His frown cut sharper than any blade.
The battlefield trembled.
The lava beneath their feet bubbled and cracked.
And for a single heartbeat… the world seemed to pause, watching two forces of primordial power about to collide.
The ground trembled violently.
The primordial beings shook in their chains, struggling even as one of the deities had tried to reinforce the seal to keep them contained.
The air quaked. Lava hissed. Smoke curled upward.
Then, slowly, a figure emerged.
A female primordial being, her presence radiating a corrupted majesty, rose from the scattered remnants of energy around her.
She hadn't fully regained her power, but even weakened, she radiated dominance.
Her eyes swept over the nearest heavenly beast.
"How dare you," she hissed, voice like grinding steel, "a lowly form like you… look me in the eye? Die!"
Her hand rose.
A green gas formed, swirling with the air, moving deliberately toward the beast.
