The ground trembled violently, as if the battlefield itself was groaning under the weight of the battle. The air reverberated with the cacophony of war, the stench of blood and smoke hanging heavy over the battlefield. And then, a deafening crack splintered the fabric of reality, its sonic boom echoing through the chaos like a thunderclap. All eyes from the endless carnage, jerked toward the mountain ridges overlooking the war-torn battlefield, as if drawn by an otherworldly magnet. The rocky outcroppings seemed to shudder, their stones trembling with a foreboding that seemed to herald the arrival of something momentous, something that would forever alter the course of the battle... and the fate of the world.