The Architecture of Ruin

"You've been leaving me alive on purpose," Sev said. It was not a question.

The Hollow Architect looked up from her calculations. "Yes."

"Why."

And what she said next dismantled three years of certainty in a single breath.

Sev has spent three years hunting the Hollow Architect — the cold, brilliant woman held responsible for unraveling the world's magical infrastructure. She has followed cold trails across flooded archives and collapsed ruins, documented the slow death of a ley-line network tha...