History and documentaries have told the world about a recurring reversal. But they either saw it as a superstition or ignored it.
It was like a nightmare to actually witness it today.
The world meets its end, as it did in past centuries.
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Laboured shouts echoed in the smoke-thickened air. Buildings collapsed on humans escaping wrath, shards of rock scattering on the ground. Explosions screamed in the distance like a horror song no one had ever listened to.
Boom!
Fortunately, as survivors would see it, the Ascendants were there to protect them.
Only a few could launch attacks against the mysterious figures coming from the portals around the city.
They moved like phantoms, their black cloaks swirling as they erased lives without hesitation. No one knew where they came from, only that they always appeared when the world was nearing its end. The legends called them the Agents of Fate—unstoppable harbingers of annihilation.