The giant Night Beast stepped fully into the ruined village.
The ground groaned beneath its weight.
It was massive easily three times the size of the others. Its body was twisted muscle and blackened bone, its skin moving like something alive beneath the surface.
But the worst part…
Its eyes.
Empty white.
Locked directly on Ivy.
More specifically
Her stomach.
The smaller Night Beasts immediately backed away, forming a circle around the battlefield like obedient predators waiting for their master to feed.
Rowan slowly raised his sword.
“Big one’s mine,” he muttered.
The creature’s head tilted unnaturally.
Then it spoke again.
“The Devourer… hungers.”
Its voice scraped through the air like broken glass.
“For the child… of Primordial blood.”
Ivy felt something pulse inside he
