"Come."
The moment the word echoed, a massive aura gripped Malakai like a vice, and he felt a pull the likes of which he'd never felt before.
'It's after the life essence.' Like all darkness creatures, the moment Malakai used the life essence, they seemed to be inexplicably drawn to him. He became all they saw, all they wanted.
However, this… being, Malakai knew, was of a scale that dwarfed anything he had ever encountered.
He could feel the same desire from it, but at a scale that couldn't be compared to the darkness creatures he'd met so far.
He could feel the wrongness surge through him. He could feel the rage, the hatred from the life essence.
It was the first time the life essence would ever show any emotion, but it became all he could feel. The hatred for the being above, one that seemed to stretch for millennia.
In response to its call, Malakai did the one thing that came to his mind.
He roared.