A sonic boom tore across the heavens. The clouds split open like a curtain being ripped apart. Along with it came a brewing storm, with lightning flashing in the distance.
Instinctively, all the leaders looked up at the sky. There, they could see the shadow of something enormous flying overhead.
At first, the leaders looked absent-minded. But when they felt the power envelop the area even from such a distance, their faces lit up with relief and joy.
"Finally here, huh?" Thane spoke, a smile creeping onto his bearded face.
"My apologies. I got held up by something on the way. Hence the delay."
RUMBLE…
Lightning exploded, and the storm that had been brewing in the distant sky was now already overhead. Then, from within the storm, appeared the figure of something enormous.
The being had vast wings that covered almost one-third of the battlefield in shadow. Its body gleamed with impenetrable polished stormsteel, deep silver streaked with veins of crackling lightning.
