Chapter 97: Alex vs The Earth Patriarch (17)
Earth Clan Estate — Moments Before the Battle
The estate, once buzzing with the quiet urgency of evacuation, now stood frozen under the crushing weight of dread. A suffocating silence clung to the air, heavy as the moment before a final heartbeat.
Nyxara lay still on the same ground Alex had left her. The fading light traced along the obsidian stripes of her massive frame. Her golden eyes remained open—unblinking, fixed on the distant horizon.
On the battlefield.
Where Alex had gone.
Where the storm had begun.
Beside her, four thunder-forged cages crackled faintly—her creation. They hovered just above the terrace, each containing a figure: Lady Nandi, Lady Lucy, Neferura, and Menkara. As Alex had instructed.
A few minutes earlier...
Beneath the palace, in the eastern corridor leading to the emergency bunker, the inner circle of the Earth Clan had gathered. The upper levels had already been secured with civilians and servants. Only the core members remained: Lady Nandi, her daughter Neferura, Lady Lucy, and her children Talibah and Menkara, as well as Thutmose and the rest of the elders. They decided to stay behind to monitor the beast.
They were moving swiftly toward the fortified section of the bunker reserved for the ruling bloodline when—
BOOM.