15 HERALD OF DEATH Date: May 28, 2027 Time: 8:03 AM Primary Location: Adamawa State, Nigeria Global Status: Necrotic Catastrophe Phase The emerald eye opened fully beneath the battlefield.
And for a moment, Earth itself seemed to forget how to breathe.
A wave of necrotic pressure rolled outward across Adamawa like an invisible tsunami.
Frozen mountain ranges shattered into drifting debris.
Dimensional fractures overhead widened with groaning distortions.
The undead army screamed—not in pain, but in worship.
The sensation spreading through the atmosphere no longer resembled corruption.
Corruption still implied life being twisted.
This felt different.
Empty.
Like the concept of death had gained consciousness.
Above the battlefield, AETERNUS instinctively retreated several hundred meters through the air.
Blue frost flames spiraled violently around his massive crimson dragon body while Purple distortions rotated behind him in unstable rings.
For the first time since his transformation, his instincts no longer pushed him toward battle.
They pushed him toward survival.
Run.
The warning repeated through every part of his bloodline.
Below him, the earth continued splitting apart.
Entire underground caverns collapsed inward as colossal skeletal structures emerged from beneath the frozen wasteland.
Gigantic ribs pierced through glaciers like the remains of a dead god clawing its way back into existence.
Necrotic chains larger than skyscrapers dragged across the battlefield with deafening metallic groans.
And kneeling before the emerging entity— the Necrotic King lowered its crowned head respectfully.
“Behold,” it said softly, emerald fire flickering within its hollow eyes.
“…the Grave Sovereign.” Location: Nigeria Shelter Zone The emergency shelter shook hard enough to crack concrete walls.
Several projection screens burst apart from mana overload.
Civilians screamed as emergency lights flickered red throughout the underground complex.
Julie Olaniyi immediately pulled Damilola against her chest while nearby healers tried stabilizing unconscious survivors collapsing from pressure exposure alone.
Across the shelter, panic spread unevenly.
Some people cried openly.
Others sat frozen in silence.
A few simply stared at the projection screens with hollow expressions, too exhausted to process more fear.
Near the western wall, an elderly man in a torn military jacket quietly whispered prayers beneath his breath while clutching an old photograph of his family.
Nearby, a teenage boy with a bandaged arm stared at AETERNUS on the screen with wide, trembling eyes.
His system flickered weakly before him.
NAME: CHINEDU OKAFOR RACE: HUMAN RANK: F-RANK LOW LEVEL: 11 AFFINITY: METAL HP: 210/340 MP: 91/140 The boy swallowed nervously.
“…Can someone really fight that thing?” Nobody answered him.
Not because they wanted to ignore him.
Because nobody knew anymore.
At the center of the shelter, Mayowa suddenly froze as her own system appeared.
NAME: MAYOWA OLANIYI RACE: HUMAN RANK: D-RANK PEAK LEVEL: 89 AFFINITY: MOON Her gaze lingered on the battlefield afterward.
For weeks, her growth had felt extraordinary.
Now it felt microscopic.
Beside her, Tomi quietly stared at her own status window.
NAME: TOMI OLANIYI RACE: HUMAN RANK: C-RANK LOW LEVEL: 114 AFFINITY: WATER Tomi slowly clenched her fist.
Not because she feared dying.
Because she hated feeling helpless.
She could manipulate ocean currents powerful enough to drown monsters.
Yet compared to the creatures fighting in Adamawa— she still felt small.
David noticed the expression immediately.
And that frightened him almost as much as the battlefield itself.
Because he understood what constant catastrophe was doing to humanity psychologically.
People were beginning to measure their worth through combat ability alone.
Location: Nigeria Battlefield The Grave Sovereign finally rose completely from beneath the earth.
It towered over entire mountain ranges.
Its colossal skeletal frame radiated ancient decay older than human civilization itself.
Vast emerald flames burned inside the cavities between its ribs.
Gigantic black chains wrapped endlessly around its body like restraints placed upon something that should never have existed freely.
Its crown resembled an entire necropolis forged from black bone and dead kingdoms.
The moment it fully emerged, every undead creature across the battlefield screamed in ecstatic reverence.
AETERNUS’s bloodline synchronization surged violently.
PRIMORDIAL DRAGON BLOODLINE SYNCHRONIZATION: 31% Pain exploded through his body immediately afterward.
Several crimson scales cracked apart.
Frost flames spiraled wildly out of control around his wings.
His heartbeat thundered hard enough to shake nearby ice formations.
The Grave Sovereign lowered its enormous gaze toward him.
Then it spoke.
Its voice sounded like countless dead souls layered together beneath collapsing worlds.
“Another dragon.” The battlefield trembled.
AETERNUS narrowed his glowing sapphire eyes despite the pressure crushing against his instincts.
“…What are you?” The Sovereign’s skeletal jaw curved slowly upward.
“Death remembered.” Then it attacked.
It did not move like a giant.
It moved like a disaster.
One colossal skeletal hand descended instantly.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
Entire frozen regions vanished beneath the impact.
Glaciers erupted into airborne debris while necrotic shockwaves tore across the battlefield.
AETERNUS barely escaped using VOID FROST STEP.
The moment he reappeared— gigantic necrotic chains erupted toward him from multiple directions simultaneously.
Layered attacks.
Predictive attacks.
The Sovereign fought with terrifying intelligence.
AETERNUS retaliated immediately.
“PURPLE.” Hundreds of rotating distortions erupted across the battlefield.
Reality fractured repeatedly as enormous sections of the Sovereign’s skeletal arm vanished into spatial collapse.
But necrotic flames surged across the damage almost instantly.
Regeneration.
Ancient regeneration.
The Sovereign laughed softly.
Nearby glaciers shattered from the sound alone.
Location: Atlantic Rift Zone The gathered evolved beings watched the battle in tense silence.
No one looked relaxed anymore.
Not after witnessing the Grave Sovereign.
Solara Ignis narrowed her fiery eyes while phoenix flames drifted around her body like molten feathers.
“That creature shouldn’t exist inside a lower realm.” Raizen Voltaris no longer smiled.
Velrya Morrigan crossed her arms quietly, crimson butterflies circling around her in uneasy patterns.
Then another presence arrived.
The surrounding air filled with green luminescence as a young woman descended slowly toward the Rift Zone.
Silver antlers extended elegantly from her head.
Small flowers bloomed briefly in the air around her footsteps before withering from dimensional instability.
NAME: ELUNARIA SYLVE RACE: FIRST NEW GENERATION WORLD DRYAD RANK: B-RANK MID LEVEL: 287 The moment she appeared, nearby nature-affinity users instinctively relaxed slightly.
But Elunaria herself looked horrified.
She pressed one hand against her chest while sensing the planet directly through her affinity.
“…Earth is in pain.” Lunaria Veil looked toward her immediately.
“What happens if the portals keep expanding?” Elunaria hesitated.
Then answered honestly.
“Eventually the planet’s mana circulation could collapse.” Silence spread afterward.
Because every evolved being there understood what that meant.
World death.
Not extinction.
Something worse.
A dead world could no longer evolve.
Location: United States Deep beneath Washington D.C., emergency military bunkers operated continuously without rest.
Large holographic projections displayed battlefronts across Earth while scientists, generals, and awakened advisors argued over overlapping casualty reports.
The room smelled of exhaustion.
Coffee.
Sweat.
Fear.
President Donald Trump stood silently near the central projection screen watching AETERNUS fight the Grave Sovereign.
One exhausted scientist finally spoke.
“If that entity fully stabilizes in Earth’s realm, current casualty projections become irrelevant.” Another advisor snapped back immediately.
“We should deploy the S-Rank prototypes now.” “And destabilize the dimensional fractures further?” someone shouted.
Arguments erupted again.
But Trump barely listened.
His attention remained fixed on the blood-covered dragon fighting alone against a creature larger than cities.
After several moments, he quietly muttered: “…That kid’s carrying the whole damn planet.” No one disagreed.
Location: Lagos, Nigeria Rain fell steadily across refugee districts built from emergency shelters and collapsed shipping containers.
Inside one overcrowded medical tent, exhausted volunteers treated wounded civilians beneath unstable mana lamps.
A nurse named Amina Bello carefully wrapped bandages around a little girl’s burned hands while trying not to look at the battlefield broadcast nearby.
But everyone kept glancing toward it anyway.
Even children.
Outside the tent, frightened civilians huddled around damaged screens showing AETERNUS fighting the Sovereign.
Some prayed.
Others argued quietly about whether humanity should flee underground permanently.
One man suddenly whispered: “If that dragon dies…
we’re finished.” Nobody told him he was wrong.
Location: Nigeria Battlefield The battle escalated further.
The Grave Sovereign constantly shifted combat styles.
One moment it overwhelmed AETERNUS through sheer scale.
The next, it manipulated necrotic force with terrifying precision.
The Necrotic King attacked alongside it seamlessly, coordinating undead armies while exploiting every opening.
AETERNUS adapted continuously in response.
Blue frost flames froze incoming chains before impact.
Red pressure redirected colossal skeletal strikes.
Purple distortions erased entire battlefield sectors.
But slowly— he was still losing ground.
Then the Necrotic King struck from behind while the Sovereign attacked from above simultaneously.
A perfect layered assault.
VOID FROST STEP activated instantly.
AETERNUS vanished sideways through fractured space— but the Sovereign predicted it.
Its colossal skeletal tail slammed into him mid-transition.
CRAAAAAAASH!!
AETERNUS crashed through multiple frozen mountain ranges.
Blood scattered across the battlefield.
One wing bent unnaturally afterward.
The undead army roared triumphantly.
Then— silence spread.
Because AETERNUS slowly stood back up.
Blue frost flames intensified around him.
Purple distortions spread farther across the heavens.
And deep within his bloodline— something finally cracked open.
PRIMORDIAL DRAGON AUTHORITY PARTIALLY AWAKENING The world trembled instantly.
Far above Earth, the ancient crimson dragon eye appeared again beyond the dimensional fractures.
Watching.
Recognizing him.
And for the first time— the Grave Sovereign stopped smiling.
Date: May 28, 2027 Time: 8:37 AM Location: Earth The atmosphere changed instantly.
Not gradually.
Like reality itself had acknowledged a higher existence.
The frost flames surrounding AETERNUS no longer resembled elemental fire.
They looked like fragments of living stars burning with absolute cold.
Purple distortions spread endlessly through the heavens.
Red pressure bent the atmosphere around him unnaturably.
Then— AETERNUS opened his eyes.
CRAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!
An unimaginable wave of cold erupted across Nigeria.
Necrotic storms froze mid-motion.
Undead armies became silent statues.
Even dimensional fractures slowed briefly.
The Grave Sovereign’s emerald flames flickered violently.
Because something impossible had happened.
Death itself had been interrupted.
Location: Earth Every mana-sensitive being felt it simultaneously.
A pulse.
Ancient.
Overwhelming.
Draconic.
Across the planet: storms slowed, oceans stilled, monsters panicked, and portals destabilized violently.
Inside Seoul, hunters stopped fighting momentarily as frost spread across shattered streets unnaturally.
In Brazil, entire ocean currents shifted direction beneath Nox Mariner’s feet.
In Egypt, Raziel Anubis looked skyward while the surrounding desert suddenly fell silent.
Even the gigantic armored entity beyond the dimensional fracture paused briefly.
Because every powerful being recognized the same terrifying truth.
A true authority had awakened.
Location: Nigeria Battlefield The Grave Sovereign attacked first.
Not arrogantly anymore.
Seriously.
Millions of necrotic chains erupted simultaneously while undead armies surged forward once more.
But AETERNUS moved differently now.
Calmer.
Sharper.
The battlefield itself seemed unable to contain his movement.
VOID FROST STEP evolved instinctively beneath the influence of his authority.
The next moment— he appeared directly before the Sovereign’s face.
Blue frost flames condensed silently around his claws.
Then he slashed downward.
SHRRRRRRRKKKKK!!
The Sovereign’s gigantic skull split partially apart.
Necrotic flames exploded violently outward.
The undead army screamed together.
Then the Necrotic King attacked from behind.
AETERNUS did not turn.
Red pressure erupted backward automatically.
BOOOOOOOOM!!
The king crashed across the battlefield.
Fluid combat.
No wasted motion.
Only instinct refined into absolute lethality.
The Grave Sovereign roared.
Massive skeletal weapons formed from condensed death mana above the battlefield.
AETERNUS slowly raised his head.
Purple energy formed around him silently.
Not hundreds.
Thousands.
The Sovereign finally understood.
Fear appeared inside its emerald gaze.
“PURPLE.” BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
For several seconds— the world disappeared.
Space shattered apart.
Frozen storms consumed the battlefield.
Gigantic portions of the Sovereign’s body vanished instantly.
The Necrotic King’s throne disintegrated.
Undead armies collapsed into ash.
Even the dimensional fractures above Nigeria imploded violently.
The explosion illuminated half the planet.
Date: May 28, 2027 Time: 9:04 AM Location: Earth Silence followed.
Communication systems failed globally beneath overwhelming mana interference.
Across Earth, billions waited.
Praying.
Fearing.
Watching darkened skies.
Then slowly— the frozen storm over Nigeria began clearing.
One figure remained standing.
AETERNUS.
Blood covered his body.
One wing hung partially destroyed.
Several scales remained shattered.
His aura fluctuated unstably.
But he was alive.
Below him, the Grave Sovereign collapsed gradually into necrotic dust.
The undead army crumbled afterward one corpse at a time, like broken puppets finally released from invisible strings.
And across the world— humanity understood something terrifying.
They had survived.
Barely.
Location: Atlantic Rift Zone The hidden 200 watched in silence.
No one celebrated.
Because the battle revealed a truth none of them could ignore anymore.
If AETERNUS could become this powerful after only a partial awakening— what would happen later?
Some felt inspired.
Others felt threatened.
A few felt jealous.
And quietly, almost invisibly— fractures between the evolved races began deepening.
Location: Nigeria Battlefield AETERNUS slowly returned to humanoid form.
White hair streaked with crimson and blue moved beneath freezing winds.
Blood and frost covered his pale skin.
The dragon-shaped marking across his back glowed faintly beneath torn clothing.
He stared across the ruined battlefield silently.
Entire regions had vanished.
Millions were displaced.
Countless people still died despite victory.
And deep inside himself— his instincts still hungered for more battle.
That realization unsettled him more than the Grave Sovereign ever had.
Then his system appeared once again.
WARNING PRIMORDIAL DRAGON AUTHORITY DETECTED BLOODLINE SYNCHRONIZATION: 41% NEW TITLE ACQUIRED: HERALD OF THE FROZEN END AETERNUS stared at the screen for several silent seconds.
Then slowly looked upward toward the dimensional fractures still scattered across the heavens.
The invasion was far from over.
Because beyond Earth— ancient civilizations had finally noticed him.
And some of them were already moving toward the planet.