The Perilous Path of Angelo

Previously

…He looked back at the beast, a silent understanding passing between them. The guardian of the Sunstone had fulfilled its purpose. It had tested him, and he had passed. The chamber, once filled with an aura of peril, now hummed with a gentle, benevolent power. The Sunstone was his, not as a weapon, but as a responsibility, a beacon of hope for his beleaguered homeland. The true journey, he knew, had only just begun.