Dancing on the golden ashes - Chapter 187: The fall of the Empress

... tling activity, now empty, with only a few scattered citizens running in panic. The ground trembled beneath them, and a heavy, oppressive silence hung in the air, broken only by the distant sounds of rumbling thunder. The atmosphere was thick with fear, a fear none had ever felt before, for it wasn’t the usual threat of danger that plagued them. This was something far worse.

Lee Gaon, their empress, their guiding light, was falling from the heavens, her body limp and lifeless. The city w ...