Healing the Veil had changed the fate of Earth.
But it had not magically erased twenty years of devastation.
No more monsters entered the planet now. The sky no longer cracked open with dimensional ruptures, and humanity no longer lived in fear of waking up to another catastrophic breach appearing above a city overnight. For the first time in decades, the world had stability.
Yet stability did not mean peace.
The monsters already on Earth remained, and there were hundreds of millions of them.
Monster beasts ruled entire forests, oceans, and mountain ranges that humanity had long abandoned. Shadow beasts nested inside dead cities wrapped in eternal darkness and corrupted environment. And the infected - those twisted remnants of humanity - still wandered the world in horrifying numbers.
Twenty years.
That was how long humanity had been fighting the apocalypse.
