Chapter 49 The Final Reckoning

The air was heavy, filled with a thick tension that swirled around in the acrid scent of the burning earth and the taste of cold metallic doom. Side by side stood Alex and Mara, their eyes fixed on the towering figure that now emerged from the swirling shadows before them. It was unlike anything they had faced before. Dark, malevolent, and impossibly vast, the creature's form seemed to stretch beyond the limits of the realm they stood in, casting an oppressive aura that suffocated the very air.