Ash drifted from the heavens like grey snow, soft and silent, blanketing the skeletal remains of Vedangiri. The air was thick with the scent of scorched stone and burned iron. Heat still radiated off the shattered earth, waves shimmering like ghostly mirages. The city was a graveyard now—once proud, now ruined.
In the center of it all, Aamir stood motionless.
Beneath his boots, blood-soaked rubble crunched.
Before him, the Abyssal Thornfiend lay still, its enormous carapace split open like a crushed insect, violet ichor steaming from the gashes they had carved into it. Its many eyes were glazed over, its thorny limbs twitching no more.
It was done.
They had won.
A soft chime echoed in Aamir's mind, light and metallic like wind chimes in a storm.
[Level Up: Level 23]
[You have defeated a Monarch-class Beast]
[New Stat Unlocked: SANITY - 98%]
[Bloodline Purity Increased: 4%]
Kunal dropped backward into the dust, arms spread wide, breath heaving.
