"Why..."
Jayden's voice trembled as he struggled to catch his breath.
"...Why did you do this?"
Every word hurt.
His body was covered in cuts and bruises, his armor cracked in several places. Blood dripped from the corner of his mouth before falling onto the shattered white stone beneath him.
Even standing had become difficult.
Still...
His eyes never left the figure floating high above.
Below them...
Edenis Raphiel had become almost unrecognizable.
The legendary floating archipelago, the holiest place in the world, untouched by war for thousands of years, had been reduced to ruins.
Magnificent buildings had collapsed into mountains of rubble.
Sacred gardens burned beneath purple flames.
Entire districts had simply ceased to exist, swallowed by craters that scarred the floating islands.
Screams echoed from every direction.
The sky itself seemed darker.
And the one responsible...
Floated silently above it all.
Like a specter.
Like death itself.
For a moment...
