Few hours ago
~~~~
Lang Yao stood at the edge of the cliff, clenching his jaw so tightly it felt like his teeth would shatter.
He had come here with a simple plan.
Throw the mutated Fire Wolf pup's corpse near the forest that bordered the Dawn Base. Stir up some chaos. Let a few mutated beasts gather and maybe push them toward Liora's gate. Just enough to weaken her. Just enough to prove that base of hers wasn't as invincible as everyone claimed.
But what he saw now was not chaos.
It was destruction.
Beasts. Hundreds of them.
No—thousands.
From every direction, a black tide of mutated creatures surged toward the Dawn Base like a flood. Their eyes glowed red with madness, their claws tearing through earth and bark as they stampeded. Some were beasts he had never even seen before. Massive, scaled creatures with tusks. Others flew overhead, screeching like banshees.
Lang Yao's face filled with fear.
"This... isn't right," he muttered.
