The Alpha King's Shadow
I felt his awakening power pulse outwards, like heat radiating off a blacksmith's forge—unsteady, fierce, barely held in check.
"Spread out," he snapped. Don't let them corner us.
But we were already too late.
The first wave emerged from the Gate's depths.
What made them so awful wasn't their power, but their variety. Each machine was distinct, modified on the fly. One scuttled low to the floor on insect-like legs, its forearms tipped with blades of pure light. Another floated, its midsection split into spinning rings covered in strange symbols, bending the air around it. And a third unfolded like a broken star, sharp angles rearranging as it honed in on Lysera.
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