Deepwoken Earth Piercer 〈Authentic〉
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But Harran saw the truth. The Church didn’t want the breach sealed. They wanted it directed —aimed like a cannon at the city of Celtor, to wipe out a political rival. deepwoken earth piercer
The stone slab at his feet had changed. Where once the carving was inert, now it glowed a faint, deep amber. And beneath Kaelen’s own feet, he felt it—a distant, resonant thrum . The Earth Piercer’s final fragment wasn’t a weapon. It was a key. And somewhere beneath the rotting floorboards of the docks, in a submerged vault the Church thought lost, Harran’s true legacy waited: not destruction, but the location of every hidden deal, every false idol, every lie the great powers of the Luminant had buried. From weight
And somewhere, deep beneath the world, the last fragment of Harran the Sunderer began to sing. They wanted it directed —aimed like a cannon
The ground didn’t shake. It focused . A single spike of obsidian and compacted time erupted from the fault line, clean as a spear, and traveled seven miles underground. It emerged directly beneath the Church’s hidden basilica. Not a soul died. But the basilica—every vault, every relic, every contract written in sinner’s ink—sank into the crust, folded like paper, and was never found again.
Kaelen, a fresh-faced Deepwoken who had only survived three dives into the Depths, stared at it. He’d heard the legends. Every diver had. The Earth Piercer wasn’t just a weapon or a mantra. It was a judgment .
“Don’t touch it,” grunted an old Diver named Soryn, her left arm replaced by a shifting mass of crystallized pyre keeper shards. “That thing’s older than the Lighthouses. It fell from the sky during the Second Tide, when the Drowned God turned over in his sleep. They say it was driven into the world’s collarbone.”