Author's Note: Do Not Unlock Yet. The Chapter Is Still Under Construction.
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Each creature was no larger than a human head, their bodies insectoid and malformed, with jagged limbs and glowing red pinprick eyes.
They flew.
Crawled.
Skittered across the air itself as though gravity meant nothing.
Eirene's expression hardened.
"…So many."
She shifted Victor's body securely to one arm and raised the other.
Darkness exploded outward.
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Falling and Fighting
A wave of black energy tore through the swarm, erasing hundreds instantly—bodies collapsing into ash mid-air.
But the swarm didn't slow.
They replaced the dead without pause, numbers so vast they seemed endless.
Eirene lashed out again and again.
Dark lances.
Shadow blades.
Compressed void spheres.
Each attack annihilated dozens, sometimes hundreds.
Still, they came.
