The sky still burned with the remnants of battle. Kai Solis' silhouette stood imposing, shrouded in a golden and blue glow. Around him, the Emperor's ashes floated like fragments of an extinct era. But deep within him, an unfamiliar feeling clung to his instinct, a silent warning.

  Something was wrong.

  The air vibrated with a different energy, as if the very balance of the world had been disturbed. In the distance, the darkened skies flickered with flashes of crimson glow. A cracking sound reverberated through the earth, a primal echo that did not belong to this time or this world.

  Kai narrowed his eyes. His senses, sharpened as never before, picked up a distortion in space. It was subtle, but present. Something was breaking free.

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  From the top of a ruined tower, his gaze turned to the horizon. Clouds formed abnormal spirals, swirling around an invisible point. Ancient whispers echoed on the wind, voices without an owner speaking in a forgotten language. There was no doubt.

  A seal was giving way.

  Kai clenched his fist. He was not afraid, but a sense of anticipation coursed through him. He had defeated the Emperor, but something greater lay dormant in the depths of the world. And now, awakening was imminent.

  The ground shook beneath his feet. It was no simple earthquake. It was the roar of something colossal, something that should never have been disturbed. From the ends of the earth, in regions where humanity dared not tread, enormous shadows rose against the moon.

  Ancient beasts.

  Creatures whose size exceeded imagining, whose bodies were like living mountains, with eyes that burned like extinguished suns. Their presences were so vast that reality itself seemed to bend around them.

  Kai watched in silence. His war was not yet over.

  It was just beginning.