"The planet is hatching."
The words hung in the chilling silence of the shattered throne room.
Elara stared at Lucifer, her Twilight wings freezing mid-shift. The Eclipse Valkyrie blinked, her golden eyes completely flat. "I'm sorry. The planet is doing what exactly?"
"You heard me," Lucifer stated smoothly, though the tension in his jaw betrayed the absolute severity of the situation.
"The World-Eater. It wasn't just a myth, and the Heart we blew up in the Umbra was only a fragment. The real body is incubating in the core of the earth.
Solaris Prime and Malphas weren't just fighting over territory. Their opposing dimensional pressures were acting as a cosmic vice, keeping the egg sealed."
Lyra leaned heavily against her silver broadsword, her face pale. "And we just killed them both."
"We removed the wardens," Lucifer confirmed. His void-swirling eyes flicked back to the broken marble where the God of Light had died. "And now the prisoner is waking up."
