Chapter 69 — Convergence
The sky tore open on the seventh day after Nyxara's infiltration.
It began with silence — an unnatural, oppressive stillness that settled over the volcanic lands like a shroud. Then the largest rift exploded outward in a cataclysm of violet-black energy. From its depths came not just riftspawn, but a true manifestation of Korthrax the Devourer — a colossal avatar that dwarfed anything they had faced before. Hundreds of tentacles thicker than siege towers lashed across the ash plains, each tipped with blinking eyes and screaming mouths that spoke with the voices of the devoured.
