A roar shook the earth.
An arc of energy shot from the Rift, cleaving the sky in twain.
And as the sun crested the horizon, a dragon emerged from the void.
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR“The dawn of day, it never fails to come.”
~ The Dragon Empress
The dragon burst from the Etherworld, shattering the darkness with his snout as if breaking the surface of the ocean from beneath the waves. Keriya tilted her head back in awe, staring at the behemoth as his neck and wings came forth.
He was larger than Valerion—larger even than Shivnath—and his dark scales burned sapphire in the sun. A royal crest of bone-white spikes ringed his skull. His eyes were also glowing, Keriya noted, but she was no longer concerned about the presence of demons or necromagic. Nothing in the universe could possibly harm the
