The sky trembled.
With a shrill, ear-piercing shriek, the Blood Queen Bee unfurled her monstrous wings. Each flap cleaved the air like a blade, and crimson energy surged around her, distorting the very space with every pulse. The once-verdant forest had become a graveyard, and shattered trees, scorched earth, and mangled corpses painted the battlefield in ruin.
At the edge of a shallow crater, Kaal stood alone.
The broken bodies of his fallen clansmen lay scattered around him, yet his face remained calm. Beneath that calm exterior, however, his blood roared with intensity. Here was the moment he had waited for the chance to show his full strength.
He didn't like hiding his power. And why should he?
His father was the patriarch of the Kilvis Clan. His mother, Bella Darwin, was the Holy Maiden of the Jade Ice Sect. Even if the heavens fell, his parents could hold them up.
