The sky tore wider.
Glass towers groaned as the rift pulsed again, jagged light pouring through like molten veins. The distortion spread across the skyline, bending steel beams and warping shadows. From the tear, something vast began to emerge, its silhouette blotting out the sun.
Hunters froze mid-fight. Screams faltered. Even the crawlers hesitated, skittering sideways, their bodies twitching as if caught between fight and flight.
Lucen tilted his head, smirk tugging at the corner of his mouth. 'Oh. Now that's a boss.'
The creature pulled itself through, slow, deliberate, each limb wider than a city street. Chitin gleamed black and violet, threaded with abyssal fire that pulsed under the plates like veins. Its head was crowned with spines, each tipped in white flame. And when it screamed, windows up and down the district shattered into raining knives.
[Warning: Abyss Entity Detected.]
[Designation: Riftborn Juggernaut.]
[Estimated Threat Rank: Cataclysmic.]
