The Ashen Expanse howled beneath a sky split in half.
Black voidfire and molten dragon breath crashed against each other, birthing a cyclone of screaming light that chewed through mountains and sky alike.
Each second stretched until it cracked. Each heartbeat felt like a war.
Raven's boots scraped forward through the heat, his crimson eyes unreadable.
The black-boned colossus leered back, molten grin wide, convinced the human's silence meant fear.
Even if Graye had defeated one of them, that didn't mean victory, as the colossus was sure that Graye was gravely injured herself.
As such, it didn't even consider her joining this fight.
Then, at last, a voice slithered through the mana storm—
—but it wasn't the beast's.
It was Raven's.
His words pressed directly into the colossus's skull, cold and sharp as a blade of frozen flame.
"Do you know why I stayed quiet this whole time?"
The voidfire flared, crimson streaks whipping like living serpents.
