(Solomon's POV)
Some monsters want to destroy the world.
Others simply consume it.
The Devourer wanted something worse.
It wanted to become it.
The Battle Beyond Reality
The sky had ceased to exist.
The mountain had ceased to exist.
Even the cavern was gone.
Reality itself had become unstable beneath the pressure of two impossible beings colliding.
Mirabel floated above us.
A constellation wearing human skin.
The Devourer rose from the abyss below.
An ocean of darkness given form.
Their first true clash shattered distance.
Light met darkness.
Creation met hunger.
And existence screamed.
I watched entire landscapes appear and vanish around them.
Forests.
Cities.
Oceans.
Worlds.
Fragments of memories ripped from the million souls within Mirabel.
Each collision unleash
