The Vales faded behind them like a dream forgotten at dawn.Their feet touched solid earth again—but it didn't feel like earth.
The path shimmered beneath them, not stone, but light woven into form.
Ahead, suspended between the clouds, stood a colossal structure—so grand, so radiant, the world seemed to bow around it.
The Celestial Gate.
🚪 What Is the Celestial Gate?
It is not merely an entrance—it is a judgment, a living threshold between the mortal realm and Elyndor.
Forged by Elarion himself in the earliest age, the Gate was said to listen to the soul, not the tongue.
Only those who walk in love, truth, and divine courage may pass through it unharmed.
It has never opened for mortals……until now.
🕊️ The Final Guardian
As the Flamebearers approached, the wind stopped.The sky held its breath.
From the Gate's radiant arch stepped a being wreathed in soft flame and starlight—not Aurelith.
This was The Last Sentinel, a being of pure spirit and ancient light, forged to guard the Gate until the destined ones arrived.
It spoke not in words, but in resonance.
"You have burned and not been consumed.You have walked through sorrow and not turned back.You have become the path you walked."
Then it looked at each of them…
Seren, steady with tears still wet.
Kael, quiet and glowing from within.
Vaelrix, silent… his wings flickering under his cloak.
"Enter—not as mortals…But as the first to rise."
✨ The Gate Opens
Light spirals.Time bends.The Gate opens not like a door—but like the sky remembering its purpose.
And the Flamebearers step through…
…into Elyndor.