Chapter 78 — THE FINAL ASSAULT

Third POV

The first scream wasn’t human.

It came from the treeline — a guttural, rippling shriek that split through the dawn silence like the world itself was being torn apart. Birds burst into the sky. Wolves lifted their heads in instinctive terror. The air warped. Magic crackled like lightning across the horizon.

Then the snow trembled.

The ground beneath Nightshade shook violently as if something massive was crawling beneath the surface. Warriors ...