Chapter 56: Price of Power
The world was quiet. Too quiet.
I could feel the spell still humming through my veins, a deep and ancient thrum that did not belong to me, yet somehow was me. Chronus Revertum — the words echoed in the hollow of my chest like a prayer and a warning. The battlefield that had moments ago been drenched in blood and ruin now stood eerily whole. Crumbled walls rose anew, their cracks mended by threads of reversed time. Charred banners unfurled with their original colors. The scorched earth was once again green and alive.
And the people… oh, the people.
Where moments ago there were screams, there were now gasps. Wounds sealed with soft pulses of light. Warriors who had fallen clutched their chests, eyes widening as breath returned to their lungs. Even the twisted f
