The Heavenly Demon of Terror

Samuel's POV

Everyone had gone their separate ways — Roselle and Nocturne to report back to Nerezza, Owen to face his past, and Henry... probably off drinking somewhere trying to look cool.

I was left standing in the middle of the battlefield, cracks in the earth still steaming from our clash with Ezra. The silence felt unnatural after all that chaos.

I crouched, then pushed off the ground with a burst of power — rock and dust blasted outward as I launched into the sky like a damn cannonball. Hulk-style.

"Damn," I muttered, soaring through the clouds. "That was a good fight. Real sweat, real pain, real blood... Haven't felt that alive in a while."

I landed with a seismic crack atop a jagged cliff overlooking the wastelands. My knuckles popped as I stretched.

"But now what? Where the hell can I test my strength next?"

And then it happened — a sharp chime, followed by a wave of golden glyphs materializing before me.

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[SYSTEM NOTIFICATION]

New World Quest Unlocked