The battlefield was silent in a way that made Seraphine’s chest ache. The war, the Ancients, the Celestial Executor all of it had vanished, leaving only smoldering ruins and the faint hum of lingering guardian energy.The moon above was whole again. Its silver surface gleamed, smooth and unbroken. The fractures that had threatened to tear the world apart were gone, healed by the ritual. Its soft light bathed the valley in serenity, a stark contrast to the chaos that had just consumed everything.But something was missing.Her gaze snapped to the central node where he had stood.And he wasn’t there.Her heart dropped.“Impossible,” she whispered, her voice trembling. “He can’t be”A faint ripple of white-hot energy hovered in the air, residual from the ritual. It flickered, unstable, and then collapsed into nothing.Seraphine’s hands shook violently as she scanned the valley. The Ancients were gone. The Celestial Executor had been destroyed or banished. The battlefield was eerily still
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