The Shadow Alpha's army charged.
Reign met them with winter fury. Frost erupted from her hands, freezing the first wave mid-stride. The direwolf tore through Void Guard that tried to flank her. But there were too many.
"Fall back!" she shouted to her wolves on the walls. "I'll hold them here!"
She didn't wait for acknowledgment. Just threw everything at the advancing horde. Ice spears. Frost waves. Blizzards that materialized from clear air.
The shadow weavers pressed forward, phasing through her attacks when they could, taking hits when they couldn't. Three more fell but the rest adapted, learning her patterns.
The Void Guard were worse. They flickered in and out of reality, attacking from angles that shouldn't exist. One materialized behind her, claws aimed at her spine.
The direwo
