
Cassius was not the only one who wanted to win no matter what. He was not the only one with responsibility, with people who believed in him, with a goal to achieve.
Emrys had his own family to make proud, to show them that all the resources they had spent on him, and all the time spent training him, were not for nothing.
He wanted — oh, only the gods knew how desperately he wanted — to prove to his mother that he was not the monster she claimed he was.
