Kaiser didn't waste another heartbeat. With a breath that steadied the thunder inside him, he vanished from the ground, flickering straight toward Astharothis. His shadow blades gleamed under the dim, broken moonlight. The battle wasn't over—not until the demon fell.
But Astharothis was ready.
With a savage roar that shook the heavens, the demon unleashed the full extent of his kingly power. A storm of hellfire erupted around him, laced with dark lightning that scorched the earth. The massive demonic swords that once floated in disciplined orbit around him now spiraled in chaos, forming a spinning wall of destruction.
"You're too late, shadowborn!" Astharothis bellowed. "Now behold the full might of a Astharothis!"
