With every strike, the "Glory" faded. The illusions of grandeur shattered. The white stone turned back into common granite, and the stolen children awoke from their trance.
The interior was not stone, but light. Gravity felt thin, like a half-remembered dream. As Kaelen climbed the winding, floating staircases, the Spire tested him. It didn’t use monsters; it used . Spire of Glory
The sky over the Kingdom of Oryn was no longer blue; it was a bruised purple, choked by the shadow of the . With every strike, the "Glory" faded