Aetherion Academia #1: Shadows of Rebirth
The beast was a nightmare of hyper-extended muscle and shifting shadows, lunging blindly at anything that breathed.
It took six senior lecturers and a High Master to finally pin the creature to the dirt, weaving a thick web of celestial mana around its thrashing limbs. Krell snapped his jaws, foam dripping from his snout as his growls vibrated like a grinding rockslide.
“Is the pavilion clear?” I shouted, scanning the wreckage of the buffet through the haze of smoke.
At the far end of the hall, beneath a pile of fallen masonry, I spotted a lone student. He was pinned from the waist down under a massive oak beam, his eyes wide with a paralyzed, hyperventilating terror as he watched the thrash