The sky didn’t just crack.It tore open.One rip became ten.Ten became hundreds.Thin fractures spread across the heavens like a shattered mirror and from each one, darkness began to spill.Not one Devourer.Not two.A swarm.The DescentThey didn’t fall.They poured.Liquid shadows slipping through reality, reforming mid-air into shifting, unstable forms that pulsed with the same insatiable hunger.The ground trembled as they landed beyond the forest line.Dozens.Then hundreds.Each one twitching… searching.Hungry.Theodore stepped forward slowly, golden aura blazing.“Okay,” he muttered.“Now it’s war.”Aurelion’s FearBeside me, Aurelion’s light flickered.Not weak.But shaken.“They’re connected,” he said.“How?” I asked.“They feel what the first one felt…”His eyes widened slightly.“They know what I am.”The new being the one born from the Devourer stepped closer to us.Its glow was unstable, but growing.“They know… what I could become too…”That was worse.Much worse.The
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