"The heavens have found us, Chen," Yueling cried, her voice trembling, her shared senses confirming the dire truth. "They're coming for us!"
Li Chen pulled her behind him, his body a tense shield. He looked up, through the gnarled canopy of the Forbidden Forest, past the lingering mists, to the sky above. It was no longer merely a swirling vortex of deep, violent purple. The very air had turned crimson, as if the cosmos itself bled with fury. The crackle of destabilized energy intensified, becoming a deafening roar. And from the heart of that celestial maelstrom, lines of brilliant, terrifying purple lightning began to descend.
They were not gentle rain. They were spears of pure, annihilating energy, thick as ancient trees, striking the distant, shattered peaks of what was once the Spiri
