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◆ Scene 1 – In the Ashes of Victory
The battle was over.
The southern wall of Dilonia was gone, replaced by a gaping scar in the earth. Smoke still rose from the impact zone where Daevor had fallen, his flame reduced to sputtering embers.
Ares stood alone, bloodied and quiet.
Not a cheer. Not a voice.
Only wind.
His eyes—still glowing with residual traces of darkness and lightning—flicked upward. Something in the sky had shifted. Something… old. Watching.
“I know you’re there,” he muttered.
But no one answered.
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◆ Scene 2 – Underground Emergency Chambers
Commander Nir Valkx slammed his fist onto the granite console. The stone cracked.
“Why did you stream the entire battle?!”
General Serah—half her armor melted—snapped back, “We didn’t! The Neva interference auto-broadcaste
