The outskirts of the city trembled.
From the fog-covered plains, an ocean of snarling beasts surged forward—claws scraping the dirt, eyes glowing with primal hatred. Dire wolves, flame-skinned apes, scaled reptilian horrors, and winged aberrations thundered toward the walls. Their sheer numbers drowned out the sky, a flood of monstrous wrath birthed by corruption and bloodlust.
Within the fortified heart of the city, the rich and strong lounged in safety—glass towers and reinforced bunkers protecting them like a shell. Meanwhile, in the outer districts, the weak and poor screamed. Families clung to one another, barricading their shacks with furniture, praying the walls would hold.
They wouldn't.
The corrupt enforcers sneered from atop their barricades, barking orders but making no move to help. To them, the outer district was bait—meat to distract the monsters, a buffer zone for the elites. They watched through scopes, fingers near triggers, eyes glazed with cruelty and fear.
Then, silence fell.
The earth cracked.
A single figure stepped beyond the protective line.
Kael.
Cloaked in blood-stained garments from his last purge, his eyes burned cold blue under the setting sun. Beside him stood his mimic—not a summoned beast, but a reflection of borrowed wrath. Today, Kael invoked "The Roar of the Berserker"—an echo of an ancient warlord's relentless fury. His movements would be untiring. His strikes would be merciless. For one day, he would not break.
The enforcers shouted behind him, "Are you mad!? You'll die out there!"
Kael didn't answer.
A beast the size of a carriage lunged forward, its maw splitting into three tongues lined with teeth. Kael moved like lightning—his foot cracked the dirt, his body vanished in a blur, and a second later, the beast's head spiraled into the air.
Blood sprayed the ground.
The horde hesitated for a split second.
Then Kael moved.
What followed was not a battle.
It was a massacre.
Kael's mimic moved beside him like a ghost—copying his stance, twisting in perfect sync, mimicking his divine speed and force. Together, they carved through the frontlines. Heads flew. Claws were severed mid-strike. Bodies fell in halves. The ground turned red.
Every movement Kael made was precise, guided not just by power but divine instinct. When a winged raptor dove from above, Kael spun and kicked off its skull mid-air, launching into another beast with his blade slicing its neck in a clean arc. A massive tusked rhino charged. Kael ducked under its swing, plunged both arms into its chest, and ripped out its heart with his bare hands.
The poor watched from behind crumbling shelters in awe and disbelief.
The rich watched from their glass towers in growing horror.
Inside a surveillance bunker, corrupt commanders screamed at their screens. "That... that man is insane! He's one man! ONE!"
"No—" another whispered, fear blooming in his eyes. "That's not a man. That's a weapon."
No. He wasn't.
He was God's wrath made flesh.
The monsters panicked, their charge faltering. But Kael didn't stop. He moved like a storm given shape—slicing, smashing, decimating. His mimic let out a silent roar, matching his master step for step, leaving glowing trails of divine energy in their wake.
At one point, Kael took a slash to the side from a scythe-limbed beast. Flesh tore. Blood spilled.
But he didn't fall.
He tore the beast's head in two and kept walking.
When a group of children screamed from under a collapsed shack, Kael jumped over them and bisected three monsters mid-air before they could touch the rubble. One little girl looked up at him, crying. Kael didn't say anything, but his eyes softened for the briefest moment.
Then he turned back to war.
Above, storm clouds gathered. Thunder cracked.
The city's protectors, those who called themselves powerful, had done nothing.
But one man—just one—was protecting thousands.
And he was not done.
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