Chapter 36 The Salt-Well

The Grey Barrens were never truly empty. They were a graveyard of energy, a place where the planet's discarded ley lines had frayed and fallen, settling deep into the earth's crystalline layers. For millennia, the salt had acted as an insulator, trapping the "Dead Magic" in a pressurized, silent reservoir.

As the Aethelgard guards tightened their