The forest behind them lay silent, deceptively calm, but the world beyond the treeline was anything but peaceful. Daniel, still glowing faintly from the previous battle, crouched by the cabin window, eyes scanning the horizon.
“Something’s wrong,” he muttered, a chill running down his spine. The residual energy from the fragments pulsing faintly in the air seemed to converge toward a single point far in the distance.
Adrian frowned, kneeling beside him. “What do you mean?”
Daniel’s aura flickered. “It’s not the fragments… it’s larger now. Genesis is regrouping somewhere near the city… and they’re attacking.”
Natalie’s heart clenched. “The civilians… we have to stop them.”
Adrian shook his head grimly. “We don’t know the scale yet. Could be hundreds, maybe thousands. Daniel, this is go
