Chapter 161: Prelude to Catastrophe: The Doomsday Assembly

The return was a violent, wrenching schism of the soul. One moment, Jason Yare was standing on the precipice of a shattered world, the dust of ten thousand years of conflict settling upon his spectral form. He was King Balam, the Walker, the last bastion against an all-consuming darkness. The scent of ozone, blood, and cosmic despair filled his senses. The next, he was back in the sterile silence of his clinic room in downtown Crestwood. The transition was not gentle. It was like being hurled...