Kael’s Final Transformation

The Silence Before the Storm

Ethan and Mia stood at the edge of the battlefield, the wind howling through the skeletal remains of what had once been Solmara's grand palace. The ruins smoldered in the distance, tendrils of smoke curling upward into a sky that no longer obeyed nature's laws. Black and violet swirled in chaotic patterns overhead, the Rift's influence bleeding into reality like ink spilled across parchment. The air itself pressed down on them, thick and suffocating, as though the world held its breath, waiting for an inevitable rupture.

And there, at the heart of the desolation, stood Kael.