The wind howled across the frostbitten peaks as Emery followed Commander Jhett and the others to the summit platform of Northstar Stronghold. The elevated vantage point revealed the full horror of the battlefield. Below, a sea of chaos writhed—more than sixty enemy cosmic experts spread like a storm across the skies, hovering menacingly over the barbarian horde. Tens of thousands surged across the icy valley floor, pressing against the stronghold's battered walls like a living tide.
The western flank was the most concentrated. There, Emery's eyes fixed on five newly arrived cosmic experts, their auras fierce and unstable. Accompanying them were three godly beasts, their immense forms looming like death incarnate.
Among them, astride a grotesque, winged monstrosity that resembled a bloated mosquito, rode a female warrior. Her aura struck a familiar chord—unmistakably, it was the barbarian beastmaster Emery had faced before within a new body.
