Chapter 365: Four horns?!!
The fusion attack erupted from Storm’s maw like the birth of a new star.
Lightning and ice didn’t just combine—they transformed into something that had never existed before, a spiral of frozen electricity that screamed as it tore through the atmosphere. The beam was as wide as a city block and moved faster than thought itself, carving a path to Kruel that left the air itself changed in its wake.
When it struck the ground, the world ended.
Not metaphorically. For a radius of twenty miles in every direction, existence simply stopped being what it was and became something else. The temperature didn’t drop gradually—it fell like a stone thrown from a cliff, plummeting from desert heat to subzero in the span of a heartbeat. Every molecule of moisture in the air crystallized instantly, creating a blizzard of ice shards that fell like glittering rain.
**CRACK!**
The ground froze so fast that the molecular structure of the rock itself changed, becoming something harder than steel and colder than the void between stars. Trees didn’t just die—they shattered like glass sculptures, their frozen fragments adding to the storm of debris that whirled through the air.
Miles away, Lucas felt the wall of cold rushing toward them like a tsunami made of winter itself. His hands moved without conscious thought, electricity erupting from his body in a protective dome that crackled and sparked as it fought to hold back forces that could remake the laws of physics.
"Get behind me!" he shouted to Cassandra, but she was already moving, pressing herself against his back as the world outside their electrical shelter became a frozen hell.
Ice crystals the size of dinner plates hammered against Lucas’s barrier, each impact sending shockwaves through his nervous system. The cold was so intense that even through his electrical protection, Cassandra could feel it trying to steal the warmth from her bones.
"Jesus Christ," she whispered, watching through the crackling energy as the landscape transformed into something that belonged on an alien world. "What kind of monster did Noah send us?"
Lucas gritted his teeth, pouring more power into his shield as another wave of frozen debris slammed into them. "The kind that might actually be able to win this fight," he said. Then, after a moment of silence broken only by the howling of supernatural wind, he added, "Cassie, I need to tell you something. About Noah."
"What about him?" she asked, but her voice was distant, distracted by the chaos outside their shelter.