Chrysalis

Granin stirred as the wave washed over him.

"W-was that?" Corun asked breathlessly.

"It was," the triad leader stated.

Torrina sucked in a breath, letting the shock register on her face instead of her usual stoic expression.

"This is a lot sooner than we expected," she said after calming herself. "Are you sure?"

Her teacher shot her a slightly annoyed look and she looked down. Granin snorted.

"You're too smart to ask a question like that," he scolded her, "we just got punched in the face by a wall of mana. Of course I'm sure."

"I know. I suppose I just didn't want it to happen now. I don't think I'm ready."

"Nobody is ready for what's coming. They might have spent three thousand years preparing themselves, but they still aren't ready."

At least we won't be the ones to pit ourselves against the overwhelming strength of the Ancients. I'm happy to leave that to those with far more hubris than I.

Corun warred with the sense of excitement and trepidation. World shaking events would take place, and soon. A wave the likes of which the world hadn't seen since the Time of Rending was building. It was possible the events of the past would repeat themselves, with the Ancients causing devastation on a global scale. Naturally, he was nervous.

do you think?" he asked Granin and the

isn't high enough, but it's getting close. If I were to guess, I'd say that those

He shrugged.

after this, or the one after that? Less than a year is my guess. If we don't have a solution by that time, then

Ancients took matters

Anthony makes it in time," Torrina

eager to meet the Worm in person?" he said, and she thought for a moment before

it meant coming well within eating range of an all-powerful monster. Granin imagined it may be a very moving experience, to see Yarrum with his own eyes. A creature of legend and unfathomable

awed, he thought, not

perhaps the second most ravenous of the Ancients. There would be little point keeping Granin alive, so he'd be

might still be

is to present a new Ancient. That was the task laid on the founders of the cults, and we are running out of time

tier seven," Corun fretted, and Torrina raised a

ant in the history of Pangera, and a mythic monster at that. Considering where he'd started, it was a remarkable journey. In fact, recalling he hadn't even been born amongst his Colony, but in the tunnels by himself, it was beyond a miracle he'd

like nothing we've ever seen before, and the next will be even worse. If you want to train a monster, you couldn't ask for better conditions

below. From their vantage point high in the fortress nest below Roklu, the three had a huge range of view over the plains below. Torrina and Corun leaned forward to see what he was pointing

the landscape as demons rampaged endlessly. As they watched, it didn't die down, it only grew worse, and worse, and

breathed. Not from the smoke,

may need to create filters