Finally, night stretched its dark blankets across the galaxy, draping the heavens in a velvet shroud. Starlight burned like scattered embers in a cosmic forge, their glow spilling across the horizon, lending a haunting beauty to the battlefield. The wind, restless and rigid, blew as though it had lost its very sense of direction, carrying with it whispers of dread to far-off places. The air itself thickened, suffused with pressure, fear, terror, bloodlust, and raw domination, as if tension had seized the reins of nature itself.

Hildred stood at the forefront, his forehead creased with determination though a lone bead of sweat betrayed the storm within, sliding down his cheek like a confession. Behind him, Lumina lingered close, her heart hammering a war-drum rhythm, her hands trembling faintly from the recoil of her last arrow. Dunstan, Beorn, and Rex formed the rear guard, silent but brimming with unease.

"So what's the plan?" Lumina's voice broke the taut silence, her words almost carried away by the wind.

"You should listen carefully," Hildred replied, his tone hard as tempered steel. "This plan determines how everything proceeds from here." His gaze swept over them, steady and commanding. "I and Beorn will clash head-on with the raging beast. Lumina, you'll rain down cover fire. Rex, your task is to provide support from a distance."

The strategy was still falling from his lips when the heavens themselves seemed to tear apart, an immense light burst forward, cannon-like, howling with unstoppable force. Their surrounding lit up suddenly a result of something unknown. Instinct screamed before thought could catch up.

"Everyone, leap off!" Hildred roared.

In perfect synchronicity, he and Lumina dove left while Dunstan and the others flung themselves right. A heartbeat later, the attack consumed the space they had stood upon, obliterating it into chaos. The blast birthed a cone-shaped tornado of dust and spiraling winds, a monstrous column that clawed upward like a geyser erupting from the bones of the earth.

As the storm of smoke and dust began to subside, Hildred's voice thundered through the haze, his command sharp enough to cut through the chaos:

"Dunstan! You move within our range as rescue support. Let move before it's too late!" Gradually the chaos from the tornado clears

Without waiting, he charged from the left, Beorn surging from the right, both streaking toward the beast like blades of vengeance splitting the night.

Lumina steadied herself, drawing in a long breath before releasing it slow, her composure crystallizing like ice. Her bow shimmered into existence within her left hand, elegant yet deadly. Her right hand pulled the string taut, fingers hooked with purpose, the air itself trembling with her focus.

Then came the storm.

Light spears, gleaming like fragments of falling stars, cascaded forward. Spheres of crystalized water spun into existence, raining downward like shards of a fractured sky. Though not as cataclysmic as the earlier blast, each was honed with lethal promise, every strike capable of reaping life upon contact. From the rear, other beasts surged forth, their roars painting the air with fire and fury. Flames spat molten magma that bubbled like the veins of the earth laid bare, while electric currents slithered outward, serpents of lightning swimming through the atmosphere, snapping hungrily toward the charging celestials.

Attacks glowing, diving through the blanket of darkness like lanterns drifting across rivers, their trails alive with buzzing, cracking, and whining sounds that split the silence every second as they closed in on their targets.

"Heaven's Dominion Fist: Judgment Barrage." Hildred's fists, cloaked in immortal energy, blazed like miniature suns, radiating not just light but the weight of his will. His steps carved sharply forward, each stride echoing with the thunder of intent.

Meanwhile, Beorn's [Celestial Convergence Formation synchronized successfully] panel shimmered into view before his eyes, confirming his bond with the formation. He gripped his sword with both hands, stretching it to his right as though preparing to split the night itself.

"Celestial Convergence: Aqua Compression Blade." At once, the blade fused with a torrent of blue energy, swelling into a massive edge of liquid power, humming with crushing might. The space between them vanished like breath on glass.

Hildred unleashed a storm of rapid strikes, each blow against each attacks burning with heavenly fire. The fists did not merely strike, they carried the aura of divine judgment, each impact falling like the verdict of the stars. With every swing, the barrage grew fiercer, as if the universe itself lent strength to his wrath. His arms quivered under the recoil, muscles screaming, yet his resolve chained his body to the fight, refusing to yield balance or grip.

He leapt into the air, legs spreading to dodge a torrent of molten magma roaring beneath him. Still mid-air, an enormous crystalized water mass plummeted toward his forehead. His eyes widened,trapped, unable to shift his body in time. The judgment of gravity was closing in.

Just as the strike neared, salvation tore across the night.

"Arrow of Frostfire: Frostbite Arrow!" Lumina's bow sang, releasing an arrow of dual flame and frost. It streaked like a comet and collided above Hildred's head, shattering into a storm of shards. The explosion's shockwave hammered him downward, forcing his body into a violent spin. He rolled across the earth, dirt and dust biting into his skin, lessening the crushing impact.

On the other side, Beorn carved through assaults with his immense blade, each slash parting molten flows like a hot knife through waxen seals. One stray energy strike nearly grazed him, kissing his shoulder, but he twisted and deflected with the flat side of his sword.

Then came the lightning like serpent, alive and hissing, danced like a celestial snake weaving through the battlefield, hunting Beorn. He swung his sword to meet it, yet at the final instant, the lightning slipped past, slithering out of reach.

The force of his swing pulled his upper body down, leaving his face staring directly into the oncoming strike. The blinding bolt was mere inches from devouring him when Rex intervened.

Raising his left hand, the brown bracelet on his wrist erupted with an ancient glow, as though veins of the earth itself pulsed within it. His right hand followed, its twin bracelet igniting in unison. With a commanding sweep, he redirected the lightning's fury, bending its roaring current away from Beorn and into the ground far to the right.

The world shook as thunder and earth collided, darkness vanished for a second before returning.

While Dunstan, swift as a flash of lightning, appeared next to Beorn, sweeping him up and carrying him away from the jaws of danger with effortless speed.

Rex's bracelets, gleaming faintly under the shifting light of battle, bore different destinies in each hand. The left, a guardian of gravity, allowed him to insulate any target by wrapping it in his immortal energy, lifting it as though the earth itself had released its claim. The right, however, held dominion, granting him the authority to command, to mobilize the secured target as though they were mere pawns in the theater of his will.

Hildred was already on his feet, the gap between him and the beast shrinking with each heartbeat. Arrows of condensed energy streaked past him, so close they almost brushed against his neck, others skimming the skin of his legs, yet none struck him. Each shaft, though precise, veered away at the last instant, their trajectory deliberate, a ghostly support rising at his back. Every shot was sharper, stronger, more calculated, as if invisible hands guided them.

Beorn, too, surged forward, his strikes fierce yet effortless, cleaving through oncoming assaults with the weight of a seasoned titan. And Rex, unwavering, shielded his comrades, nullifying incoming attacks, redirecting force, making the chaos bend around them. All the while, Dunstan appeared and disappeared like a phantom, carrying Beorn away whenever a strike came too swift, too brutal to withstand.

It was not mere survival, it was harmony forged in battle, every movement a thread woven into the tapestry of war.

Back at the south, where confrontation churned through the crucible of evolution, Nyxander stood watching, his gaze fastened on the spherical Fletch formed from the Primordial beasts. The orb suddenly gave a jagged crack, like the shell of a world splitting open, its once-lustrous surface now withering, looking as though it had been touched by centuries of decay in an instant. The light that crowned it, proud and unyielding a moment ago, flickered once, then vanished, swallowed by the abyss.

From its husk, one Primordial beast collapsed, its colossal body reduced to nothing more than a dried carcass, the skin shriveled, the frame brittle, like a monument long abandoned to the desert sun. It crashed to the earth with a resounding Doom! the very ground shuddered, and dust burst outward in waves, rolling beneath the pale starlight.

Then came another. And another. A rain of titans, falling not with the rage of life but with the silence of death, like debris from mountains torn apart, their massive forms stripped of their ferocity, all crumbling into lifeless husks. Each one decayed, each one brittle, each one a testament to an unseen, merciless power.

When the last of them fell, the field was cleared, not into peace, but revelation. From within the hollow remains emerged an existence, its leg stepping forth first, shaped almost like that of a man, yet nothing of it was human. Gigantic, suffused with purple radiance, its flesh seemed less flesh than condensed energy, each pulse of light clawing away the shadows and illuminating the battlefield as though night itself recoiled in fear.

Nyxander's eyes widened, his breath faltering, his body rooted as if the earth itself shackled him to witness this moment. His mind screamed for reason, but his tongue betrayed him with the only words that could escape.

"What… the hell…"

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