"Nyx."
Space rippled beside Noah, reality tearing open like fabric being sliced by invisible claws. Purple void energy crackled around the edges of the portal, expanding until it was large enough to swallow a building.
"Ascend."
What emerged wasn't just a dragon, it was the incarnation of death in blazing red.
Nyx stepped through the portal with deliberate, earth-shaking steps. Each footfall cracked the ground beneath him, his massive weight leaving impressions in stone that had survived Darius's rampage. He was enormous, easily dwarfing military transport vehicles, his dark red scales gleaming like polished rubies in the storm light.
Then he roared.
RAAARRRGGHHHHHH!!!
