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Some journeys never end — even beyond time itself.
When Gabriel and his friends return from the depths of Horian’s caves, they find a world changed beyond recognition. Time has betrayed them, the city has fallen, and the line between the living and the dead grows thin. As alliances shift and fate demands a price, Gabriel faces the truth no mortal heart can bear — that every ending hides another beginning.

When Gabriel, Casper, Maya, Sarah, and Lea returned from Horian’s caves to the Celestial Plains, bringing the frail Robert with them, they were met by a blinding cold and deep snow.
Seeking shelter, they made their way towards the enchanted city — only to find it reduced to ruins. The sole building left standing was a prison, and there, in its abandoned dining hall, they lit a fire and survived for several days.

An old man named Scott appeared and joined their company, guiding them across the desert toward Casper’s fortress. Yet as soon as they crossed the boundary of the Celestial Plains, the curse returned — Casper began to age once more, and before they reached the city walls, he died. From Aura they learned that thirty years had passed since their last departure.

After Casper’s burial, Gabriel and his companions continued their journey with Scott, determined to find what they had been sent to this age to discover. When Scott helped them gain entry into the invisible city of the Elitans, he vanished, leaving them to face their fate alone.

The weakened Robert could not endure the perilous path ahead and fell into the abyss below. Maya, Sarah, and Lea — now aged and weary — also disappeared, until Gabriel found himself utterly alone. Captured and imprisoned, he was certain all hope was lost — until, to his astonishment, he discovered every one of his friends alive within the same prison, newly arrived from the Middle Ages.