Chapter 45: Home
[: 3rd POV :]
"Is this... the final location?"
The words left his lips in a whisper, lost to the roaring winds that howled across the darkened heavens.
The sky above was veiled in seething black clouds, rippling with lightning that cracked like divine fury.
And there, suspended amidst the storm, floated a lone figure.
Daniel.
No longer could he be called mortal.
No longer did his form reflect the fragile bounds of human limitation.
His presence was something... else—an unknowable force veiled in flesh, draped in gold, cloaked in silence.
The world bent subtly around him, and even the raging sky dared not touch him.
His gaze, calm yet heavy, bore down upon the endless expanse beneath him—an entire territory writhing with monstrous life.
From towering behemoths to grotesque aberrations, the land was infested with beings that had once made this continent untouchable.