Chapter 11: Blood for the Seed
Caleb pressed the dagger against his palm, slicing it deep.
The blood poured out hot and thick, falling into the center of the sacred circle.
In his grandmother’s journal, a final note — nearly illegible — read:
"To kill the seed, one must plant pain in its heart."
Caleb understood its meaning: the ritual had never been a barrier.
It was a lure.
An opening.
If he could allow the essence of the Glawackus to touch him — to merge with him — and, at the right moment, sacrifice his own soul from within the creature, perhaps he could drag the hunger into the abyss.
It was madness.
It was suicide.
But it was the only chance.
The barrier around him wavered, cracking under the unrelenting strikes of the deformed servants.
The Glawackus, now only a few meters away, tilted its misshapen head, as if it understood — as if it approved the plan.
Caleb raised the blood-soaked dagger.
He shouted the creature’s forbidden name — the name no one dared to speak — torn from the darkest pages of the journal.
The Glawackus shuddered.
The creature stepped back, a fleeting moment of hesitation tearing through its brutal confidence.
This was the moment.
Caleb hurled himself forward, breaking through the barrier with his bleeding body, offering himself as a sacrifice.
At the touch, the creature’s claws pierced his chest.
But Caleb smiled.
He held the dagger.
And the dagger, soaked in the living agony of sacrifice, carried the one weapon hunger could not consume: the human will to resist.
With a scream that made the very station tremble, Caleb drove the blade into his own heart — and into the heart of the beast fused with him.
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