***WARNING!! THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS SOME CRUEL VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL CONTENT ,THAT MAY OTHERS FIND DISTURBING! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!***
The other side of the desert was nothing but rot and ruin. The air stank of blood and sulfur, thick with corrupted mana that turned the sky a poisonous shade of red. The dunes themselves seemed alive, writhing faintly as if the earth rejected what stood upon it.
At the center of it all, five figures loomed. They were not just commanders—they were calamities wrapped in flesh. Around them, five thousand cultists stretched in every direction, their twisted chants rising like a choir of the damned.
One cultist staggered forward, bowing so low his forehead scraped the blackened sand. His voice trembled with manic glee.
