Chapters 19-

Everything is Grey now and all hope has faded, like a ghost in the fog. Weighing me down is all that I have learned on my journey. I have survived all the horrors of my changed world, and my rewards are hopelessness and despair. The Crysin are real and have weaponized the mechanical Aboninations from the past.

Walking up the long claustrophobic staircase leading me to the Oracle. Every step up makes the world's weight feel heavier and more real on my shoulders. Like a dam breaking in my mind, I can no longer ignore and repress the realization that the unspoken balance of the world hangs on me. like a hangman's noose waiting for me to fail so I can drop. lam the Alchemist, and this is who I have become. The next chapter will be out soon