Chapter 11: Celestial Reckoning

The darkness that had consumed the battlefield hung heavy in the air, its weight pressing down on Echo's chest as the world around him seemed to distort and fold upon itself. His mind raced, the sudden and unexpected appearance of the mysterious woman still fresh in his thoughts. The shimmering light from her outstretched hand had illuminated the void of chaos for just a fraction of a second, but that brief moment felt like an eternity.

The ground beneath him had cracked open, and the sky above had shattered into a thousand pieces, leaving nothing but the void and the swirling storm of energy that seemed to engulf everything. Echo's breath came in shallow gasps, his body still reeling from the intensity of the attack he had unleashed—an energy so powerful that it had almost drained him entirely. His mind, too, was on the verge of collapse, but there was something else. Something new.

The system had been silent for too long.