The void split the heavens.
It was more than darkness, it was the absence of everything. Light fled. Sound dissolved. Even the air trembled as the God Engine descended, a being forged in the birth of time and death of stars. It had no face, no eyes, only shifting shadows and a core of blinding energy that beat like a dying star.
Cambria gasped as the wind was ripped from her lungs. Her vision blurred. Around her, the battlefield collapsed into chaos. Both her allies and enemies dropped to their knees, choking, unable to breathe under the crushing weight of the entity's presence.
Seraphine stood alone beneath the void, arms raised, smiling like a goddess returned to her throne.
"I am not your queen," she whispered. "I am your extinction."
