Erik and Thea waited before Draconia’s wide open gates, as from the distant armies they came. First to arrive, Nerick and Kayle leapt off their pegasus, both almost toppling Thea over as they embraced her. Nerick stepping away then, as sister held sister, tears streaming down their eyes. “You-You’re-alive…” Kayle managed to say through the sniffling and hiccupping, pulling in …

The ground and air quaked, Its very presence making reality shake, Its growl, an explosion of power, as the army was forced to their knees. A pressure filled the grasslands, as if gravity itself had turned against them. Nobody could stand before this monstrosity, nobody but Brazath, and even he struggled to remain straight. Even his expression struggled, twitching in …

The Next Day Noon Grasslands between Keye and Abyele Erik breathed in the cold breeze as it swept past his form, as the blades of grass swung all around him. As the sun shined down from high above, its light lightning up his every direction, even the Dark Citadel as it hovered above. All but himself, as he stood beneath …

Interlude: Believe Beyond Belief Two days after the disappearance of Zrosa’s northern army. Kailu grunted from the cold as his eyes peaked open, a dim flickering light reaching his face, he opened them wide only to jump back. Startled, Kailu reached for his weapon, eyes fully open he stared at the skeleton who sat by his side. “Calm yourself, little …

Jian breathed in deeply, as he stood shoulder to shoulder with his people. Standing at the northern shore to which they had retreated to, they faced the jungle ahead, as monsters clashed above it. A hybrid winged Devil soared through the sky of Zrosian daybreak, wielding two massive fiery halberds, one per hand. Brazath shook the very air around himself …

Jian Dabangui, captain to the 11th infantry company, stepped through the large tent’s curtain. One of the many being haphazardly set up as the jungle around them was slowly and carefully being pushed back by their remaining mages. Jian felt more so than heard, the growl, as he entered. Sending a shiver down his spine as he came face to face …

Interlude: Watchers and Observers The ground quaked as masses of black clashed within the massive hall. “No fool,” Erik’s voice filled the room, as the two twin Black Drakes duelled. “Vary your speed, if you keep moving at the same top you’re capable of then your enemy will get used to it and outmanoeuvre you! And you, you’re too aggressive, you’re …

Makaela took in a deep breath, feeling the connection with each and every summoned blade at her side, she felt them surge alive. “Sshhhh…” As she suddenly shot forwards in response to the ninja’s approach, melding into shadow she clashed with three others, nothing more than wisps of black smoke twisting and turning about one another briefly before they reformed… …

Erik slammed aside another book, grabbing a new one from the surrounding library which filled the large room’s walls. Yet already most of the books were stacked in a mountain where he sat the last read, pacing around it now to move back to the table at the room’s centre, a map of the continent lying before him. Glancing off …

Erik’s clawed finger tapped rhythmically at the table’s surface, as he sat at one end of the long ornate table, the rest of his body lying frozen as he stared. Gazing at the opposite end of the table, where no chair was placed but instead a mass of flesh lay, beating alongside his rhythm. To either side of him sat …