The sky shattered.
Not metaphorically.
Actually.
Cracks tore across the rift above the battlefield as Kael’s power slammed into the barrier separating realms. The wound in the heavens trembled violently, lines of white light splintering outward like broken glass.
Inside the celestial prison, alarms of divine energy flared across the chamber.
The pillars around Seraphine blazed brighter.
One of the Ancients stepped forward.
“He is destabilizing the gateway.”
Another replied sharply.
“Deploy the sentinels.”
Seraphine’s stomach twisted.
“Sentinels?”
The chamber above her head shifted.
A massive section of the glowing ceiling opened.
Through it, Seraphine saw shapes moving within the rift.
Hundreds of them.
Warriors forged from divine metal and living light.
Their bodies were
