CROWNED BY BLOOD
it intoned, the words rippling through dimensions like cosmic thunder.
"We carry hope," I replied, my voice steady despite the magnitude of what we faced. "We carry love that transcends death, dreams that refuse to die, and the promise that tomorrow can be better than today."
The battle ignited anew with intensity that dwarfed everything that had come before. But this time, we were more than soldiers or even heroes. We were a force of nature, a principle of existence made manifest in flesh and spirit and will. Void Hunters disintegrated when they drew too close, their entropy unable to maintain coherence near such concentrated lives.