Chapter 171 - The Warlock Pact

The merger of flame and abyss had created ripples through the fabric of reality that extended far beyond the immediate battlefield where Selena's transformation accelerated through her apparent resistance to the Riftborn King's cosmic void. The synthesis of organized consciousness and primordial hunger was generating energies that operated according to principles too paradoxical for normal administrative categories, creating disturbances in cosmic bureaucracy that attracted attention from entities that existed in the spaces between official recognition and systematic oversight.