The cracked earth of the Ashen Expanse quaked under nine separate battles, each one a miniature apocalypse.
Heat rippled, shadow bent, and corrupted mana screamed through the air as Raven's squad met the charging part-dragons head-on.
Raven, on the other hand, merely observed them, just as the colossal beast on the other side did.
Both of them wanted to see how the fight went before they began. After all, once they start, they wouldn't be able to focus on others.
The first one Raven looked at was Selena.
A shadowy surge erupted behind her, blotting out the dim light.
Her devourer beasts slithered up from her own shadow like liquid nightmares—six-eyed creatures with serrated jaws and bodies stitched together by pure void.
Skeletons of long-dead monsters clawed out of the black haze and locked themselves to the devourers, forming a titanic, armor-plated silhouette around her.
A skeletal titan—her personal Susano-no-Mikoto of death—rose with a roar that wasn't human.
