Chapter 48

Lifeless Shell

Adolfa's POV

It was too cold. Too quiet. The air around me was no longer air—it was poison. Charon’s venom crawled through my veins like ice wrapped in thorns. I couldn’t move. Not even an inch. Not a breath. Not a whisper. My body betrayed me.

Is this it?

Is this how I die?

After everything I’ve endured… everything I reclaimed… all the battles I survived, is this where it ends?

Will I perish here, at the gate of hell?

Will I die before defeating ...